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Religion Stats: compare key data on Finland & United States

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STAT Finland United States HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 30
Ranked 50th.
13,742
Ranked 1st. 458 times more than Finland
Christian > Mormon > Members 4,745
Ranked 65th.
6.32 million
Ranked 1st. 1332 times more than Finland
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 1.1
Ranked 38th.
1.7
Ranked 35th. 55% more than Finland
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 59,028
Ranked 40th.
5.27 million
Ranked 9th. 89 times more than Finland
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 85.1%
Ranked 7th. 55% more than United States
55%
Ranked 19th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.2%
Ranked 145th.
1.4%
Ranked 114th. 7 times more than Finland
Jehovahs Witnesses 19,044
Ranked 48th.
1.04 million
Ranked 1st. 54 times more than Finland
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 0.8%
Ranked 134th. The same as United States
0.8%
Ranked 132nd.
Muslim > Muslim population 42,000
Ranked 128th.
2.6 million
Ranked 54th. 62 times more than Finland
Religions Lutheran Church of Finland 82.5%, Orthodox Church 1.1%, other Christian 1.1%, other 0.1%, none 15.1% 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 Lutheran National Church 84.2%, Greek Orthodox in Finland 1.1%, other Christian 1.1%, other 0.1%, none 13.5% (2003) Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 28%
Ranked 134th.
65%
Ranked 100th. 2 times more than Finland
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 70%
Ranked 10th. 2 times more than United States
34.5%
Ranked 42nd.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 5,264
Ranked 96th.
948,892
Ranked 2nd. 180 times more than Finland
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 1.01
Ranked 101st.
3.24
Ranked 73th. 3 times more than Finland
Jews 1,200
Ranked 60th.
5.8 million
Ranked 1st. 4833 times more than Finland
Hindus 524
Ranked 82nd.
1.2 million
Ranked 9th. 2299 times more than Finland
Religious diversity score 0.253
Ranked 152nd.
0.824
Ranked 2nd. 3 times more than Finland
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 3.66
Ranked 39th. 2% more than United States
3.6
Ranked 42nd.
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 4.45 million
Ranked 17th.
162.65 million
Ranked 1st. 37 times more than Finland
Muslim > Islamist organizations Finnish Islamic Party Islamic Thinkers Society ·   Revolution Muslim
Jews per 1000 0.233
Ranked 59th.
21.03
Ranked 3rd. 90 times more than Finland
Hindus per thousand people 0.0972
Ranked 88th.
3.87
Ranked 40th. 40 times more than Finland
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 0.02
Ranked 41st.
1.91
Ranked 10th. 96 times more than Finland
Christian > Mormon > Temples 1
Ranked 34th.
80
Ranked 1st. 80 times more than Finland
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 4.39 million
Ranked 8th.
7.42 million
Ranked 2nd. 69% more than Finland
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 817.97
Ranked 2nd. 34 times more than United States
24
Ranked 12th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 20
Ranked 22nd.
86,837
Ranked 1st. 4342 times more than Finland

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; 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; 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.; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998; 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.; Wikipedia: Islamism (Parties and Organizations); 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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