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Religion Stats: compare key data on Romania & Russia

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STAT Romania Russia HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 18
Ranked 67th.
99
Ranked 29th. 6 times more than Romania
Christian > Mormon > Members 3,002
Ranked 76th.
21,709
Ranked 33th. 7 times more than Romania
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 86.79
Ranked 4th. 2 times more than Russia
41
Ranked 13th.
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 18.82 million
Ranked 3rd.
58.19 million
Ranked 1st. 3 times more than Romania
Christianity > Christians 20.93 million
Ranked 6th.
27.73 million
Ranked 3rd. 32% more than Romania
Christianity > Percent Christian 99.5%
Ranked 2nd. 5 times more than Russia
19.5%
Ranked 9th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.3%
Ranked 138th.
15%
Ranked 68th. 50 times more than Romania
Jehovahs Witnesses 38,423
Ranked 32nd.
142,439
Ranked 9th. 4 times more than Romania
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity, Islam
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 0.3%
Ranked 148th.
11.7%
Ranked 72nd. 39 times more than Romania
Muslim > Muslim population 73,000
Ranked 119th.
16.38 million
Ranked 21st. 224 times more than Romania
Religions Eastern Orthodox (including all sub-denominations) 86.8%, Protestant (various denominations including Reformate and Pentecostal) 7.5%, Roman Catholic 4.7%, other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified 0.9%, none 0.1% Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2%; <i>note:</i> estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Religions > All Eastern Orthodox (including all sub-denominations) 86.8%, Protestant (various denominations including Reformate and Pentecostal) 7.5%, Roman Catholic 4.7%, other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified 0.9%, none 0.1% (2002 census) Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 70,642
Ranked 39th. 21% more than Russia
58,299
Ranked 42nd.
State religion > Church Romanian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Church
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 3.26
Ranked 72nd. 8 times more than Russia
0.405
Ranked 121st.
Jews 14,000
Ranked 32nd.
550,000
Ranked 4th. 39 times more than Romania
Religious diversity score 0.237
Ranked 155th.
0.44
Ranked 114th. 85% more than Romania
State religion > Denomination Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 1.76
Ranked 93th. 80% more than Russia
0.98
Ranked 111th.
Jews per 1000 0.622
Ranked 41st.
3.74
Ranked 18th. 6 times more than Romania
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 6.81
Ranked 4th.
38.52
Ranked 1st. 6 times more than Romania
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 5.03
Ranked 2nd. 8 times more than Russia
0.641
Ranked 1st.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 107,626
Ranked 3rd. 17% more than Russia
91,690
Ranked 1st.
State religion > Established churches and former state churches > Disestablished 1947 1917
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 1,969
Ranked 3rd.
2,047
Ranked 1st. 4% more than Romania
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 92.07
Ranked 2nd. 6 times more than Russia
14.3
Ranked 1st.
State religion > Disestablishment date 1947 1917

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; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; 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; 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; 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.; 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: State religion

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