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Religion Stats: compare key data on Papua New Guinea & United States

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STAT Papua New Guinea United States HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 77
Ranked 31st.
13,742
Ranked 1st. 178 times more than Papua New Guinea
Christian > Mormon > Members 21,265
Ranked 34th.
6.32 million
Ranked 1st. 297 times more than Papua New Guinea
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 61.5%
Ranked 16th. 12% more than United States
55%
Ranked 19th.
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 3.41 million
Ranked 24th.
162.65 million
Ranked 1st. 48 times more than Papua New Guinea
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.04%
Ranked 155th.
1.4%
Ranked 114th. 35 times more than Papua New Guinea
Jehovahs Witnesses 3,506
Ranked 90th.
1.04 million
Ranked 1st. 295 times more than Papua New Guinea
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 0.619
Ranked 123th.
3.6
Ranked 42nd. 6 times more than Papua New Guinea
Major religion(s) Christianity, indigenous beliefs Christianity
Muslim > Muslim population 2,000
Ranked 157th.
2.6 million
Ranked 54th. 1298 times more than Papua New Guinea
Religions 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% 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 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% Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
Religions > Roman Catholic 22%
Ranked 71st.
24%
Ranked 68th. 9% more than Papua New Guinea
Religious diversity score 0.552
Ranked 80th.
0.824
Ranked 2nd. 49% more than Papua New Guinea
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 224,469
Ranked 19th.
948,892
Ranked 2nd. 4 times more than Papua New Guinea
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 37.74
Ranked 21st. 12 times more than United States
3.24
Ranked 73th.
Religions > Protestant 10%
Ranked 31st.
52%
Ranked 6th. 5 times more than Papua New Guinea
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 1.05 million
Ranked 15th.
7.42 million
Ranked 2nd. 7 times more than Papua New Guinea
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 153.01
Ranked 7th. 6 times more than United States
24
Ranked 12th.

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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