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Revision as of 16:22, 17 May 2007
Facts and figures regarding religion in a variety of nations.
See here for a 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 |
| Bettia | c. 100% | |
| Plutoni | 71.4% | |
| San Adriano | 29.7% | |
| Swilatia | 19% | |
| Ariddia | 9.3% | estimate |
Christianity
Christianity total
| Nation | Percentage | Comments |
| Snǿĵgẻrd | 28.57% | |
| San Adriano | 22.8% | |
| Plutoni | 14.3% | predominantly Lutheran, total breakdown unknown. |
| 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 |
| Bettia | 98% | |
| 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 |
| Bettia | 2% | |
| Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Atheism
Atheism total
| Nation | Percentage | Comments |
| Swilatia | 77% | Includes all persons who deny the existance of a god or supreme being, whether or not they follow a religion. However, the vast majority of persons in this group are also of no religion. |
| 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% | |
| Plutoni | 0% | those who have no religion are considered agnostics for statistical purposes. This category does not include Buddhists. |
| Snǿĵgẻrd | 0% |
Agnosticism
Agnosticism total
| Nation | Percentage | Comments |
| Plutoni | 28.6% | |
| 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 |
| Plutoni | 28.6% | mostly Zen |
| 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 |
| Plutoni | 28.6% | deism |
| 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.
- Plutoni protects freedom of the diverse regions in the colony.
- 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, although 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.
- Zwangzug’s laws protect religious freedom. It is predominantly atheist: the religious, Christians especially, can be subject to inaccurate stereotypes, but efforts are being made to reduce this.
