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Religion Stats: compare key data on Netherlands & Sweden

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STAT Netherlands Sweden HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 33
Ranked 48th.
40
Ranked 39th. 21% more than Netherlands
Christian > Mormon > Members 9,247
Ranked 51st.
9,404
Ranked 49th. 2% more than Netherlands
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 33%
Ranked 35th.
86%
Ranked 6th. 3 times more than Netherlands
Islam > Percentage Muslim 6%
Ranked 84th. 50% more than Sweden
4%
Ranked 92nd.
Islam in Europe > Muslim population 946,000
Ranked 3rd. 6 times more than Sweden
149,000
Ranked 9th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 30,728
Ranked 34th. 36% more than Sweden
22,561
Ranked 43th.
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 5.5%
Ranked 86th. 12% more than Sweden
4.9%
Ranked 89th.
Muslim > Muslim population 914,000
Ranked 74th. 2 times more than Sweden
451,000
Ranked 87th.
Religions Roman Catholic 30%, Dutch Reformed 11%, Calvinist 6%, other Protestant 3%, Muslim 5.8%, other 2.2%, none 42% Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%
Religions > All Roman Catholic 31%, Dutch Reformed 13%, Calvinist 7%, Muslim 5.5%, other 2.5%, none 41% (2002) Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 24.5%
Ranked 136th. 48% more than Sweden
16.5%
Ranked 142nd.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 75.5%
Ranked 6th.
83%
Ranked 1st. 10% more than Netherlands
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 4,507
Ranked 105th. 63% more than Sweden
2,767
Ranked 121st.
State religion > Church Dutch Reformed Church Church of Sweden
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.277
Ranked 131st.
0.308
Ranked 127th. 11% more than Netherlands
Jews 30,000
Ranked 23th. 67% more than Sweden
18,000
Ranked 27th.
Hindus 148,055
Ranked 28th. 17 times more than Sweden
8,940.5
Ranked 53th.
Secularism and atheism > Does not believe in spirit, God or life force 30%
Ranked 4th.
34%
Ranked 3rd. 13% more than Netherlands
Religious diversity score 0.722
Ranked 19th. 3 times more than Sweden
0.234
Ranked 157th.
Hindu percent of population 0.89%
Ranked 21st. 9 times more than Sweden
0.099%
Ranked 39th.
State religion > Denomination Reformed Lutheran
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 1.9
Ranked 89th.
2.53
Ranked 66th. 33% more than Netherlands
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 5.41 million
Ranked 13th.
7.74 million
Ranked 9th. 43% more than Netherlands
Jews per 1000 1.91
Ranked 24th.
2.03
Ranked 23th. 6% more than Netherlands
Secularism and atheism > Believes there is a god 28%
Ranked 22nd. 56% more than Sweden
18%
Ranked 26th.
Secularism and atheism > Believes in spirit or life force 39%
Ranked 8th.
45%
Ranked 4th. 15% more than Netherlands
Hindus per thousand people 8.87
Ranked 30th. 9 times more than Sweden
0.946
Ranked 61st.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 0.635
Ranked 16th.
1.76
Ranked 7th. 3 times more than Netherlands
Christian > Mormon > Temples 1
Ranked 12th. The same as Sweden
1
Ranked 28th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 10,606
Ranked 10th.
16,609
Ranked 6th. 57% more than Netherlands
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 2.1 million
Ranked 11th.
6.7 million
Ranked 3rd. 3 times more than Netherlands
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 77
Ranked 19th.
192
Ranked 8th. 2 times more than Netherlands
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 126.19
Ranked 9th.
714.51
Ranked 4th. 6 times more than Netherlands
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 115
Ranked 16th. 15% more than Sweden
100
Ranked 18th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 4.61
Ranked 20th.
20.32
Ranked 10th. 4 times more than Netherlands
State religion > Disestablishment date 1795 2000

SOURCES: Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); Wikipedia: Protestantism by country (Top sixty countries by number and percentage of Protestants); International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; Miller, Tracy, ed (October 2009) (PDF).ÿ apping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World?s Muslim Population.ÿPew Research Center. pp.ÿ31?32. Retrieved 2009-11-11.; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Wikipedia: Islam by country (Table) ("Muslim Population by Country" . The Future of the Global Muslim Population . Pew Research Center . Retrieved 22 December 2011 .); CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006; Wikipedia: Importance of religion by country (Countries); adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004; Wikipedia: State religion (Established churches and former state churches); adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381; Wikipedia: List of countries ranked by ethnic and cultural diversity level (Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fractionalization) (Natalka Patsiurko, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall (2012). "Measuring cultural diversity: ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization in the OECD" . Ethnic and Racial Studies 35 (2): 195–217 . Retrieved September 13, 2012 .); watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.;

Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381

; Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics (Caribbean); http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics; Wikipedia: Lutheranism by region (Countries with more than 500,000 Lutherans) ([1] The Lutheran World Federation 2010 Membership Figures); Wikipedia: Lutheranism by region (Countries with more than 500,000 Lutherans) ([1] The Lutheran World Federation 2010 Membership Figures). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: Quakers (Africa) (Nuttall, Geoffrey (1955). "Early Quakerism in the Netherlands: Its wider context" . The Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association 44 (1): 3–18. Gragg, Larry (2009). The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826218476 . Friends World Committee for Consultation (2007) 'Finding Quakers around the World http://www.fwccamericas.org/publications/images/fwcc_map_2007_sm.gif, )

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