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Russia

Russia Religion Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 99 2014 29th out of 175
Christian > Mormon > Members 21,709 2014 33th out of 195
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 41 2014 13th out of 43
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 58.19 million 2014 1st out of 43
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 38.52 2014 1st out of 43
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 91,690 2005 1st out of 1
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 0.641 2005 1st out of 1
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 2,047 2005 1st out of 1
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 14.3 2005 1st out of 1
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Av bible studies 122,936 2014 3rd out of 25
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 13 2007 25th out of 33
Christianity > Christians 27.73 million 2014 3rd out of 45
Christianity > Percent Christian 19.5% 2014 9th out of 45
Hindu percent of population 0.043% 2011 45th out of 49
Hindus 60,792 2011 37th out of 94
Hindus per thousand people 0.425 2011 75th out of 94
Islam > Percentage Muslim 15% 2004 68th out of 167
Jehovahs Witnesses 142,439 2002 9th out of 177
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 0.98 2002 111th out of 158
Jews 550,000 1998 4th out of 89
Jews per 1000 3.74 1998 18th out of 86
Major religion(s) Christianity, Islam 2013
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 11.7% 2014 72nd out of 184
Muslim > Muslim population 16.38 million 2014 21st out of 177
Religions Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2%; note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule 2006
Religions > All Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) 2006
Religions > Note estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule 2002
Religious diversity score 0.44 2001 114th out of 214
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 33% 2014 127th out of 143
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 60.5% 2014 19th out of 143
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 58,299 2004 42nd out of 230
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.405 2004 121st out of 200
State religion > Church Russian Orthodox Church 2014
State religion > Denomination Eastern Orthodox 2014
State religion > Established churches and former state churches > Disestablished 1917 1917

SOURCES: Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); Wikipedia: Orthodoxy by country (Statistics); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics; 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: Jehovah's Witnesses by country (Asia); 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, ); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; 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.; International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; 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; 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.; 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: 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 .); Wikipedia: Importance of religion by country (Countries); adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004; 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.; Wikipedia: State religion (Established churches and former state churches); Wikipedia: State religion

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Russia Religion Profiles (Subcategories)

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