Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Religion Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| country | Below poverty line % | sdg_1. Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographic location (urban/rural). Primary source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform. |
| country | Birth % | Birth rate for this country as a percentage per year. Source material is expressed as cases per 1000. Primary source: United Nations 2022. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| country | Chinese folk-religionist % | Number of Chinese folk-religionists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. |
| country | Chinese folk-religionists | Number of Chinese folk-religionists in this country's population. |
| country | Christian % | The number of Christians as a percentage of the country's population in 2020. |
| country | Christians | The total number of Christians in this country, 2020. |
| country | Co2 emissions per year | sdg_13. Annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (t) from fossil fuels and industry. Land use change is not included. Primary source: Our World in Data based on the Global Carbon Project (2023). |
| 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. |
| country | Confucianists | Number of Confucianists in this country's population. Confucianists are Non-Chinese followers of Confucius and Confucianism; mostly Koreans and in Korea. |
| 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. |
| country | Country code | Four-letter abbreviation assigned to country for database purposes. |
| country | Country footnote | Note to clarify the areas included in this country. |
| country | Country ID | Unique country identifier (primary key) used by the database. A four-letter code assigned to each country is also unique, but not unchanging. |
| country | Country Name | Name of this country. |
| country | Country Pop 1900 | This figure represents the country's total population in 1900. |
| country | Country Pop 1910 | This figure represents the country's total population in 1910. |
| country | Country Pop 1925 | This figure represents the country's total population in 1925. |
| country | Country Pop 1930 | This figure represents the country's total population in 1930. |
| country | Country Pop 1950 | This figure represents the country's total population in 1950. |
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