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Sweden

Sweden Religion Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Buddhism > Buddhists 63,836 2013 28th out of 130
Buddhism > By Country > Buddhism > Buddhist total 18062 1806
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 0.7% 2013 29th out of 96
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 40 2014 39th out of 175
Christian > Mormon > Members 9,404 2014 49th out of 195
Christian > Mormon > Temples 1 2014 28th out of 34
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 1.1 2014 37th out of 43
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 103,027 2014 36th out of 43
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 0.04 2014 37th out of 43
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans 6.7 million 2010 3rd out of 17
Christian > Prostestant > Lutherans per thousand people 714.51 2010 4th out of 17
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members 16,609 2011 6th out of 34
Christian > Protestant > Baptist church members per thousand people 1.76 2011 7th out of 34
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches 192 2011 8th out of 34
Christian > Protestant > Baptist churches per million people 20.32 2011 10th out of 34
Christian > Protestant > Protestant percent 86% 2014 6th out of 58
Christian > Protestant > Protestants 7.74 million 2014 9th out of 58
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 100 2007 18th out of 33
Christianity > Percent Christian 79.9% 2009 9th out of 13
Hindu percent of population 0.099% 2011 39th out of 49
Hindus 8,940.5 2011 53th out of 94
Hindus per thousand people 0.946 2011 61st out of 94
Islam > Percentage Muslim 4% 2004 92nd out of 167
Islam in Europe > Muslim population 149,000 2009 9th out of 24
Jehovahs Witnesses 22,561 2002 43th out of 177
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2.53 2002 66th out of 158
Jews 18,000 1998 27th out of 89
Jews per 1000 2.03 1998 23th out of 86
Major religion(s) Christianity 2013
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 4.9% 2014 89th out of 184
Muslim > Muslim population 451,000 2014 87th out of 177
People who say religion is important 16.5% 2009 12th out of 13
Religions Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13% 2008
Religions > All Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist 2006
Religious diversity score 0.234 2001 157th out of 214
Secularism and atheism > Believes in spirit or life force 45% 2010 4th out of 27
Secularism and atheism > Believes there is a god 18% 2010 26th out of 27
Secularism and atheism > Does not believe in spirit, God or life force 34% 2010 3rd out of 27
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 16.5% 2014 142nd out of 143
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 83% 2014 1st out of 143
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 2,767 2004 121st out of 230
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.308 2004 127th out of 200
State religion > Church Church of Sweden 2014
State religion > Denomination Lutheran 2014
State religion > Disestablishment date 2000 2014
State religion > Established churches and former state churches > Disestablished January 2000 2000

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 membership statistics (Caribbean); Wikipedia: Orthodoxy by country (Statistics); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; 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.; http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/statistics; http://www.bwanet.org/about-us2/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: 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, ); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; 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.; International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; Miller, Tracy, ed (October 2009) (PDF).ÿ apping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World?s Muslim Population.ÿPew Research Center. pp.ÿ31?32. Retrieved 2009-11-11.; 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 .); Wikipedia: Christianity in Norway (Importance of religion) (GALLUP WorldView - data accessed on 17 january 2009); 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 .); Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381;

Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381

; Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381; 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.; Wikipedia: State religion (Established churches and former state churches); Wikipedia: State religion

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Sweden Religion Profiles (Subcategories)

Buddhism 3 Secularism and atheism 5
Christian 15 State religion 4

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