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Religion Stats: compare key data on United States & Virgin Islands

Definitions

  • Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population: Muslim percentage (%) of total population 2014 Pew Report.
  • Religions: This entry includes a rank ordering of religions by adherents starting with the largest group and sometimes includes the percent of total population.
  • Religions > All: This entry includes a rank ordering of religions by adherents starting with the largest group and sometimes includes the percent of total population.
  • Religions > Roman Catholic: Percent of population who are Roman Catholics. Note: categories sometimes vary from country to country, extracted from CIA data.
  • Religious diversity score: The probability of two people chosen at random having different religions. For instance, if you take two people from anywhere in the country of South Africa, there's an 86% chance they will be of different religious sects or different religions altogether.
  • Seventh-day Adventist Membership: This entry lists Seventh-day Adventist membership worldwide as of 2004. Membership is defined as baptised and active.
STAT United States Virgin Islands HISTORY
Jehovahs Witnesses 1.04 million
Ranked 1st. 1673 times more than Virgin Islands
619
Ranked 132nd.
Jews 5.8 million
Ranked 1st. 14500 times more than Virgin Islands
400
Ranked 75th.
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 0.8%
Ranked 132nd. 8 times more than Virgin Islands
0.1%
Ranked 181st.
Religions Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% Baptist 42%, Roman Catholic 34%, Episcopalian 17%, other 7%
Religions > All Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.) Baptist 42%, Roman Catholic 34%, Episcopalian 17%, other 7%
Religions > Roman Catholic 24%
Ranked 68th.
34%
Ranked 59th. 42% more than United States
Religious diversity score 0.824
Ranked 2nd. 30% more than Virgin Islands
0.636
Ranked 51st.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 948,892
Ranked 2nd. 124 times more than Virgin Islands
7,631
Ranked 88th.

SOURCES: watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998; 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

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