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Religion Stats: compare key data on Norway & United States

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STAT Norway United States HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 23
Ranked 61st.
13,742
Ranked 1st. 597 times more than Norway
Christian > Mormon > Members 4,556
Ranked 67th.
6.32 million
Ranked 1st. 1387 times more than Norway
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 0.02
Ranked 43th.
1.7
Ranked 35th. 85 times more than Norway
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 9,894
Ranked 43th.
5.27 million
Ranked 9th. 533 times more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 90%
Ranked 4th. 64% more than United States
55%
Ranked 19th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 1.6%
Ranked 110th. 14% more than United States
1.4%
Ranked 114th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 9,953
Ranked 68th.
1.04 million
Ranked 1st. 104 times more than Norway
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 3%
Ranked 101st. 4 times more than United States
0.8%
Ranked 132nd.
Muslim > Muslim population 144,000
Ranked 109th.
2.6 million
Ranked 54th. 18 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% Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4%
Religions > All Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% (2004) Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 20.5%
Ranked 140th.
65%
Ranked 100th. 3 times more than Norway
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 78%
Ranked 4th. 2 times more than United States
34.5%
Ranked 42nd.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 4,697
Ranked 101st.
948,892
Ranked 2nd. 202 times more than Norway
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 1.02
Ranked 100th.
3.24
Ranked 73th. 3 times more than Norway
Jews 1,500
Ranked 57th.
5.8 million
Ranked 1st. 3867 times more than Norway
Hindus 23,140
Ranked 45th.
1.2 million
Ranked 9th. 52 times more than Norway
Religious diversity score 0.205
Ranked 170th.
0.824
Ranked 2nd. 4 times more than Norway
Hindu percent of population 0.5%
Ranked 24th. 25% more than United States
0.4%
Ranked 26th.
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2.19
Ranked 74th.
3.6
Ranked 42nd. 64% more than Norway
Religions > Roman Catholic 1%
Ranked 96th.
24%
Ranked 68th. 24 times more than Norway
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 4.13 million
Ranked 21st.
162.65 million
Ranked 1st. 39 times more than Norway
Religions > Muslim 1.8%
Ranked 91st. 80% more than United States
1%
Ranked 96th.
Jews per 1000 0.338
Ranked 53th.
21.03
Ranked 3rd. 62 times more than Norway
Hindus per thousand people 4.67
Ranked 36th. 21% more than United States
3.87
Ranked 40th.
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 0.004
Ranked 43th.
1.91
Ranked 10th. 477 times more than Norway
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 4.01 million
Ranked 9th.
7.42 million
Ranked 2nd. 85% more than Norway
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 821.01
Ranked 1st. 34 times more than United States
24
Ranked 12th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 151
Ranked 15th.
86,837
Ranked 1st. 575 times more than Norway

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