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Religion Stats: compare key data on Kenya & Sweden

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STAT Kenya Sweden HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 2,248.5
Ranked 87th.
63,836
Ranked 28th. 28 times more than Kenya
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 41
Ranked 38th. 2% more than Sweden
40
Ranked 39th.
Christian > Mormon > Members 11,869
Ranked 42nd. 26% more than Sweden
9,404
Ranked 49th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 7%
Ranked 80th. 75% more than Sweden
4%
Ranked 92nd.
Jehovahs Witnesses 20,286
Ranked 47th.
22,561
Ranked 43th. 11% more than Kenya
Jews 400
Ranked 73th.
18,000
Ranked 27th. 45 times more than Kenya
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 7%
Ranked 79th. 43% more than Sweden
4.9%
Ranked 89th.
Muslim > Muslim population 2.87 million
Ranked 51st. 6 times more than Sweden
451,000
Ranked 87th.
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 Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%
Religions > All Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 10%, Muslim 10%, other 2% Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 94%
Ranked 37th. 6 times more than Sweden
16.5%
Ranked 142nd.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 6%
Ranked 100th.
83%
Ranked 1st. 14 times more than Kenya
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 530,341
Ranked 7th. 192 times more than Sweden
2,767
Ranked 121st.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 15.22
Ranked 38th. 49 times more than Sweden
0.308
Ranked 127th.
Hindus 369,137
Ranked 16th. 41 times more than Sweden
8,940.5
Ranked 53th.
Religious diversity score 0.776
Ranked 13th. 3 times more than Sweden
0.234
Ranked 157th.
Hindu percent of population 1%
Ranked 19th. 10 times more than Sweden
0.099%
Ranked 39th.
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 0.615
Ranked 124th.
2.53
Ranked 66th. 4 times more than Kenya
Jews per 1000 0.0135
Ranked 79th.
2.03
Ranked 23th. 151 times more than Kenya
Hindus per thousand people 8.78
Ranked 31st. 9 times more than Sweden
0.946
Ranked 61st.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 133,825
Ranked 1st. 1338 times more than Sweden
100
Ranked 18th.

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); 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.; 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: 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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