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Religion Stats: compare key data on China & India

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STAT China India HISTORY
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 35%
Ranked 8th. 18 times more than India
1.9%
Ranked 18th.
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 34
Ranked 45th.
40
Ranked 40th. 18% more than China
Christian > Mormon > Members 10,500
Ranked 48th.
10,958
Ranked 46th. 4% more than China
Christianity > Christians 46.27 million
Ranked 2nd. 75% more than India
26.4 million
Ranked 5th.
Christianity > Percent Christian 3.5%
Ranked 30th. 52% more than India
2.3%
Ranked 32nd.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 3%
Ranked 99th.
13.4%
Ranked 72nd. 4 times more than China
Major religion(s) Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 1.8%
Ranked 111th.
14.4%
Ranked 66th. 8 times more than China
Muslim > Muslim population 23.31 million
Ranked 18th.
217.29 million
Ranked 2nd. 9 times more than China
Religions Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%; <i>note:</i> officially atheist Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%
Religions > All Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2% Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
Religions > Muslim 1%
Ranked 97th.
13.4%
Ranked 60th. 13 times more than China
Religious diversity score 0.664
Ranked 38th. 2 times more than India
0.326
Ranked 141st.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 338,277
Ranked 12th.
917,207
Ranked 3rd. 3 times more than China
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.261
Ranked 134th.
0.826
Ranked 104th. 3 times more than China
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 95
Ranked 14th.
712
Ranked 10th. 7 times more than China
Christian > Protestant > Quakers per million people 0.0721
Ranked 16th.
0.614
Ranked 13th. 9 times more than China

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; 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 .); 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: 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, ); 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, ). 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.

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