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Religion Stats: compare key data on Norway & Sweden

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STAT Norway Sweden HISTORY
Buddhism > By Country > Buddhism > Buddhist total 19437 18062
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 23
Ranked 61st.
40
Ranked 39th. 74% more than Norway
Christian > Mormon > Members 4,556
Ranked 67th.
9,404
Ranked 49th. 2 times more than Norway
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 9,894
Ranked 43th.
103,027
Ranked 36th. 10 times more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 90%
Ranked 4th. 5% more than Sweden
86%
Ranked 6th.
Christianity > Percent Christian 85.6%
Ranked 7th. 7% more than Sweden
79.9%
Ranked 9th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 1.6%
Ranked 110th.
4%
Ranked 92nd. 3 times more than Norway
Jehovahs Witnesses 9,953
Ranked 68th.
22,561
Ranked 43th. 2 times more than Norway
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 3%
Ranked 101st.
4.9%
Ranked 89th. 63% more than Norway
Religions Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%
Religions > All Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% (2004) Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 20.5%
Ranked 140th. 24% more than Sweden
16.5%
Ranked 142nd.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 78%
Ranked 4th.
83%
Ranked 1st. 6% more than Norway
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 4,697
Ranked 101st. 70% more than Sweden
2,767
Ranked 121st.
Muslim > Muslim population 144,000
Ranked 109th.
451,000
Ranked 87th. 3 times more than Norway
Buddhism > Buddhists 40,143
Ranked 34th.
63,836
Ranked 28th. 59% more than Norway
State religion > Church Church of Norway Church of Sweden
People who say religion is important 20.5%
Ranked 10th. 24% more than Sweden
16.5%
Ranked 12th.
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 0.02
Ranked 43th.
1.1
Ranked 37th. 55 times more than Norway
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 1.02
Ranked 100th. 3 times more than Sweden
0.308
Ranked 127th.
Jews 1,500
Ranked 57th.
18,000
Ranked 27th. 12 times more than Norway
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 0.85%
Ranked 24th. 21% more than Sweden
0.7%
Ranked 29th.
Hindus 23,140
Ranked 45th. 3 times more than Sweden
8,940.5
Ranked 53th.
Religious diversity score 0.205
Ranked 170th.
0.234
Ranked 157th. 14% more than Norway
Hindu percent of population 0.5%
Ranked 24th. 5 times more than Sweden
0.099%
Ranked 39th.
State religion > Denomination Lutheran Lutheran
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2.19
Ranked 74th.
2.53
Ranked 66th. 15% more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 4.13 million
Ranked 21st.
7.74 million
Ranked 9th. 87% more than Norway
Jews per 1000 0.338
Ranked 53th.
2.03
Ranked 23th. 6 times more than Norway
Hindus per thousand people 4.67
Ranked 36th. 5 times more than Sweden
0.946
Ranked 61st.
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 0.004
Ranked 43th.
0.04
Ranked 37th. 10 times more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 1.13
Ranked 11th.
1.76
Ranked 7th. 55% more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 5,619
Ranked 14th.
16,609
Ranked 6th. 3 times more than Norway
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 4.01 million
Ranked 9th.
6.7 million
Ranked 3rd. 67% more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 89
Ranked 14th.
192
Ranked 8th. 2 times more than Norway
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 821.01
Ranked 1st. 15% more than Sweden
714.51
Ranked 4th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 151
Ranked 15th. 51% more than Sweden
100
Ranked 18th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 17.97
Ranked 11th.
20.32
Ranked 10th. 13% more than Norway

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country; Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; 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: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); Wikipedia: State religion (Established churches and former state churches); Wikipedia: Christianity in Norway (Importance of religion) (GALLUP WorldView - data accessed on 17 january 2009); Wikipedia: Orthodoxy by country (Statistics); 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.; http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics. 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.; http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics; 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.; 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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