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Religion Stats: compare key data on Denmark & United States

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STAT Denmark United States HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 23
Ranked 59th.
13,742
Ranked 1st. 597 times more than Denmark
Christian > Mormon > Members 4,376
Ranked 69th.
6.32 million
Ranked 1st. 1445 times more than Denmark
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 91%
Ranked 3rd. 65% more than United States
55%
Ranked 19th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 3%
Ranked 100th. 2 times more than United States
1.4%
Ranked 114th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 14,314
Ranked 58th.
1.04 million
Ranked 1st. 72 times more than Denmark
Jews 8,000
Ranked 36th.
5.8 million
Ranked 1st. 725 times more than Denmark
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 4.1%
Ranked 97th. 5 times more than United States
0.8%
Ranked 132nd.
Muslim > Muslim population 226,000
Ranked 96th.
2.6 million
Ranked 54th. 11 times more than Denmark
Religions Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Christian (includes Protestant and Roman Catholic) 3%, Muslim 2% Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4%
Religions > All Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2% Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 18%
Ranked 141st.
65%
Ranked 100th. 4 times more than Denmark
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 80.5%
Ranked 2nd. 2 times more than United States
34.5%
Ranked 42nd.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 2,602
Ranked 124th.
948,892
Ranked 2nd. 365 times more than Denmark
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.481
Ranked 114th.
3.24
Ranked 73th. 7 times more than Denmark
Hindus 5,468
Ranked 62nd.
1.2 million
Ranked 9th. 220 times more than Denmark
Religious diversity score 0.233
Ranked 160th.
0.824
Ranked 2nd. 4 times more than Denmark
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2.66
Ranked 61st.
3.6
Ranked 42nd. 35% more than Denmark
Religions > Roman Catholic 3%
Ranked 93th.
24%
Ranked 68th. 8 times more than Denmark
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 4.94 million
Ranked 14th.
162.65 million
Ranked 1st. 33 times more than Denmark
Religions > Muslim 2%
Ranked 88th. Twice as much as United States
1%
Ranked 96th.
Jews per 1000 1.51
Ranked 26th.
21.03
Ranked 3rd. 14 times more than Denmark
Hindus per thousand people 0.982
Ranked 57th.
3.87
Ranked 40th. 4 times more than Denmark
Christian > Mormon > Temples 1
Ranked 26th.
80
Ranked 1st. 80 times more than Denmark
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 4.48 million
Ranked 7th.
7.42 million
Ranked 2nd. 66% more than Denmark
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 807.42
Ranked 3rd. 34 times more than United States
24
Ranked 12th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 29
Ranked 21st.
86,837
Ranked 1st. 2994 times more than Denmark

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; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998; 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; 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.; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; 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.; 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.; Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics (Caribbean); 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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