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Religion Stats: compare key data on United States & West Bank

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Definitions

  • Islam > Percentage Muslim: Percent of Muslims in each country.
  • 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 > Jewish: Percent of population who are Jewish. Note: categories sometimes vary from country to country, extracted from CIA data.
  • Religions > Muslim: Percent of population who are Muslims. 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.
STAT United States West Bank HISTORY
Islam > Percentage Muslim 1.4%
Ranked 114th.
84%
Ranked 36th. 60 times more than United States
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% Muslim 75% (predominantly Sunni), Jewish 17%, Christian and other 8%
Religions > All Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.) Muslim 75% (predominantly Sunni), Jewish 17%, Christian and other 8%
Religions > Jewish 1%
Ranked 7th.
17%
Ranked 2nd. 17 times more than United States
Religions > Muslim 1%
Ranked 96th.
75%
Ranked 31st. 75 times more than United States
Religious diversity score 0.824
Ranked 2nd. 3 times more than West Bank
0.309
Ranked 144th.

SOURCES: International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; 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 .)

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