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Religion Stats: compare key data on Russia & Switzerland

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STAT Russia Switzerland
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 99
Ranked 29th. 3 times more than Switzerland
36
Ranked 43th.
Christian > Mormon > Members 21,709
Ranked 33th. 3 times more than Switzerland
8,456
Ranked 54th.
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 58.19 million
Ranked 1st. 441 times more than Switzerland
131,851
Ranked 2nd.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 15%
Ranked 68th. 3 times more than Switzerland
4.4%
Ranked 89th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 142,439
Ranked 9th. 8 times more than Switzerland
17,958
Ranked 52nd.
Major religion(s) Christianity, Islam Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 11.7%
Ranked 72nd. 2 times more than Switzerland
5.7%
Ranked 84th.
Muslim > Muslim population 16.38 million
Ranked 21st. 38 times more than Switzerland
433,000
Ranked 89th.
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 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 Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) 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 33%
Ranked 127th.
41.5%
Ranked 117th. 26% more than Russia
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 60.5%
Ranked 19th. 8% more than Switzerland
56%
Ranked 27th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 58,299
Ranked 42nd. 14 times more than Switzerland
4,258
Ranked 107th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.405
Ranked 121st.
0.576
Ranked 109th. 42% more than Russia
State religion > Church Russian Orthodox Church none since the adoption of the Federal Constitution (1848)
Jews 550,000
Ranked 4th. 31 times more than Switzerland
18,000
Ranked 26th.
Hindus 60,792
Ranked 37th. 2 times more than Switzerland
28,708
Ranked 42nd.
Religious diversity score 0.44
Ranked 114th.
0.608
Ranked 62nd. 38% more than Russia
Hindu percent of population 0.043%
Ranked 45th.
0.38%
Ranked 28th. 9 times more than Russia
State religion > Denomination Eastern Orthodox n/a
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 0.98
Ranked 111th.
2.47
Ranked 69th. 3 times more than Russia
Jews per 1000 3.74
Ranked 18th. 48% more than Switzerland
2.53
Ranked 19th.
Hindus per thousand people 0.425
Ranked 75th.
3.63
Ranked 41st. 9 times more than Russia
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 0.641
Ranked 1st. 5 times more than Switzerland
0.138
Ranked 26th.
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 91,690
Ranked 1st. 84 times more than Switzerland
1,091
Ranked 30th.
State religion > Established churches and former state churches > Disestablished 1917 none since the adoption of the Federal Constitution (1848)
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 2,047
Ranked 1st. 171 times more than Switzerland
12
Ranked 31st.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 13
Ranked 25th.
104
Ranked 17th. 8 times more than Russia
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 14.3
Ranked 1st. 9 times more than Switzerland
1.52
Ranked 33th.

SOURCES: Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; 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.; Wikipedia: State religion (Established churches and former state churches); 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: State religion; 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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