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Religion Stats: compare key data on South Korea & Sweden

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STAT South Korea Sweden HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 17.87 million
Ranked 3rd. 280 times more than Sweden
63,836
Ranked 28th.
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 128
Ranked 24th. 3 times more than Sweden
40
Ranked 39th.
Christian > Mormon > Members 85,628
Ranked 17th. 9 times more than Sweden
9,404
Ranked 49th.
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 18.1%
Ranked 54th.
86%
Ranked 6th. 5 times more than South Korea
Christianity > Percent Christian 29.2%
Ranked 7th.
79.9%
Ranked 9th. 3 times more than South Korea
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.04%
Ranked 156th.
4%
Ranked 92nd. 100 times more than South Korea
Jehovahs Witnesses 91,996
Ranked 21st. 4 times more than Sweden
22,561
Ranked 43th.
Major religion(s) Buddhism, Christianity; nearly half of adults profess no religion Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 0.2%
Ranked 159th.
4.9%
Ranked 89th. 25 times more than South Korea
Muslim > Muslim population 75,000
Ranked 118th.
451,000
Ranked 87th. 6 times more than South Korea
Religions Christian 26.3% (Protestant 19.7%, Roman Catholic 6.6%), Buddhist 23.2%, other or unknown 1.3%, none 49.3% Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%
Religions > All no affiliation 46%, Christian 26%, Buddhist 26%, Confucianist 1%, other 1% Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 32.5%
Ranked 130th. 97% more than Sweden
16.5%
Ranked 142nd.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 65.5%
Ranked 15th.
83%
Ranked 1st. 27% more than South Korea
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 182,070
Ranked 25th. 66 times more than Sweden
2,767
Ranked 121st.
People who say religion is important 42.5%
Ranked 7th. 3 times more than Sweden
16.5%
Ranked 12th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 3.79
Ranked 70th. 12 times more than Sweden
0.308
Ranked 127th.
Jews 150
Ranked 87th.
18,000
Ranked 27th. 120 times more than South Korea
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 36.5%
Ranked 7th. 52 times more than Sweden
0.7%
Ranked 29th.
Hindus 12,452
Ranked 49th. 39% more than Sweden
8,940.5
Ranked 53th.
Religious diversity score 0.66
Ranked 41st. 3 times more than Sweden
0.234
Ranked 157th.
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 1.93
Ranked 87th.
2.53
Ranked 66th. 31% more than South Korea
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 8.76 million
Ranked 8th. 13% more than Sweden
7.74 million
Ranked 9th.
Jews per 1000 0.00324
Ranked 86th.
2.03
Ranked 23th. 628 times more than South Korea
Hindus per thousand people 0.25
Ranked 77th.
0.946
Ranked 61st. 4 times more than South Korea
Christian > Mormon > Temples 1
Ranked 10th. The same as Sweden
1
Ranked 28th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 12
Ranked 17th.
100
Ranked 18th. 8 times more than South Korea

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); 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); 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; Wikipedia: Christianity in Norway (Importance of religion) (GALLUP WorldView - data accessed on 17 january 2009); 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: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics (Caribbean); 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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