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Religion Stats: compare key data on Norway & Switzerland

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STAT Norway Switzerland HISTORY
Buddhism > By Country > Buddhism > Buddhist total 19437 21909
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 23
Ranked 61st.
36
Ranked 43th. 57% more than Norway
Christian > Mormon > Members 4,556
Ranked 67th.
8,456
Ranked 54th. 86% more than Norway
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 9,894
Ranked 43th.
131,851
Ranked 2nd. 13 times more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 90%
Ranked 4th. 84% more than Switzerland
49%
Ranked 22nd.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 1.6%
Ranked 110th.
4.4%
Ranked 89th. 3 times more than Norway
Jehovahs Witnesses 9,953
Ranked 68th.
17,958
Ranked 52nd. 80% more than Norway
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 3%
Ranked 101st.
5.7%
Ranked 84th. 90% more than Norway
Muslim > Muslim population 144,000
Ranked 109th.
433,000
Ranked 89th. 3 times more than Norway
Religions Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% Roman Catholic 41.8%, Protestant 35.3%, Muslim 4.3%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1%
Religions > All Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% (2004) Roman Catholic 41.8%, Protestant 35.3%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 4.3%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1% (2000 census)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 20.5%
Ranked 140th.
41.5%
Ranked 117th. 2 times more than Norway
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 78%
Ranked 4th. 39% more than Switzerland
56%
Ranked 27th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 4,697
Ranked 101st. 10% more than Switzerland
4,258
Ranked 107th.
State religion > Church Church of Norway none since the adoption of the Federal Constitution (1848)
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 1.02
Ranked 100th. 78% more than Switzerland
0.576
Ranked 109th.
Jews 1,500
Ranked 57th.
18,000
Ranked 26th. 12 times more than Norway
Hindus 23,140
Ranked 45th.
28,708
Ranked 42nd. 24% more than Norway
Religious diversity score 0.205
Ranked 170th.
0.608
Ranked 62nd. 3 times more than Norway
Hindu percent of population 0.5%
Ranked 24th. 32% more than Switzerland
0.38%
Ranked 28th.
State religion > Denomination Lutheran n/a
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2.19
Ranked 74th.
2.47
Ranked 69th. 12% more than Norway
Religions > Roman Catholic 1%
Ranked 96th.
41.8%
Ranked 55th. 42 times more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 4.13 million
Ranked 21st. 13% more than Switzerland
3.67 million
Ranked 23th.
Religions > Muslim 1.8%
Ranked 91st.
4.3%
Ranked 78th. 2 times more than Norway
Jews per 1000 0.338
Ranked 53th.
2.53
Ranked 19th. 7 times more than Norway
Hindus per thousand people 4.67
Ranked 36th. 29% more than Switzerland
3.63
Ranked 41st.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 1.13
Ranked 11th. 8 times more than Switzerland
0.138
Ranked 26th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 5,619
Ranked 14th. 5 times more than Switzerland
1,091
Ranked 30th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 89
Ranked 14th. 7 times more than Switzerland
12
Ranked 31st.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 151
Ranked 15th. 45% more than Switzerland
104
Ranked 17th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 17.97
Ranked 11th. 12 times more than Switzerland
1.52
Ranked 33th.

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); 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: State religion (Established churches and former state churches); 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: 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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