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Rwanda

Rwanda Religion Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Christian > Catholic > Female catholics 2.08 million 2002 2nd out of 11
Christian > Catholic > Male catholics 1.86 million 2002 2nd out of 11
Christian > Catholic > Male catholics per thousand people 207.33 2002 5th out of 11
Christian > Catholic > Rural catholics 3.36 million 2002 1st out of 7
Christian > Catholic > Rural female catholics 1.79 million 2002 1st out of 7
Christian > Catholic > Rural male catholics 1.57 million 2002 1st out of 7
Christian > Catholic > Urban catholics 581,327 2002 3rd out of 7
Christian > Catholic > Urban female catholics 290,442 2002 4th out of 7
Christian > Catholic > Urban male catholics 290,885 2002 3rd out of 7
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 2 2014 131st out of 175
Christian > Mormon > Members 121 2014 148th out of 195
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Congregations 487 2014 12th out of 42
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Memorial attendance 69,582 2014 12th out of 41
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Publishers 22,734 2014 12th out of 42
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 43.9% 2014 25th out of 58
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 3.71 million 2014 22nd out of 58
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 3,234 2007 4th out of 17
Christian > Protestant > Quakers per million people 325.74 2007 3rd out of 16
Church and state > Constitutional reference to God enactment date 1,991 2014 11th out of 29
Islam > Percentage Muslim 4.6% 2004 88th out of 167
Jehovahs Witnesses 13,341 2002 63th out of 177
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 1.48 2002 100th out of 158
Major religion(s) Christianity, indigenous beliefs 2013
Muslim > Islamist organizations Islamic Democratic Party (Rwanda) 2014
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 1.8% 2014 112th out of 184
Muslim > Muslim population 188,000 2014 104th out of 177
Religions Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7% 2001
Religions > All Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7% (2001) 2006
Religions > Muslim 4.6% 2006 77th out of 99
Religions > Protestant 26% 2006 16th out of 51
Religions > Roman Catholic 56.5% 2006 47th out of 96
Religious diversity score 0.507 2001 92nd out of 214
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 95% 2014 30th out of 143
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 4.5% 2014 113th out of 143
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 376,060 2004 11th out of 230
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 40.64 2004 20th out of 200

SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. 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 in France (Membership Statistics); Wikipedia: Jehovah's Witnesses by country (Africa); 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, ); 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, ). 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: Constitutional references to God (List); International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; 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.; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Wikipedia: Islamism (Parties and Organizations); 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 .); 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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