Given a family language of religions, the religious distance between two countries is defined as the expected normalized tree distance between the religions of two individuals randomly drawn from the populations of those two countries.
The religious distance data can be downloaded here:
Comma-Separated Values (.csv)
Dataset Format:
Data type: panel.
Number of countries covered: 237.
Number of dyads: 56,169.
Years: 1900, 1970, 2000, 2015, 2020
Variables included:
Religious Distance (weighted)