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Religion Stats: compare key data on Russia & South Korea

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STAT Russia South Korea HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 99
Ranked 29th.
128
Ranked 24th. 29% more than Russia
Christian > Mormon > Members 21,709
Ranked 33th.
85,628
Ranked 17th. 4 times more than Russia
Christianity > Christians 27.73 million
Ranked 3rd. 93% more than South Korea
14.38 million
Ranked 6th.
Christianity > Percent Christian 19.5%
Ranked 9th.
29.2%
Ranked 7th. 50% more than Russia

Islam > Percentage Muslim 15%
Ranked 68th. 375 times more than South Korea
0.04%
Ranked 156th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 142,439
Ranked 9th. 55% more than South Korea
91,996
Ranked 21st.
Major religion(s) Christianity, Islam Buddhism, Christianity; nearly half of adults profess no religion
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 11.7%
Ranked 72nd. 58 times more than South Korea
0.2%
Ranked 159th.
Muslim > Muslim population 16.38 million
Ranked 21st. 218 times more than South Korea
75,000
Ranked 118th.
Religions 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 Christian 26.3% (Protestant 19.7%, Roman Catholic 6.6%), Buddhist 23.2%, other or unknown 1.3%, none 49.3%
Religions > All Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) no affiliation 46%, Christian 26%, Buddhist 26%, Confucianist 1%, other 1%
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 33%
Ranked 127th. 2% more than South Korea
32.5%
Ranked 130th.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 60.5%
Ranked 19th.
65.5%
Ranked 15th. 8% more than Russia
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 58,299
Ranked 42nd.
182,070
Ranked 25th. 3 times more than Russia
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.405
Ranked 121st.
3.79
Ranked 70th. 9 times more than Russia
Jews 550,000
Ranked 4th. 3667 times more than South Korea
150
Ranked 87th.
Hindus 60,792
Ranked 37th. 5 times more than South Korea
12,452
Ranked 49th.
Religious diversity score 0.44
Ranked 114th.
0.66
Ranked 41st. 50% more than Russia
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 0.98
Ranked 111th.
1.93
Ranked 87th. 97% more than Russia
Jews per 1000 3.74
Ranked 18th. 1155 times more than South Korea
0.00324
Ranked 86th.
Hindus per thousand people 0.425
Ranked 75th. 70% more than South Korea
0.25
Ranked 77th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 13
Ranked 25th. 8% more than South Korea
12
Ranked 17th.

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