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Religion Stats: compare key data on India & Kenya

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STAT India Kenya HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 40
Ranked 40th.
41
Ranked 38th. 2% more than India
Christian > Mormon > Members 10,958
Ranked 46th.
11,869
Ranked 42nd. 8% more than India
Hindus 1.01 billion
Ranked 1st. 2736 times more than Kenya
369,137
Ranked 16th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 13.4%
Ranked 72nd. 91% more than Kenya
7%
Ranked 80th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 26,333
Ranked 38th. 30% more than Kenya
20,286
Ranked 47th.
Jews 6,000
Ranked 40th. 15 times more than Kenya
400
Ranked 73th.
Major religion(s) Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 14.4%
Ranked 66th. 2 times more than Kenya
7%
Ranked 79th.
Muslim > Muslim population 217.29 million
Ranked 2nd. 76 times more than Kenya
2.87 million
Ranked 51st.
Religions Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, Muslim 10%, indigenous beliefs 10%, other 2%; <i>note:</i> a large majority of Kenyans are Christian, but estimates for the percentage of the population that adheres to Islam or indigenous beliefs vary widely
Religions > All Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census) Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 10%, Muslim 10%, other 2%
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 79%
Ranked 79th.
94%
Ranked 37th. 19% more than India
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 17%
Ranked 66th. 3 times more than Kenya
6%
Ranked 100th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 917,207
Ranked 3rd. 73% more than Kenya
530,341
Ranked 7th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.826
Ranked 104th.
15.22
Ranked 38th. 18 times more than India
Religious diversity score 0.326
Ranked 141st.
0.776
Ranked 13th. 2 times more than India
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 0.0245
Ranked 153th.
0.615
Ranked 124th. 25 times more than India
Religions > Muslim 13.4%
Ranked 60th. 34% more than Kenya
10%
Ranked 66th.
Jews per 1000 0.00595
Ranked 82nd.
0.0135
Ranked 79th. 2 times more than India
Hindus per thousand people 827.1
Ranked 2nd. 94 times more than Kenya
8.78
Ranked 31st.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 712
Ranked 10th.
133,825
Ranked 1st. 188 times more than India

Christian > Protestant > Quakers per million people 0.614
Ranked 13th.
3,544.82
Ranked 1st. 5771 times more than India

SOURCES: Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; 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.; 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: 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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