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Facts and figures regarding religion in a variety of nations.
See here for a complete list of religions.
Contents
Statistics
The following statistics indicate the percentage of followers of each religion per country, ranked from highest to lowest percentage. Some of these are official government statistics; others (where indicated) are estimates. Please note that the definition of religious adherence may vary from country to country.
Religious population total
Total percentage of the population who express some form of religious or spiritual belief, and/or adhere to a religion.
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 100% | official census statistics |
San Adriano | 29.7% | |
Ariddia | 9.3% | estimate |
Christianity
Christianity total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 28.57% | |
San Adriano | 22.8% | |
Ariddia | 3.2% | estimate |
Bashenk | 3.2% | |
Tika Vanu | n/a | no available statistics, due to the total population being unknown; the population of the coastal and near inland areas, and on the small islands, must confirm to Catholic theocratic legislation, but there is no available data on actual religious beliefs. |
Catholicism
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 28.57% | |
San Adriano | 19.4% | |
Ariddia | 1.6% | estimate |
Tika Vanu | n/a | no available statistics, due to the total population being unknown; the population of the coastal and near inland areas, and on the small islands, must confirm to Catholic theocratic legislation, but there is no available data on actual religious beliefs. |
Eastern Orthodoxy
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Ariddia | < 0.2% | estimate; may be lower than 0.1% |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% | |
San Adriano | 0% |
Protestantism (total)
This category includes a large variety of religions.
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
San Adriano | 3.4% | |
Ariddia | 1.4% | estimate |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Other Christian
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Ariddia | 0.2% | estimate; includes Eastern Orthodoxy |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% | |
San Adriano | 0% |
Islam
Islam total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Bashenk | 5.1% | |
Ariddia | 3.1% | estimate |
San Adriano | 1.4% | |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Judaism
Judaism total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
San Adriano | 5.5% | |
Ariddia | 1.2% | estimate |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Atheism
Atheism total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Swilatia | 77% | |
Ariddia | 76.6% | estimate; does not include persons who define themselves as atheists and as members of a religion simultaneously. Such persons are included solely in the statistics of their respective religions. |
Bashenk | 72.7% | |
San Adriano | 59.2% | |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Agnosticism
Agnosticism total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Ariddia | 14.1% | estimate; does not include persons who define themselves as agnostics and as members of a religion simultaneously. Such persons are included solely in the statistics of their respective religions. |
San Adriano | 11.2% | |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Animism
Animism total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Ariddia | 0.9% | estimate; mostly Indigenous Ariddians |
San Adriano | 0% | |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Buddhism
Buddhism total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Ariddia | < 0.1% | estimate |
San Adriano | 0% | |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Sikhism
Sikhism total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Ariddia | 0.3% | estimate |
San Adriano | 0% | |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
All other
All other total
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 85.71% | indigenous beliefs |
Bashenk | 19.0% | various indigenous religions (18.4%) and unspecified other (06%) |
San Adriano | 0% | In the last census, all Sanadrianese defined themselves as part of one of the categories above. |
Ariddia | n/a | no available statistics; includes a tiny number of Ropatopianists |
Snǿĵgẻrd Islander indigenous beliefs
Nation | Percentage | Comments |
Snǿĵgẻrd | 85.71% |
Religious freedom per country
Sorted alphabetically:
- Ariddia legally protects freedom of religious belief, conscience, expression and worship. Although a majority of the population is atheist, a wide variety of religions are present.
- San Adriano’s laws recognise and protect religious freedom. A variety of religions are present. Due to the country’s small size, members of different religions share a single “multi-faith prayer building”, or make free use of religious facilities across the border in Uhuh-Topia.
- Snǿĵgẻrd’s laws protect freedom of religion, which has never been a contentious issue in this minuscule country.
- Swilatia is mostly atheist, altough many religions exist in Swilatia. While Swilatian law allows people to follow whatever religion they want, the government is avowedly atheist and anti-religion.
- Tika Vanu is a Catholic theocracy. The ni-Tika Vanu population must comply with theocratic legislation. For example, blasphemy is a legal offence, and various activities are prohibited on Sundays.