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Europe > Albania > Religion

ALBANIAN RELIGION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Catholic > Diocesan priests 43 [103rd of 143]
Catholic > Total Priests 133 [93rd of 149]
Catholics 493,000 [84th of 140]
Catholics as percentage 13.32 [77th of 150]
Islam > Number of Muslim 320,000 [62nd of 67]
Islam > Percentage Muslim 70% [40th of 168]
Islam > Population 2,494,178 [54th of 165]
Islam > Shia 80,000 [50th of 67]
Islam > Sunni 240,000 [64th of 67]
Jehovahs Witnesses 2,708 [95th of 178]
Muslim 10 % [54th of 66]
Protestantism > By country > Protestants 8,191 [148th of 167]
Protestantism > By country > Protestants > % Protestant 0.23 % [150th of 163]
Religions
Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%; note: percentages are estimates; there are no available current statistics on religious affiliation; all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania began allowing private religious practice
Religions > All
Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%
Religions > Muslim 70 % [35th of 100]
Religions > Roman Catholic 10 % [86th of 96]
Roman Catholicism > By country > Roman Catholicism > % Catholic 13.32 % [85th of 170]
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 279 [175th of 232]
State religion > Established churches and former state churches > Denomination none since independence

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SOURCES: Catholic Hierarchy.org; Wikipedia: Demographics of Islam ; International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; CIA World Factbook; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; Wikipedia: Protestantism by country ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; Wikipedia: Roman Catholicism by country ; adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004; Wikipedia: State religion

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Albania, Republic of Albania, Republika e Shqiperise, Shqiperia

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