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Costa Rica

Costa Rica Religion Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 103,311 2013 22nd out of 130
Buddhism > By Country > Buddhism > Population > 2007[49] 4.13 million 2007 37th out of 51
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 2.2% 2013 17th out of 96
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 73 2012 8th out of 11
Christian > Mormon > Congregations per million people 15.19 2012 10th out of 11
Christian > Mormon > Members 41,353 2012 9th out of 11
Christian > Mormon > Members per thousand people 8.61 2012 9th out of 11
Christian > Mormon > Temples 1 2012 8th out of 8
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Av. bible studies 34,437 2014 6th out of 9
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 18% 2014 55th out of 58
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 722,911 2014 38th out of 58
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 72 2007 19th out of 33
Islam > Percentage Muslim 0.1% 2004 149th out of 167
Jehovahs Witnesses 21,024 2002 45th out of 177
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 5.14 2002 19th out of 158
Jews 2,500 1998 52nd out of 89
Jews per 1000 0.667 1998 40th out of 86
Major religion(s) Christianity 2013
Religions Roman Catholic 76.3%, Evangelical 13.7%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.3%, other Protestant 0.7%, other 4.8%, none 3.2% 2008
Religions > All Roman Catholic 76.3%, Evangelical 13.7%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.3%, other Protestant 0.7%, other 4.8%, none 3.2% 2006
Religions > Protestant 0.7% 2006 49th out of 51
Religions > Roman Catholic 76.3% 2006 37th out of 96
Religious diversity score 0.241 2001 154th out of 214
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 79% 2014 81st out of 143
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 19.5% 2014 63th out of 143
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 44,022 2004 49th out of 230
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 10.37 2004 46th 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: Jehovah's Witnesses by country (North America); 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, ); 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.; 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; 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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Costa Rica Religion Profiles (Subcategories)

Buddhism 3 Religions 3
Christian 10

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