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Religion Stats: compare key data on Germany & Sweden

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STAT Germany Sweden HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 588,317.5
Ranked 16th. 9 times more than Sweden
63,836
Ranked 28th.
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 171
Ranked 16th. 4 times more than Sweden
40
Ranked 39th.
Christian > Mormon > Members 38,739
Ranked 26th. 4 times more than Sweden
9,404
Ranked 49th.
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 38%
Ranked 29th.
86%
Ranked 6th. 2 times more than Germany
Islam > Percentage Muslim 3.7%
Ranked 95th.
4%
Ranked 92nd. 8% more than Germany
Islam in Europe > Muslim population 4.03 million
Ranked 1st. 27 times more than Sweden
149,000
Ranked 9th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 164,593
Ranked 7th. 7 times more than Sweden
22,561
Ranked 43th.
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 5%
Ranked 88th. 2% more than Sweden
4.9%
Ranked 89th.
Muslim > Muslim population 4.12 million
Ranked 43th. 9 times more than Sweden
451,000
Ranked 87th.
Religions Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3% Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%
Religions > All Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3% Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 40.5%
Ranked 119th. 2 times more than Sweden
16.5%
Ranked 142nd.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 59%
Ranked 20th.
83%
Ranked 1st. 41% more than Germany
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 36,030
Ranked 51st. 13 times more than Sweden
2,767
Ranked 121st.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.437
Ranked 118th. 42% more than Sweden
0.308
Ranked 127th.
Jews 60,000
Ranked 13th. 3 times more than Sweden
18,000
Ranked 27th.
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 0.725%
Ranked 28th. 4% more than Sweden
0.7%
Ranked 29th.
Hindus 98,057
Ranked 34th. 11 times more than Sweden
8,940.5
Ranked 53th.
Secularism and atheism > Does not believe in spirit, God or life force 27%
Ranked 6th.
34%
Ranked 3rd. 26% more than Germany
Religious diversity score 0.657
Ranked 44th. 3 times more than Sweden
0.234
Ranked 157th.
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2
Ranked 86th.
2.53
Ranked 66th. 27% more than Germany
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 31.32 million
Ranked 4th. 4 times more than Sweden
7.74 million
Ranked 9th.
Jews per 1000 0.731
Ranked 38th.
2.03
Ranked 23th. 3 times more than Germany
Secularism and atheism > Believes there is a god 44%
Ranked 14th. 2 times more than Sweden
18%
Ranked 26th.
Secularism and atheism > Believes in spirit or life force 25%
Ranked 16th.
45%
Ranked 4th. 80% more than Germany
Hindus per thousand people 1.2
Ranked 50th. 27% more than Sweden
0.946
Ranked 61st.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 1.08
Ranked 13th.
1.76
Ranked 7th. 62% more than Germany
Christian > Mormon > Temples 2
Ranked 3rd. Twice as much as Sweden
1
Ranked 28th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 88,571
Ranked 4th. 5 times more than Sweden
16,609
Ranked 6th.
State religion > Established churches and former state churches > Disestablished 1918 January 2000
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 12.68 million
Ranked 1st. 89% more than Sweden
6.7 million
Ranked 3rd.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 884
Ranked 4th. 5 times more than Sweden
192
Ranked 8th.
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 155.01
Ranked 6th.
714.51
Ranked 4th. 5 times more than Germany
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 338
Ranked 13th. 3 times more than Sweden
100
Ranked 18th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 10.81
Ranked 16th.
20.32
Ranked 10th. 88% more than Germany

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); 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; Miller, Tracy, ed (October 2009) (PDF).ÿ apping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World?s Muslim Population.ÿPew Research Center. pp.ÿ31?32. Retrieved 2009-11-11.; 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; Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381; 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.;

Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381

; Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381; 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.; Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics (Caribbean); http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics; Wikipedia: State religion; 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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