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Religion Stats: compare key data on India & Yemen

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STAT India Yemen HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 40
Ranked 40th. 40 times more than Yemen
1
Ranked 153th.
Christian > Mormon > Members 10,958
Ranked 46th. 219 times more than Yemen
50
Ranked 170th.
Hindus 1.01 billion
Ranked 1st. 6491 times more than Yemen
155,614
Ranked 26th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 13.4%
Ranked 72nd.
99%
Ranked 11th. 7 times more than India
Jews 6,000
Ranked 40th. 8 times more than Yemen
800
Ranked 68th.
Major religion(s) Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism Islam
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 14.4%
Ranked 66th.
99%
Ranked 7th. 7 times more than India
Muslim > Muslim population 217.29 million
Ranked 2nd. 9 times more than Yemen
24.02 million
Ranked 17th.
Religions Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shia), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu
Religions > All Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census) Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shi'a), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 79%
Ranked 79th.
96%
Ranked 23th. 22% more than India
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 17%
Ranked 66th. 5 times more than Yemen
3.5%
Ranked 116th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 917,207
Ranked 3rd.
0.0
Ranked 216th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.826
Ranked 104th.
0.0
Ranked 195th.
Shia Islam population > Number of Shia muslims 16,000,000 - 24,000,000 8,000,000 - 10,000,000
Religious diversity score 0.326
Ranked 141st. 142 times more than Yemen
0.0023
Ranked 213th.
Muslim > Islamist organizations Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Al-Islah
Jews per 1000 0.00595
Ranked 82nd.
0.0483
Ranked 73th. 8 times more than India
Hindus per thousand people 827.1
Ranked 2nd. 124 times more than Yemen
6.68
Ranked 34th.

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; 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.; Miller, Tracy: Mapping the Global Muslim Population A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population, Pew Research Center, October 7, 2009.; 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 .); 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.

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