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Religion Stats: compare key data on Kenya & South Africa

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STAT Kenya South Africa HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 41
Ranked 38th.
152
Ranked 19th. 4 times more than Kenya
Christian > Mormon > Members 11,869
Ranked 42nd.
59,807
Ranked 21st. 5 times more than Kenya
Hindus 369,137
Ranked 16th.
959,000
Ranked 10th. 3 times more than Kenya
Islam > Percentage Muslim 7%
Ranked 80th. 5 times more than South Africa
1.5%
Ranked 111th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 20,286
Ranked 47th.
77,954
Ranked 24th. 4 times more than Kenya
Jews 400
Ranked 73th.
106,000
Ranked 10th. 265 times more than Kenya
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity, Islam, indigenous beliefs
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 7%
Ranked 79th. 5 times more than South Africa
1.5%
Ranked 116th.
Muslim > Muslim population 2.87 million
Ranked 51st. 4 times more than South Africa
737,000
Ranked 77th.
Religions 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 Zion Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Catholic 7.1%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%, Muslim 1.5%, other Christian 36%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1%
Religions > All Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 10%, Muslim 10%, other 2% Zion Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Catholic 7.1%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%, other Christian 36%, Islam 1.5%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1% (2001 census)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 94%
Ranked 37th. 11% more than South Africa
84.5%
Ranked 69th.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 6%
Ranked 100th.
15.5%
Ranked 71st. 3 times more than Kenya
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 530,341
Ranked 7th. 7 times more than South Africa
74,151
Ranked 38th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 15.22
Ranked 38th. 10 times more than South Africa
1.59
Ranked 97th.
Religious diversity score 0.776
Ranked 13th.
0.86
Ranked 1st. 11% more than Kenya
Hindu percent of population 1%
Ranked 19th.
1.9%
Ranked 15th. 90% more than Kenya
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 0.615
Ranked 124th.
1.71
Ranked 96th. 3 times more than Kenya
Jews per 1000 0.0135
Ranked 79th.
2.53
Ranked 20th. 188 times more than Kenya
Hindus per thousand people 8.78
Ranked 31st.
18.96
Ranked 22nd. 2 times more than Kenya
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Congregations 566
Ranked 11th.
1,892
Ranked 4th. 3 times more than Kenya
Christianity > Orthodox > Coptic population ~2000 families (or 8000 people) ~4500 families (or 15000 people)
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Memorial attendance 60,162
Ranked 13th.
217,952
Ranked 7th. 4 times more than Kenya
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 133,825
Ranked 1st. 929 times more than South Africa
144
Ranked 12th.

Christian > Protestant > Quakers per million people 3,544.82
Ranked 1st. 1188 times more than South Africa
2.98
Ranked 10th.
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Publishers 25,417
Ranked 11th.
92,321
Ranked 4th. 4 times more than Kenya

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: Jehovah's Witnesses by country (Africa); Wikipedia: Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa (Coptic Orthodoxy in Sub-Saharan Africa); 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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