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Religion Stats: compare key data on Iceland & United States

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STAT Iceland United States HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 2
Ranked 119th.
13,742
Ranked 1st. 6871 times more than Iceland
Christian > Mormon > Members 265
Ranked 126th.
6.32 million
Ranked 1st. 23854 times more than Iceland
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 91%
Ranked 2nd. 65% more than United States
55%
Ranked 19th.
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 270,031
Ranked 46th.
162.65 million
Ranked 1st. 602 times more than Iceland
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.1%
Ranked 148th.
1.4%
Ranked 114th. 14 times more than Iceland
Jehovahs Witnesses 302
Ranked 143th.
1.04 million
Ranked 1st. 3430 times more than Iceland
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 1.05
Ranked 107th.
3.6
Ranked 42nd. 3 times more than Iceland
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 0.1%
Ranked 166th.
0.8%
Ranked 132nd. 8 times more than Iceland
Religions Lutheran Church of Iceland 82.1%, Roman Catholic Church 2.4%, Reykjavik Free Church 2.3%, Hafnarfjorour Free Church 1.6%, other Christian 2.8%, other religions 0.9%, unaffiliated 2.6%, other or unspecified 5.5% 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%
Religions > All Lutheran Church of Iceland 85.5%, Reykjavik Free Church 2.1%, Roman Catholic Church 2%, Hafnarfjorour Free Church 1.5%, other Christian 2.7%, other or unspecified 3.8%, unaffiliated 2.4% (2004) Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
Religious diversity score 0.191
Ranked 177th.
0.824
Ranked 2nd. 4 times more than Iceland
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 563
Ranked 164th.
948,892
Ranked 2nd. 1685 times more than Iceland
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 1.93
Ranked 88th.
3.24
Ranked 73th. 68% more than Iceland

SOURCES: 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); 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: 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; 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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