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Religion Stats: compare key data on South Africa & Swaziland

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STAT South Africa Swaziland HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 152
Ranked 19th. 38 times more than Swaziland
4
Ranked 109th.
Christian > Mormon > Members 59,807
Ranked 21st. 39 times more than Swaziland
1,522
Ranked 87th.
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 68%
Ranked 12th. 3% more than Swaziland
66%
Ranked 15th.
Hindu percent of population 1.9%
Ranked 15th. 11 times more than Swaziland
0.175%
Ranked 31st.
Hindus 959,000
Ranked 10th. 484 times more than Swaziland
1,983
Ranked 77th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 1.5%
Ranked 111th. 50% more than Swaziland
1%
Ranked 126th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 77,954
Ranked 24th. 33 times more than Swaziland
2,335
Ranked 101st.
Major religion(s) Christianity, Islam, indigenous beliefs Christianity, indigenous beliefs
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 1.5%
Ranked 116th. 8 times more than Swaziland
0.2%
Ranked 161st.
Muslim > Muslim population 737,000
Ranked 77th. 369 times more than Swaziland
2,000
Ranked 164th.
Religions Zion Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Catholic 7.1%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%, Muslim 1.5%, other Christian 36%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1% Zionist 40% (a blend of Christianity and indigenous ancestral worship), Roman Catholic 20%, Muslim 10%, other (includes Anglican, Bahai, Methodist, Mormon, Jewish) 30%
Religions > All Zion Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Catholic 7.1%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%, other Christian 36%, Islam 1.5%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1% (2001 census) Zionist 40% (a blend of Christianity and indigenous ancestral worship), Roman Catholic 20%, Muslim 10%, Anglican, Bahai, Methodist, Mormon, Jewish and other 30%
Religious diversity score 0.86
Ranked 1st. 94% more than Swaziland
0.444
Ranked 112th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 74,151
Ranked 38th. 18 times more than Swaziland
4,131
Ranked 108th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 1.59
Ranked 97th.
3.77
Ranked 71st. 2 times more than South Africa
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 1.71
Ranked 96th.
2.16
Ranked 78th. 26% more than South Africa
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 30.15 million
Ranked 5th. 39 times more than Swaziland
774,774
Ranked 37th.
Hindus per thousand people 18.96
Ranked 22nd. 12 times more than Swaziland
1.64
Ranked 48th.
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Congregations 1,892
Ranked 4th. 21 times more than Swaziland
90
Ranked 21st.
Christianity > Orthodox > Coptic population ~4500 families (or 15000 people) N/A
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Memorial attendance 217,952
Ranked 7th. 29 times more than Swaziland
7,496
Ranked 25th.
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Publishers 92,321
Ranked 4th. 29 times more than Swaziland
3,134
Ranked 22nd.

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); https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; 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: 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.; 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.; 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: Jehovah's Witnesses by country (Africa); Wikipedia: Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa (Coptic Orthodoxy in Sub-Saharan Africa)

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