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Religion Stats: compare key data on Netherlands & Papua New Guinea

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STAT Netherlands Papua New Guinea HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 33
Ranked 48th.
77
Ranked 31st. 2 times more than Netherlands
Christian > Mormon > Members 9,247
Ranked 51st.
21,265
Ranked 34th. 2 times more than Netherlands
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 33%
Ranked 35th.
61.5%
Ranked 16th. 86% more than Netherlands
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 5.41 million
Ranked 13th. 59% more than Papua New Guinea
3.41 million
Ranked 24th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 6%
Ranked 84th. 150 times more than Papua New Guinea
0.04%
Ranked 155th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 30,728
Ranked 34th. 9 times more than Papua New Guinea
3,506
Ranked 90th.
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 1.9
Ranked 89th. 3 times more than Papua New Guinea
0.619
Ranked 123th.
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity, indigenous beliefs
Muslim > Muslim population 914,000
Ranked 74th. 457 times more than Papua New Guinea
2,000
Ranked 157th.
Religions Roman Catholic 30%, Dutch Reformed 11%, Calvinist 6%, other Protestant 3%, Muslim 5.8%, other 2.2%, none 42% Roman Catholic 27%, Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3%
Religions > All Roman Catholic 31%, Dutch Reformed 13%, Calvinist 7%, Muslim 5.5%, other 2.5%, none 41% (2002) Roman Catholic 22%, Lutheran 16%, Presbyterian/Methodist/London Missionary Society 8%, Anglican 5%, Evangelical Alliance 4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other Protestant 10%, indigenous beliefs 34%
Religions > Roman Catholic 31%
Ranked 62nd. 41% more than Papua New Guinea
22%
Ranked 71st.
Religious diversity score 0.722
Ranked 19th. 31% more than Papua New Guinea
0.552
Ranked 80th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 4,507
Ranked 105th.
224,469
Ranked 19th. 50 times more than Netherlands
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.277
Ranked 131st.
37.74
Ranked 21st. 136 times more than Netherlands
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 2.1 million
Ranked 11th. Twice as much as Papua New Guinea
1.05 million
Ranked 15th.
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 126.19
Ranked 9th.
153.01
Ranked 7th. 21% more than Netherlands

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); International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; 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.; 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: 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 .); 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: Lutheranism by region (Countries with more than 500,000 Lutherans) ([1] The Lutheran World Federation 2010 Membership Figures); Wikipedia: Lutheranism by region (Countries with more than 500,000 Lutherans) ([1] The Lutheran World Federation 2010 Membership Figures). 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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