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Religion Stats: compare key data on China & South Korea

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STAT China South Korea HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 472.36 million
Ranked 1st. 26 times more than South Korea
17.87 million
Ranked 3rd.
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 35%
Ranked 8th.
36.5%
Ranked 7th. 4% more than China
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 34
Ranked 45th.
128
Ranked 24th. 4 times more than China
Christian > Mormon > Members 10,500
Ranked 48th.
85,628
Ranked 17th. 8 times more than China
Christianity > Christians 46.27 million
Ranked 2nd. 3 times more than South Korea
14.38 million
Ranked 6th.
Christianity > Percent Christian 3.5%
Ranked 30th.
29.2%
Ranked 7th. 8 times more than China

Islam > Percentage Muslim 3%
Ranked 99th. 75 times more than South Korea
0.04%
Ranked 156th.
Major religion(s) Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism Buddhism, Christianity; nearly half of adults profess no religion
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 1.8%
Ranked 111th. 9 times more than South Korea
0.2%
Ranked 159th.
Muslim > Muslim population 23.31 million
Ranked 18th. 311 times more than South Korea
75,000
Ranked 118th.
Religions Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%; <i>note:</i> officially atheist Christian 26.3% (Protestant 19.7%, Roman Catholic 6.6%), Buddhist 23.2%, other or unknown 1.3%, none 49.3%
Religions > All Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2% no affiliation 46%, Christian 26%, Buddhist 26%, Confucianist 1%, other 1%
Religious diversity score 0.664
Ranked 38th. 1% more than South Korea
0.66
Ranked 41st.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 338,277
Ranked 12th. 86% more than South Korea
182,070
Ranked 25th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.261
Ranked 134th.
3.79
Ranked 70th. 15 times more than China
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 95
Ranked 14th. 8 times more than South Korea
12
Ranked 17th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers per million people 0.0721
Ranked 16th.
0.247
Ranked 14th. 3 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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