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Religion Stats: compare key data on Georgia & Russia

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STAT Georgia Russia HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 1
Ranked 164th.
99
Ranked 29th. 99 times more than Georgia
Christian > Mormon > Members 216
Ranked 133th.
21,709
Ranked 33th. 101 times more than Georgia
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 3.75 million
Ranked 13th.
58.19 million
Ranked 1st. 16 times more than Georgia
Christianity > Christians 4.11 million
Ranked 9th.
27.73 million
Ranked 3rd. 7 times more than Georgia
Christianity > Percent Christian 88.6%
Ranked 4th. 5 times more than Russia
19.5%
Ranked 9th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 9.9%
Ranked 77th.
15%
Ranked 68th. 52% more than Georgia
Jehovahs Witnesses 15,748
Ranked 54th.
142,439
Ranked 9th. 9 times more than Georgia
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity, Islam
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 10.5%
Ranked 73th.
11.7%
Ranked 72nd. 11% more than Georgia
Muslim > Muslim population 442,000
Ranked 88th.
16.38 million
Ranked 21st. 37 times more than Georgia
Religions Orthodox Christian 83.9%, Muslim 9.9%, Armenian-Gregorian 3.9%, Catholic 0.8%, other 0.8%, none 0.7% Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2%; <i>note:</i> estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Religions > All Orthodox Christian 83.9%, Muslim 9.9%, Armenian-Gregorian 3.9%, Catholic 0.8%, other 0.8%, none 0.7% (2002 census) Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 80%
Ranked 78th. 2 times more than Russia
33%
Ranked 127th.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 16%
Ranked 68th.
60.5%
Ranked 19th. 4 times more than Georgia
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 350
Ranked 173th.
58,299
Ranked 42nd. 167 times more than Georgia
State religion > Church Georgian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Church
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 83.8
Ranked 6th. 2 times more than Russia
41
Ranked 13th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.0811
Ranked 158th.
0.405
Ranked 121st. 5 times more than Georgia
Jews 17,000
Ranked 28th.
550,000
Ranked 4th. 32 times more than Georgia
Hindus 465
Ranked 84th.
60,792
Ranked 37th. 131 times more than Georgia
Religious diversity score 0.654
Ranked 46th. 49% more than Russia
0.44
Ranked 114th.
State religion > Denomination Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 3.61
Ranked 41st. 4 times more than Russia
0.98
Ranked 111th.
Jews per 1000 3.79
Ranked 17th. 1% more than Russia
3.74
Ranked 18th.
Hindus per thousand people 0.104
Ranked 86th.
0.425
Ranked 75th. 4 times more than Georgia
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 1.36
Ranked 13th.
38.52
Ranked 1st. 28 times more than Georgia
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 1.13
Ranked 12th. 77% more than Russia
0.641
Ranked 1st.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 5,085
Ranked 17th.
91,690
Ranked 1st. 18 times more than Georgia
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Av bible studies 9,226
Ranked 7th.
122,936
Ranked 3rd. 13 times more than Georgia
State religion > Established churches and former state churches > Disestablished 1921 1917
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 75
Ranked 20th.
2,047
Ranked 1st. 27 times more than Georgia
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 13
Ranked 24th. The same as Russia
13
Ranked 25th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 16.73
Ranked 13th. 17% more than Russia
14.3
Ranked 1st.
State religion > Disestablishment date 1921 1917

SOURCES: Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; 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; 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; Wikipedia: State religion (Established churches and former state churches); Wikipedia: Orthodoxy by country (Statistics); 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.; 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.; http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics. 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.; http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics; Wikipedia: Jehovah's Witnesses by country (Asia); Wikipedia: State religion; 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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