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Religion Stats: compare key data on Jamaica & United States

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STAT Jamaica United States HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 19
Ranked 66th.
13,742
Ranked 1st. 723 times more than Jamaica
Christian > Mormon > Members 5,580
Ranked 61st.
6.32 million
Ranked 1st. 1133 times more than Jamaica
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 60%
Ranked 17th. 9% more than United States
55%
Ranked 19th.
Hindus 1,668
Ranked 78th.
1.2 million
Ranked 9th. 722 times more than Jamaica
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.2%
Ranked 143th.
1.4%
Ranked 114th. 7 times more than Jamaica
Jehovahs Witnesses 11,174
Ranked 66th.
1.04 million
Ranked 1st. 93 times more than Jamaica
Jews 300
Ranked 79th.
5.8 million
Ranked 1st. 19333 times more than Jamaica
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim population 1,000
Ranked 171st.
2.6 million
Ranked 54th. 2595 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 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4%
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 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 70%
Ranked 95th. 8% more than United States
65%
Ranked 100th.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 29.5%
Ranked 48th.
34.5%
Ranked 42nd. 17% more than Jamaica
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 209,189
Ranked 22nd.
948,892
Ranked 2nd. 5 times more than Jamaica
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 79.3
Ranked 7th. 24 times more than United States
3.24
Ranked 73th.
Religious diversity score 0.616
Ranked 58th.
0.824
Ranked 2nd. 34% more than Jamaica
Hindu percent of population 0.06%
Ranked 43th.
0.4%
Ranked 26th. 7 times more than Jamaica
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 4.27
Ranked 27th. 19% more than United States
3.6
Ranked 42nd.
Religions > Roman Catholic 4%
Ranked 91st.
24%
Ranked 68th. 6 times more than Jamaica
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 1.64 million
Ranked 29th.
162.65 million
Ranked 1st. 99 times more than Jamaica
Jews per 1000 0.117
Ranked 65th.
21.03
Ranked 3rd. 179 times more than Jamaica
Religions > Protestant 61.3%
Ranked 3rd. 18% more than United States
52%
Ranked 6th.
Hindus per thousand people 0.616
Ranked 71st.
3.87
Ranked 40th. 6 times more than Jamaica
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 330
Ranked 14th.
86,837
Ranked 1st. 263 times more than Jamaica

SOURCES: 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); 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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