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Religion Stats: compare key data on Japan & Russia

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STAT Japan Russia HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 281
Ranked 10th. 3 times more than Russia
99
Ranked 29th.
Christian > Mormon > Members 126,407
Ranked 12th. 6 times more than Russia
21,709
Ranked 33th.
Christianity > Christians 2.56 million
Ranked 11th.
27.73 million
Ranked 3rd. 11 times more than Japan
Christianity > Percent Christian 2%
Ranked 35th.
19.5%
Ranked 9th. 10 times more than Japan
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.2%
Ranked 141st.
15%
Ranked 68th. 75 times more than Japan
Jehovahs Witnesses 218,262
Ranked 6th. 53% more than Russia
142,439
Ranked 9th.
Major religion(s) Shintoism, Buddhism Christianity, Islam
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 0.1%
Ranked 168th.
11.7%
Ranked 72nd. 117 times more than Japan
Muslim > Muslim population 185,000
Ranked 105th.
16.38 million
Ranked 21st. 89 times more than Japan
Religions observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%) Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2%; <i>note:</i> estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Religions > All observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%) Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 23.5%
Ranked 137th.
33%
Ranked 127th. 40% more than Japan
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 75%
Ranked 7th. 24% more than Russia
60.5%
Ranked 19th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 15,061
Ranked 66th.
58,299
Ranked 42nd. 4 times more than Japan
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.118
Ranked 148th.
0.405
Ranked 121st. 3 times more than Japan
Jews 2,000
Ranked 55th.
550,000
Ranked 4th. 275 times more than Japan
Hindus 5,097
Ranked 64th.
60,792
Ranked 37th. 12 times more than Japan
Religious diversity score 0.541
Ranked 85th. 23% more than Russia
0.44
Ranked 114th.
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 1.71
Ranked 95th. 75% more than Russia
0.98
Ranked 111th.
Jews per 1000 0.0158
Ranked 78th.
3.74
Ranked 18th. 237 times more than Japan
Religions > Note total adherents exceeds 100% because many people belong to both Shintoism and Buddhism estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Hindus per thousand people 0.0399
Ranked 92nd.
0.425
Ranked 75th. 11 times more than Japan
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Av bible studies 168,138
Ranked 2nd. 37% more than Russia
122,936
Ranked 3rd.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 135
Ranked 13th. 10 times more than Russia
13
Ranked 25th.

SOURCES: Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; 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; 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: Jehovah's Witnesses by country (Asia); 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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