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Religion Stats: compare key data on Jamaica & Kenya

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STAT Jamaica Kenya HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 5,819.5
Ranked 72nd. 3 times more than Kenya
2,248.5
Ranked 87th.
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 19
Ranked 66th.
41
Ranked 38th. 2 times more than Jamaica
Christian > Mormon > Members 5,580
Ranked 61st.
11,869
Ranked 42nd. 2 times more than Jamaica
Hindus 1,668
Ranked 78th.
369,137
Ranked 16th. 221 times more than Jamaica
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.2%
Ranked 143th.
7%
Ranked 80th. 35 times more than Jamaica
Jehovahs Witnesses 11,174
Ranked 66th.
20,286
Ranked 47th. 82% more than Jamaica
Jews 300
Ranked 79th.
400
Ranked 73th. 33% more than Jamaica
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim population 1,000
Ranked 171st.
2.87 million
Ranked 51st. 2868 times more than Jamaica
Religions Protestant 62.5% (Seventh-Day Adventist 10.8%, Pentecostal 9.5%, Other Church of God 8.3%, Baptist 7.2%, New Testament Church of God 6.3%, Church of God in Jamaica 4.8%, Church of God of Prophecy 4.3%, Anglican 3.6%, other Christian 7.7%), Roman Catholic 2.6%, other or unspecified 14.2%, none 20.9% 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 Protestant 61.3% (Church of God 21.2%, Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Baptist 8.8%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Anglican 5.5%, Methodist 2.7%, United Church 2.7%, Jehovah's Witness 1.6%, Brethren 1.1%, Moravian 1.1%), Roman Catholic 4%, other including some spiritual cults 34.7% Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 10%, Muslim 10%, other 2%
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 70%
Ranked 95th.
94%
Ranked 37th. 34% more than Jamaica
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 29.5%
Ranked 48th. 5 times more than Kenya
6%
Ranked 100th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 209,189
Ranked 22nd.
530,341
Ranked 7th. 3 times more than Jamaica
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 79.3
Ranked 7th. 5 times more than Kenya
15.22
Ranked 38th.
Religious diversity score 0.616
Ranked 58th.
0.776
Ranked 13th. 26% more than Jamaica
Hindu percent of population 0.06%
Ranked 43th.
1%
Ranked 19th. 17 times more than Jamaica
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 4.27
Ranked 27th. 7 times more than Kenya
0.615
Ranked 124th.
Religions > Roman Catholic 4%
Ranked 91st.
33%
Ranked 61st. 8 times more than Jamaica
Jews per 1000 0.117
Ranked 65th. 9 times more than Kenya
0.0135
Ranked 79th.
Religions > Protestant 61.3%
Ranked 3rd. 36% more than Kenya
45%
Ranked 8th.
Hindus per thousand people 0.616
Ranked 71st.
8.78
Ranked 31st. 14 times more than Jamaica
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 330
Ranked 14th.
133,825
Ranked 1st. 406 times more than Jamaica

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); 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, )

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