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There is more than one index of religious freedom published, but I'm curious if another dimension of state involvement in religious life has been quantified, namely how much state support religious groups get (e.g. financial, either direct like subsidies or through tax reliefs etc.) Is there an index of this latter kind?

I did find one paper (well, book chapter) which at least taxonomizes the support in EU countries:

three different models of active state support for religion will be examined in a critical way: the Belgian system of fixed compulsory taxes; the Italian system of mandatory religiously-oriented taxes; and the German system of voluntary religious taxes. Within this elaboration, particular attention will be given to state subsidies for (institutionalized) religion, for faith-based schools and for religious education. [...]

I haven't read the full text, but the summary doesn't hint to a index being constructed. Also, I'm not sure of the taxonomy/separation proposed is very useful because another paper (which has a section on state subsidies) notes

In a lot of countries, there exist various forms of government aid to religious communities. In France, the government is the owner of many church buildings and puts these buildings at the disposal of religious communities. It happens, as well, that governments back the construction of a church or a mosque. In Germany, the tax department collects the so-called church tax from the members of the denominations recognized under public law. Normal tax law sanctions apply. This church tax is an 8 percent surcharge above the tax on wages. This regulation results in the national religious communities in Germany being among the richest religious communities in Europe.

In Belgium, since 1830, government not only pays the maintenance of church buildings but priests, reverends, and rabbis receive a state salary as well. [...]

So I guess it's rather difficult to quantify in a single index the various forms of state support for religion, but nonetheless, has anyone proposed such an index?

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As a not very satisfactory answer, Pew has published a rather coarse index, which scores support on a few dimensions (religious education, religious property and "other activities") and whether the funding goes only to the official/favored state religion. Alas, this methodology excludes from consideration countries that provide some support for all religions but have no official/favored one (like France, Germany or Belgium). Also on this level of coarseness, the UK is on par with (ahem) Sudan.

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