Updates

The World Religion database is updated twice a year, generally in January and July.

Africa survey data

01 Oct 2012

94 surveys conducted in Africa

Data released this quarter comes from 94 surveys conducted in Africa including 24 Gallup World Polls, 21 Afrobarometer surveys, 19 countries in the Pew Africa study, and 13 Pew Global Attitudes Project surveys. Years of study range from 1981 to 2010 but are mainly 2006, 2008 or 2010. The full listing of new survey data is available in the query "Survey data added this quarter" on the Censuses and Surveys page.

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Country memberships

01 Jul 2012

allows religious populations to be easily analyzed by groups of countries

A new feature of the World Religion Database allows religious populations and other country data to be easily analyzed by groups of countries
(for example "NATO", "Middle East", or "Post World War 2 independence states"). See the query "All country groups
and organizations" and other sample queries on the "Country/Region" page . Users can also add
Country memberships fields to existing queries to allow group selection in any query based on the country table.

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Religions

All major world religions, available by geographic region and people groups.

Geography

Comprehensive country religious makeup, demographics, and trends.

Religious diversity

Religious Diversity Index (RDI) and counts of religions over 10%, over 5%, and over 0.5%.

Contextual data

Population data by country, plus socio-economic, health, environment, and gender indicators.

Censuses

Historical and current census data on religion by country.