KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 — Religious restrictions in Malaysia have dwindled over the years, a recent study on 198 countries by Washington-based Pew Research Center released last week has shown.

Measured by two indices called the Government Restrictions Index (GR) and Social Hostilities Index (SHI), the most recent data of Malaysia in 2021 showed that the country scored 7.7 and 3.3 in both respectively.