Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Religion Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| version_2015_survey_religion | WRD Religion | Religion ID. |
| version_2020_country | Adult % | Adults (age 15 and over) as percentage of this country's total population. Primary source: United Nations 2019. |
| version_2020_country | Adult literacy % | The ability to read and write, as measured by the percentage of the population ages 15 and older who can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on their everyday life. Primary source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018) (in HDR 2018: most recent year in the period 2006-2016). |
| version_2020_country | Adult literates | The ability to read and write, as measured by the percentage of the population ages 15 and older who can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on their everyday life. Primary source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018) (in HDR 2018: most recent year in the period 2005-2018). |
| version_2020_country | Adults | Population of those age 15 and over in this country in 2020. Primary source: United Nations 2019 revision. |
| version_2020_country | Agnostic % | Number of agnostics as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020 These are persons professing no religion, or professing unbelief or non-belief, non-believers, agnostics, freethinkers, liberal thinkers, non-religious humanists, indifference to both religion and atheism, apathetic, opposed on principle neither to religion nor to atheism; sometimes termed secularists or materialists; also post-Christian, dechristianized or de-religionized populations. |
| version_2020_country | Agnostics | Number of agnostic persons in this country's population. These are persons professing no religion, or professing unbelief or non-belief, non-believers, agnostics, freethinkers, liberal thinkers, non-religious humanists, indifference to both religion and atheism, apathetic, opposed on principle neither to religion nor to atheism; sometimes termed secularists or materialists; also post-Christian, dechristianized or de-religionized populations. |
| version_2020_country | All languages count | Count of all ISO languages spoken as the primary language of peoples in this country. |
| version_2020_country | Atheist % | Number of atheists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. Atheists are militantly anti-religious or anti-Christian agnostics, secularists, or marxists. |
| version_2020_country | Atheists | Number of Atheists in this country's population. Atheists are persons professing atheism, skepticism, impiety, disbelief or irreligion, or Marxist-Leninist Communism regarded as a political faith, or other quasi-religions, and who abstain from religious activities and have severed all religious affiliation; and others opposed, hostile or militantly opposed to all religion (anti-religious); dialectical materialists, militant non-believers, anti-religious humanists, skeptics. |
| version_2020_country | Baha'i % | Number of Baha’is as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. Baha’is are followers of the Baha’i World Faith, founded by Baha’u’llah, since 1844. In government censuses Baha’is are usually counted as Muslims or Hindus and not shown separately. |
| version_2020_country | Baha'is | Number of Baha’is in this country's population. Baha’is are followers of the Baha’i World Faith, founded by Baha’u’llah, since 1844. In government censuses Baha’is are usually counted as Muslims or Hindus and not shown separately. |
| version_2020_country | Birth % | Birth rate for this country as a percentage per year. Source material is expressed as cases per 1000. Primary source: United Nations 2019. |
| version_2020_country | Buddhist % | Number of Buddhists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. Followers of the Buddha, include: (a) Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) or Northern Buddhism; (b) Theravada (Teaching of the Elders) or Southern Buddhism, stigmatized by Mahayanists as Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle, i.e. available to fewer people), actually the older, purer form of Buddhism; (c) Vajrayana, Mantrayana, Guhyamantrayana, or Tantrayana (Esoteric Vehicle), known as Tantrism, Shingon or Lamaism; and (d) traditional Buddhist sects, but excluding neo-Buddhist new religions or religious movements. |
| version_2020_country | Buddhists | Number of Buddhists in this country's population. Followers of the Buddha, including: (a) Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) or Northern Buddhism; (b) Theravada (Teaching of the Elders) or Southern Buddhism, stigmatized by Mahayanists as Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle, i.e. available to fewer people), actually the older, purer form of Buddhism; (c) Vajrayana, Mantrayana, Guhyamantrayana, or Tantrayana (Esoteric Vehicle), known as Tantrism, Shingon or Lamaism; and (d) traditional Buddhist sects, but excluding neo-Buddhist new religions or religious movements. |
| version_2020_country | Chinese folk-religionist % | Number of Chinese folk-religionists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. |
| version_2020_country | Chinese folk-religionists | Number of Chinese folk-religionists in this country's population. |
| version_2020_country | Christian % | The number of Christians as a percentage of the country's population in 2020. |
| version_2020_country | Christians | The total number of Christians in this country, 2020. |
| version_2020_country | Cities | Number of cities in this country whose population exceeds 300,000 persons (or smaller capital cities). |
| version_2020_country | Confucianist % | Number of Confucianist as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. Confucians are non-Chinese followers of Confucius and Confucianism; mostly Koreans and in Korea. |
| version_2020_country | Confucianists | Number of Confucianists in this country's population. Confucianists are Non-Chinese followers of Confucius and Confucianism; mostly Koreans and in Korea. |
| version_2020_country | Corruption Index | Transparency International's "Corruption Perceptions Index" (CPI) measures the perceived levels of public-sector corruption in a given country. Expressed here in reverse so that higher values indicate higher levels of corruption. Primary source: Transparency International, 2019. |
| version_2020_country | Country footnote | Note to clarify the areas included in this country. |
| version_2020_country | Country ID | Unique country identifier (primary key) used by the database. A four-letter abbreviation or code assigned by WCD to each country is also unique, but not unchanging. |
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