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Religion Stats: compare key data on Norway & South Korea

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STAT Norway South Korea HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 40,143
Ranked 34th.
17.87 million
Ranked 3rd. 445 times more than Norway
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 23
Ranked 61st.
128
Ranked 24th. 6 times more than Norway
Christian > Mormon > Members 4,556
Ranked 67th.
85,628
Ranked 17th. 19 times more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 90%
Ranked 4th. 5 times more than South Korea
18.1%
Ranked 54th.
Christianity > Percent Christian 85.6%
Ranked 7th. 3 times more than South Korea
29.2%
Ranked 7th.

Islam > Percentage Muslim 1.6%
Ranked 110th. 40 times more than South Korea
0.04%
Ranked 156th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 9,953
Ranked 68th.
91,996
Ranked 21st. 9 times more than Norway
Major religion(s) Christianity Buddhism, Christianity; nearly half of adults profess no religion
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 3%
Ranked 101st. 15 times more than South Korea
0.2%
Ranked 159th.
Muslim > Muslim population 144,000
Ranked 109th. 92% more than South Korea
75,000
Ranked 118th.
Religions Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% Christian 26.3% (Protestant 19.7%, Roman Catholic 6.6%), Buddhist 23.2%, other or unknown 1.3%, none 49.3%
Religions > All Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% (2004) no affiliation 46%, Christian 26%, Buddhist 26%, Confucianist 1%, other 1%
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 20.5%
Ranked 140th.
32.5%
Ranked 130th. 59% more than Norway
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 78%
Ranked 4th. 19% more than South Korea
65.5%
Ranked 15th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 4,697
Ranked 101st.
182,070
Ranked 25th. 39 times more than Norway
People who say religion is important 20.5%
Ranked 10th.
42.5%
Ranked 7th. 2 times more than Norway
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 1.02
Ranked 100th.
3.79
Ranked 70th. 4 times more than Norway
Jews 1,500
Ranked 57th. 10 times more than South Korea
150
Ranked 87th.
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 0.85%
Ranked 24th.
36.5%
Ranked 7th. 43 times more than Norway
Hindus 23,140
Ranked 45th. 86% more than South Korea
12,452
Ranked 49th.
Religious diversity score 0.205
Ranked 170th.
0.66
Ranked 41st. 3 times more than Norway
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2.19
Ranked 74th. 14% more than South Korea
1.93
Ranked 87th.
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 4.13 million
Ranked 21st.
8.76 million
Ranked 8th. 2 times more than Norway
Jews per 1000 0.338
Ranked 53th. 104 times more than South Korea
0.00324
Ranked 86th.
Hindus per thousand people 4.67
Ranked 36th. 19 times more than South Korea
0.25
Ranked 77th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 151
Ranked 15th. 13 times more than South Korea
12
Ranked 17th.

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); 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); 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; Wikipedia: Christianity in Norway (Importance of religion) (GALLUP WorldView - data accessed on 17 january 2009); 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: 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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