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El Salvador

El Salvador Religion Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK
Buddhism > Buddhists 6,108 2013 71st out of 130
Buddhism > By Country > Buddhism > Buddhist total 2084 2084
Buddhism > By Country > Buddhism > Population > 2007[49] 6.95 million 2007 30th out of 51
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 0.1% 2013 86th out of 96
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 162 2012 6th out of 11
Christian > Mormon > Congregations per million people 25.72 2012 5th out of 11
Christian > Mormon > Members 114,674 2012 6th out of 11
Christian > Mormon > Members per thousand people 18.21 2012 3rd out of 11
Christian > Mormon > Temples 1 2012 5th out of 8
Christian > Mormon > Temples per million people 0.159 2012 5th out of 8
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 21.2% 2014 49th out of 58
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 1.42 million 2014 31st out of 58
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 472 2007 12th out of 33
Jehovahs Witnesses 30,687 2002 35th out of 177
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 5.11 2002 20th out of 158
Jews 120 1998 89th out of 89
Jews per 1000 0.0204 1998 76th out of 86
Major religion(s) Christianity 2013
Muslim > Muslim population 2,000 2014 159th out of 177
Religions Roman Catholic 57.1%, Protestant 21.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.9%, Mormon 0.7%, other religions 2.3%, none 16.8% 2003
Religions > A note there is extensive activity by Protestant groups throughout the country; by the end of 1992, there were an estimated 1 million Protestant evangelicals in El Salvador 2003
Religions > All Roman Catholic 83%, other 17% 2006
Religions > Roman Catholic 83% 2006 27th out of 96
Religious diversity score 0.356 2001 133th out of 214
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 83% 2014 73th out of 143
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 15.5% 2014 72nd out of 143
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 129,115 2004 32nd out of 230
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 21.34 2004 30th out of 200

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); Wikipedia: Buddhism by country; Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership 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.; Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics (Caribbean); Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics (Caribbean). 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: Protestantism by country (Top sixty countries by number and percentage of Protestants); 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, ); watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; 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; 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.; 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, December 2003; 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 .); 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.

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El Salvador Religion Profiles (Subcategories)

Buddhism 4 Religions 3
Christian 10

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