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STAT Sweden United States HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 40
Ranked 39th.
13,742
Ranked 1st. 344 times more than Sweden
Christian > Mormon > Members 9,404
Ranked 49th.
6.32 million
Ranked 1st. 672 times more than Sweden
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 1.1
Ranked 37th.
1.7
Ranked 35th. 55% more than Sweden
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 103,027
Ranked 36th.
5.27 million
Ranked 9th. 51 times more than Sweden
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 86%
Ranked 6th. 56% more than United States
55%
Ranked 19th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 4%
Ranked 92nd. 3 times more than United States
1.4%
Ranked 114th.
Jehovahs Witnesses 22,561
Ranked 43th.
1.04 million
Ranked 1st. 46 times more than Sweden
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 4.9%
Ranked 89th. 6 times more than United States
0.8%
Ranked 132nd.
Muslim > Muslim population 451,000
Ranked 87th.
2.6 million
Ranked 54th. 6 times more than Sweden
Religions Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13% 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 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 16.5%
Ranked 142nd.
65%
Ranked 100th. 4 times more than Sweden
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 83%
Ranked 1st. 2 times more than United States
34.5%
Ranked 42nd.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 2,767
Ranked 121st.
948,892
Ranked 2nd. 343 times more than Sweden
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.308
Ranked 127th.
3.24
Ranked 73th. 11 times more than Sweden
Jews 18,000
Ranked 27th.
5.8 million
Ranked 1st. 322 times more than Sweden
Hindus 8,940.5
Ranked 53th.
1.2 million
Ranked 9th. 135 times more than Sweden
Religious diversity score 0.234
Ranked 157th.
0.824
Ranked 2nd. 4 times more than Sweden
Hindu percent of population 0.099%
Ranked 39th.
0.4%
Ranked 26th. 4 times more than Sweden
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2.53
Ranked 66th.
3.6
Ranked 42nd. 42% more than Sweden
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 7.74 million
Ranked 9th.
162.65 million
Ranked 1st. 21 times more than Sweden
Jews per 1000 2.03
Ranked 23th.
21.03
Ranked 3rd. 10 times more than Sweden
Hindus per thousand people 0.946
Ranked 61st.
3.87
Ranked 40th. 4 times more than Sweden
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 0.04
Ranked 37th.
1.91
Ranked 10th. 48 times more than Sweden
Christian > Mormon > Temples 1
Ranked 28th.
80
Ranked 1st. 80 times more than Sweden
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 6.7 million
Ranked 3rd.
7.42 million
Ranked 2nd. 11% more than Sweden
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 714.51
Ranked 4th. 30 times more than United States
24
Ranked 12th.
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 100
Ranked 18th.
86,837
Ranked 1st. 868 times more than Sweden

SOURCES: Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); Wikipedia: Orthodoxy by country (Statistics); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; 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; 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: 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.; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; 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 .); 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. 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.; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html. 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: Lutheranism by region (Countries with more than 500,000 Lutherans) ([1] The Lutheran World Federation 2010 Membership Figures); Wikipedia: Lutheranism by region (Countries with more than 500,000 Lutherans) ([1] The Lutheran World Federation 2010 Membership Figures). 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: 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, )

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