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These are lists of religious demographics and religions by country.

Four largest religions

World Religions
Four largest religions Adherents % of World Population Wikipage
World Population 6.8 billion [11] Figure used by individual articles
Christianity 1.9 billion - 2.1 billion [12] 29% - 32% Christianity by country
Islam 1.3 billion - 1.57 billion [13] 19% - 21% Islam by country
Buddhism 500 million - 1.5 billion [14] 7% - 21% Buddhism by country
Hinduism 950 million - 1 billion [15] 14% - 20% Hinduism by country
Total 4.65 billion - 6.17 billion 68.38% - 90.73%
File:Christian distribution.png
Christianity - Percentage by country
Islam - Percentage by country
Buddhism - Percentage by country
Hinduism - Percentage by country

The table above is compiled from the relevant Wikipedia pages listing Religions by Country. Please note that although figures are an approximation there are many sources. Please see individual pages (Linked in Table) for details.

The numbers of adherents to organised religions in the world is difficult to accurately ascertain. Therefore figures and estimates are included from multiple sources to show the reader the problem in compiling such statistics.

Adherents.com estimates

Adherents.com says "Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number."

Religion Adherents
Christianity 2.1 billion
Islam 1.5 billion
Irreligious/agnostic/atheism 1.1 billion
Hinduism 900 million
Chinese traditional religion 394 million
Buddhism 376 million
Animist religions 300 million
African traditional/diasporic religions 100 million
Sikhism 23 million
Juche 19 million
Spiritism 15 million
Judaism 14 million
Baha'i 7 million
Jainism 4.2 million
Shinto 4 million
Cao Dai 4 million
Zoroastrianism 2.6 million
Tenrikyo 2 million
Neo-Paganism 1 million
Unitarian Universalism 800,000
Rastafari Movement 600,000

Notes

  • These figures may incorporate populations of secular/nominal adherents as well as syncretist worshipers, although the concept of syncretism is disputed by some.
  • For Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto or animism etc., people often have religions which are a mix of belief systems. This leads to the unusually large uncertainty in the calculations for Buddhism. The lower number of approximately 400 million represents traditional Buddhists (have taken refuge in the Three Jewels, those following all of the precepts of Buddhisim laid down by the Buddha,) whereas the larger number of 1.5 billion includes "natural Buddhists" (as well as secular/nominal Buddhists), lacking specific ceremony, as long as they do not profess belief in another religion. Main article: Buddhism by country.[1][2]
  • It is hard to accurately report the actual number of adherents of Judaism as there are Jews that do not practice the religion that may be under the secular/irreligious category even though they are fully Jewish.
  • Over 20 percent of the world's population does not claim any allegiance to a religion, consisting of atheists, humanists and agnostics. According to Adherents.com[3], nonbelievers in god as a group, come in fourth place after Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism in terms of global ranking of commonly-held belief systems[4]
  • Chinese traditional religion is described as "the common religion of the majority Chinese culture: a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, as well as the traditional non-scriptural/local practices and beliefs."

World Christian Encyclopedia

Religions or beliefs with over 5 million adherents.[5]

Religion Population Religious text Type Holy city Founded Afterlife
Christianity 2.1 billion Bible Abrahamic Vatican City Israel , 1st century Eternal hell, heaven and temporal purgatory
Islam 1.4 billion Quran Abrahamic Mecca. Saudi Arabia , around 610 Eternal hell and heaven
Irreligious/atheism 1 billion none N/A none N/A none
Hinduism 900 million Vedas Dharmic Varanasi Around 1700–1100 BCE, North India Reincarnation until enlightenment
Buddhism 600 million Tripiṭaka Dharmic Bodh Gaya 5th century BCE, Nepal Reincarnation without a soul
Traditional religion/Animism 300 million
Chinese folk religion 300 million Taoic
Deism 200 million none n/a none n/a none
Sikhism 25 million Guru Granth Sahib Dharmic Amritsar Around 1490, Punjab Reincarnation until karma
Spiritism 18 million
Judaism 17 million Torah, Abrahamic Jerusalem Around 1500 BCE Symbolic heaven and hell
Bahá'í 9 million Aqdas Abrahamic Acre Iran , in 1844 Symbolic heaven and hell
Shinto 8 million Taoic Japan
Wicca or Neopaganism unknown

Other estimates

Religions or beliefs with at least 0.5 million adherents. The counts presented in the list below are current estimates of the number of people who have at least a minimal level of self-identification as adherents of the religion. Levels of participation vary within all groups. These numbers tend toward the high end of reasonable worldwide estimates.

Religion Population
Christianity 2.1 billion[6]
Islam 1.57 billion[7]
Buddhism 1500 million[8]
Hinduism 1 billion[9]
Irreligious/deism/atheism 0.9 billion[10]
Traditional religion/Animism/Shamanism/Ethnoreligion 457 million[11]
Chinese folk religion 400 million[12]
Sikhism 25 million
Juche 23 million (all of the population of North Korea as well as a minority in India)
Spiritism 18 million
Judaism 13.1 million[13]
Bahá'í 7 million[14][15]
Cao Dai 7-8 million[16]
Jainism 4.2 million[17]
Shinto 2.7 million[18]
Tenrikyo 2.35 million[19]
Zoroastrianism
Hoa Hao 2 million[20]
Wicca or Neopaganism
Unitarian Universalism 1 million
Sekai Kyuseikyo 1 million[21]
Rastafari movement 0.8 million[22]
Scientology 0.5 million[citation needed]

By proportion

Christians

Countries with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country (as of 2008):

  1.  Vatican City 100% (100% Roman Catholic)
  2.  Guatemala ~ 100%[23][24] (55% Roman Catholic and 33% Protestants)
  3.  Micronesia ~100%[25]
  4.  Samoa ~100%[26]
  5.  Panama ~ 100%[27]
  6.  Romania 99%[28]
  7.  East Timor 99%[29][30] (90% Roman Catholic)
  8.  Bolivia 98.1%[31][32] (95% Roman Catholic)
  9.  Venezuela 98%[33] (mostly Roman Catholic)
  10.  Marshall Islands 97.2%[34]
  11.  Peru 97.1%[35]
  12.  Paraguay 96.9%[36] (mostly Roman Catholic)
  13.  Papua New Guinea 96.4%[37]
  14.  Kiribati 96%[38]
  15.  Angola +95%[39]
  16.  Barbados +95%[40]
  17.  Cyprus 95%[41](mostly Greek Orthodox)
  18.  Mexico 95%[42] (mostly Roman Catholic)
  19.  Malta 95%[43]

Muslims

Countries with the greatest proportion of Muslims from Islam by country (as of 2008):

  1.  Yemen 99.9% (65-70% Sunni, 30-35% Shi'a)
  2.  Mauritania 99.9% (mostly Sunni)
  3.  Somalia 99.9% (mostly Sunni)
  4.  Western Sahara 99.8% (mostly Sunni)
  5.  Maldives 99.33% (mostly Sunni)
  6.  Oman 99% (mostly Ibadhi)[44]
  7.  Djibouti +99% (mostly Sunni)[45]
  8.  Comoros 99% (mostly Sunni)
  9.  Afghanistan 99% (80% Sunni, 19% Shi'a)
  10.  Tunisia 99% (mostly Sunni)
  11.  Algeria 99% (mostly Sunni)
  12.  Turkey 99% (85% Sunni, 15% Alevis)
  13.  Morocco 98.7% (mostly Sunni)
  14.  Niger +98% (95% Sunni)[46]
  15.  Iran 98% (mostly Shi'a)
  16.  Pakistan 97%[47] (75-80% Sunni, 20-25% Shi'a)[48]
  17.  Iraq 97% (60-65% Shi'a, 32-37% Sunni)
  18.  Libya 97%
  19.  Tajikistan 97%[49]

Remarks: Although Islam is the state religion of most Middle Eastern countries,this list excludes Saudi Arabia where 100% of national citizens are Muslims[50], because there is a substantial number of non-Muslim residents there (mostly Hindu and Christian; as well as Buddhist, Sikh and Jewish minorities). So the total Muslim population in Saudi Arabia is around 25 million (20 million native Saudi citizens with 1.5 million Bangladeshis, 1 million Pakistanis, 1 million Egyptians, 600,000 Indonesians, 250,000 Palestinians, and significant Muslim numbers among 1.6 million Indians, 150,000 Lebanese, as well as 100,000 Eritreans) or only about 90% of the total population[51]. Some other Persian Gulf countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates are also excluded due to their large number of non-Muslim foreign immigrants.

Buddhists

Countries with the greatest proportion of Buddhists (included other folk religions) from Buddhism by country (as of 2008):

  1.  Laos 98% (67% practicing)[52][53] (67% Theravada with 31% traditional animist.)
  2.  Cambodia 96%[54] (Theravada, Muslim 3%, Christian and other 2%)
  3.  Mongolia 96% (50% practicing)[55] (Tibetan Buddhism, Muslim 3%, Christian and other 1%)
  4.  Thailand 94.6%[56] (Theravada, Muslim 4%, Christian 0.7%, other 0.3%)
  5.  Japan 93.8%[57](Shinto with Mahayana)(20% to 45% believe in Buddha[58])
  6.  Taiwan 93% (35% practicing)[59] ("Triple religion", Christian 4%, other 2%)
  7.  Hong Kong 90% (10% practicing)[60] ("Triple religion", Christian and others 7%)
  8.  Burma 89% (Theravada, Christian 4%, Muslim 4%, Animism or other 2%) [61]
  9.  Vietnam 85% (15% practicing)("Triple religion", Christian 7%, Cao Dai 3%, other 3%)
  10.  Macau 85% (17%[62] practicing) ("Triple religion", Christian 6%, Atheist or other 3%)
  11.  China 80% (8% practicing) (Triple religion, Atheist 10.5%, Christian 4%, Muslim 1.5%)
  12.  Bhutan 75%[63] (Lamaistic, Hindu 25%)
  13.  Christmas Island 75% (Triple religion, Christian 12%, Muslim 10%, other 3%)
  14.  Sri Lanka 70%[64] (Theravada, Hindu 15%, Christian 7%, Muslim 7%)
  15.  North Korea 67% (5% practicing) (Mahayana with Confucianist, over 90% influenced by Juche[65])
  16.  Singapore 51%[66] (40% practicing) ("Triple religion", Muslim 14.9%, Christian 14.6%, Hindu 4%, other)
  17.  Malaysia 23% (Muslim 60.3%, "Triple religion", Christian 9%, Hindu 6%, other 1.7%)
  18.  South Korea 22.8%[67][68](Mahayana with Confucianist, Christian 29%, other)
  19.  Brunei 15% (Muslim 67%, "Triple religion", Christian 10%, other 8%)
  20.    Nepal 11.4% (Hindu 80.6%, Tibetian Buddhist, Muslim 4%, other 4%)

Remarks: "Triple religion" (or "Chinese-Mahayana Buddhism" or "Far East Asian Buddhism") is the mixture of Mahayana Buddhism, with Taoism and Confucianism. Because officially Communist governments that often forcibly suppressed religious expressions still rule a number of traditionally Buddhist countries, and because Buddhists often practice other traditional East Asian religions, the figures could be much higher in these regions. Mahayana Buddhism in Far East Asian countries has a very wide meaning. That is why in such countries as China, Japan, Vietnam, North and South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are often all considered at once. This is referred to as a "Triple religion", with Gautama Buddha in the center, Laozi in the left, and Confucius in the right. In some regions, such as Japan, belief systems vary with differing emphasis on Shintoism, as well as Ancestor Worship. As such, the Buddhist population is difficult to gauge exactly, but is often nominal. The lesser percentage given is a number of Buddhists who have taken the formal step of going for refuge. And the wider percentage given are informal/nominal adherents of combined Buddhism with its related religions.

In India the scheduled caste and scheduled Tribes(SC/ST) people are mostly accepted Buddhist religion,but due to some reason they are still counting as Hindu by authorities.this people are around 24 cores.so the Buddhist population in India rises.[69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76]. See Buddhism by country and Irreligion.

Hindus

Countries with the greatest proportion of Hindus from Hinduism by country (as of 2008):

  1.    Nepal 80.6%[77]
  2.  India 80.5%
  3.  Mauritius 54%[78]
  4.  Guyana 28%[79]
  5.  Fiji 27.9%[80]
  6.  Bhutan 25%[81]
  7.  Trinidad and Tobago 22.5%
  8.  Suriname 20%[82]
  9.  Bangladesh 9%[83]
  10.  Qatar 7.2%
  11.  Sri Lanka 7%
  12.  Réunion 6.7%
  13.  Malaysia 6.3%[84]
  14.  Bahrain 6.25%
  15.  Kuwait 6%
  16.  United Arab Emirates 5%
  17.  Singapore 4%
  18.  Oman 3%
  19.  Belize 2.3%
  20.  Seychelles 2.1%[85]

Jews

Countries with the greatest proportion of Jews (as of 2007):

  1.  Israel 76.2%
  2.  Palestinian territories 11.09%
  3.  Monaco 3%
  4.  United States 2.5%
  5.  Gibraltar 2.1%
  6.  Cayman Islands 1.71%
  7.  Netherlands Antilles 1.3%
  8.  Canada 1.1%
  9.  France 1%
  10.  Belarus 1%
  11.  Argentina 0.8%
  12.  Hungary 0.8%
  13.  Uruguay 0.75%
  14.  Russia 0.5%
  15.  United Kingdom 0.5%
  16.  Australia 0.45%
  17.  Netherlands 0.3%
  18.  Germany 0.25%
  19.  Georgia 0.22%

Bahá'ís

Countries with the greatest proportion of Bahá'ís (as of 2000):

  1.  Nauru 9.22%
  2.  Tonga 6.09%
  3.  Tuvalu 5.86%
  4.  Kiribati 4.70%
  5.  Tokelau 4.33%
  6.  Cocos (Keeling) Islands 3.72%
  7.  Bolivia 3.25%
  8.  Falkland Islands 2.98%
  9.  Vanuatu 2.78%
  10.  Belize 2.73%
  11.  Samoa 2.37%
  12.  Guyana 2.09%
  13.  United Arab Emirates 1.95%
  14.  São Tomé and Príncipe 1.88%
  15.  Mauritius 1.84%
  16.  Zambia 1.70%
  17.  Dominica 1.61%
  18.  Micronesia 1.61%
  19.  Niue 1.53%
  20.  Marshall Islands 1.50%

Sources: Year 2000 Estimated Baha'i statistics from: David Barrett, World Christian Encyclopedia, 2000; Total population statistics, mid-2000 from Population Reference Bureau [16] and The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004.

Irreligious & Atheist

Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion (including Agnostics and Atheists) (as of 2007):

  1.  Sweden 46-85% (65.5%)
  2.  Japan 64–80%[86] (72%)
  3.  Denmark 43-80% (61.5%)
  4.  Estonia 49-76% (62.5%)
  5.  Norway 31–72% (51.5%)
  6.  Czech Republic 54–61% (57.5%)
  7.  Macau 60.9%[87]
  8.  Finland 28–60%
  9.  Hong Kong 57%[88]
  10.  Netherlands 39-55% (47%)
  11.  Germany 55%[89][90]
  12.  France 43-54% (48.5%)
  13.  South Korea 30-52% (41%)
  14.  Russia [91] 13–48%% (30.5%)
  15.  Hungary 32-46% (39%)
  16.  United Kingdom 31–44% (37.5%)
  17.  Belgium 35-43% (38.75%)
  18.  Bulgaria 30-40% (33.5%)
  19.  Slovenia 30-38% (33.25%)
  20.  New Zealand 34.7%[92]

Note: The estimates of the number of atheists in North Korea, China, Vietnam and other Communist countries may be unreliable. The people in these three nations live under Communist governments which have traditionally suppressed religious freedom and officially (often forcibly) endorsed atheism. Communist countries may or may not make it to the Top 20 most Irreligious countries

By population

Christians

Largest Christian populations (as of 2007):

  1.  United States 234,889,159
  2.  Brazil 169,109,476
  3.  China 104,505,105
  4.  Mexico 103,265,846
  5.  Russia 100,964,426
  6.  Philippines 84,246,490
  7.  Nigeria 62,068,098
  8.  Congo DR 59,176,360
  9.  Germany 56,032,677
  10.  Italy 55,216,284
  11.  Ethiopia 47,131,322
  12.  United Kingdom 43,515,786
  13.  Ukraine 42,572,167
  14.  Colombia 41,938,720
  15.  Spain 38,021,300
  16.  Argentina 37,883,811
  17.  Poland 36,977,511
  18.  South Africa 35,066,269
  19.  France 32,496,275
  20.  Kenya 28,792,702

Muslims

Largest Muslim populations (as of 2007):

  1.  Indonesia 207,000,105
  2.  Pakistan 159,799,666
  3.  India 151,402,065
  4.  Bangladesh 132,446,365
  5.  Egypt 72,301,532
  6.  Turkey 70,047,060
  7.  Nigeria 67,515,582
  8.  Iran 64,089,571
  9.  Morocco 33,723,418
  10.  Algeria 32,999,884
  11.  Afghanistan 31,571,023
  12.  Sudan 27,565,551
  13.  Iraq 26,674,649
  14.  Ethiopia 25,095,899
  15.  Saudi Arabia 24,564,924
  16.  Uzbekistan 24,446,452
  17.  Yemen 22,008,225
  18.  China 19,827,778
  19.  Russia 19,792,885
  20.  Syria 17,383,272

Buddhists

Largest Buddhist populations (as of 2007):

  1.  China 105,748,151 - 1,057,481,510
  2.  Japan 25,486,699 - 57,336,154
  3.  Vietnam 13,641,977 - 72,473,003
  4.  Thailand 61,814,742
  5.  Myanmar 42,636,562
  6.  South Korea 11,427,436 - 24,522,395
  7.  Taiwan 8,000,605 - 21,258,751
  8.  India 16,947,992
  9.  North Korea 466,035 - 15,029,613
  10.  Sri Lanka 14,648,421
  11.  Cambodia 13,296,109
  12.  Laos 4,369,739 - 6,391,558
  13.  Hong Kong 705,022 - 6,282,371
  14.  United States 2,107,980 - 6,022,799
  15.  Malaysia 5,460,683
  16.    Nepal 3,179,197
  17.  Singapore 1,935,029 - 2,781,888
  18.  Mongolia 1,475,893 - 2,774,679
  19.  Indonesia 2,346,940
  20.  Philippines 2,276,932

Hindus

Largest Hindu populations (as of 2007):

  1.  India 930,542,254
  2.    Nepal 25,010,450
  3.  Bangladesh 15,797,076
  4.  Indonesia 4,693,880
  5.  Pakistan 3,327,787
  6.  Sri Lanka 3,138,947
  7.  Malaysia 1,563,741
  8.  United States 1,204,560
  9.  United Arab Emirates 944,352
  10.  Mauritius 625,441
  11.  United Kingdom 607,762
  12.  South Africa 549,973
  13.  Kenya 369,137
  14.  Tanzania 354,458
  15.  Canada 333,901
  16.  Fiji 303,163
  17.  Kuwait 300,667
  18.  Guyana 253,801
  19.  Trinidad and Tobago 237,737
  20.  Singapore 262,120

Jews

Largest Jewish populations (as of 2007):

  1.  United States 6,214,247
  2.  Israel 5,278,274
  3.  Russia 753,382
  4.  France 636,303
  5.  Canada 414,283
  6.  United Kingdom 306,876
  7.  Germany 210,977
  8.  Argentina 202,538
  9.  Ukraine 149,602
  10.  Australia 94,978
  11.  Brazil 93,290
  12.  South Africa 88,994
  13.  Belarus 67,823
  14.  Hungary 60,180
  15.  Mexico 54,350
  16.  Spain 54,073
  17.  Belgium 52,285
  18.  Netherlands 32,780
  19.  Italy 30,728
  20.  Uruguay 30,060

Bahá'ís

Largest Bahá'í populations (as of 2005):[93]

  1.  India 1,823,631
  2.  United States 456,767
  3.  Vietnam 376,328
  4.  Kenya 368,095
  5.  Congo DR 252,159
  6.  Philippines 247,499
  7.  Zambia 224,763
  8.  South Africa 213,651
  9.  Iran 212,272
  10.  Bolivia 206,029
  11.  Tanzania 163,772
  12.  Venezuela 155,907
  13.  Chad 84,276
  14.  Pakistan 79,461
  15.  Myanmar 78,967
  16.  Uganda 78,541
  17.  Malaysia 71,203
  18.  Colombia 68,441
  19.  Thailand 58,208
  20.  UAE 51,744

"Most Baha'i Nations (2005)". QuickLists > Compare Nations > Religions >. The Association of Religion Data Archives. 2005. Retrieved 2009-07-04.

Lists by country

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Vipassana Foundation - Buddhists around the world
  2. ^ "Counting the Buddhist World Fairly," by Dr. Alex Smith
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html#Nonreligious
  5. ^ www.worldchristiandatabase.org
  6. ^ The 2001 edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia stated there were 2.1 billion Christians in the world
  7. ^ http://pewforum.org/Mapping-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx
  8. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/forum/story/2008/03/080323_tibet_analysis.shtml
  9. ^ http://submit.thinkquest.org/TQ0013320/hfund.html
  10. ^ For the year 2000, David B. Barrett (Encyclopedia Britannica and World Christian Encyclopedia, 2001) classified 150,089,508 (2.5% of world's population) as atheists, and 768,158,954 people as "Nonreligious" (12.7% of the world) for a total of 918,248,462 (15.2% of the world).
  11. ^ 457 million is the combined total for "Ethnoreligionists," "Animists," and "Shamanists" from Barrett's 2001 world religion calculations
  12. ^ http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=468&Itemid=206
  13. ^ The American Jewish Year Book published in 2000 by the American Jewish Committee, reports there are currently 5.7 million Jews in the United States, 362,000 in Canada, and 13,191,500 worldwide
  14. ^ Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia (2001)
  15. ^ http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_63.html
  16. ^ http://www.religioustolerance.org/caodaism.htm
  17. ^ Indian Census
  18. ^ World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999). [Source: 1999 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year]; pg. 695.
  19. ^ http://www.letusreason.org/Cults6.htm
  20. ^ http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_314.html#1887
  21. ^ Clarke, Peter B. (editor), The Religions of the World: Understanding the Living Faiths, Marshall Editions Limited: USA (1993); pg. 208. "Sekai Kyuseikyo has about one million members, a growing number of them in the west and the third world, especially Brazil and Thailand. "
  22. ^ Leonard E. Barrett, author of The Rastafarians, estimates there are 800,000 Rastas worldwide
  23. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51641.htm
  24. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gt.html
  25. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127279.htm
  26. ^ International Religious Freedom Report 2007: Samoa. United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (September 14, 2007). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  27. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127399.htm
  28. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ro.html
  29. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tt.html
  30. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108426.htm
  31. ^ http://www.ine.gov.bo/pdf/boletin/NP_2002_65.pdf
  32. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51628.htm
  33. ^ The World Factbook, (2007), Field Listing - Religions Accessed 30 June 2008.
  34. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127278.htm
  35. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127401.htm
  36. ^ "US Department of State - Paraguay - International Religious Freedom Report 2005". Retrieved 2007-06-03.
  37. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pp.html
  38. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127273.htm
  39. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127216.htm
  40. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127378.htm
  41. ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127305.htm
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    CIA - The World Factbook -- Japan: Religions
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    According to Demerath (2001:138), 64% do not believe in God and 55% do not believe in Buddha, [9]
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  89. ^ "God is Dead " wrote German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche in the late 19th century. Today, for the first time in history, most Germans believe him. According to a poll by Der Spiegel magazine, only 45% believe in God, and just a quarter in Jesus Christ.
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