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Malaysia

Malaysia Religion Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK
Buddhism > Buddhists 5.78 million 2013 6th out of 130
Buddhism > Percent Buddhist 19.5% 2013 9th out of 96
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 33 2014 47th out of 175
Christian > Mormon > Members 8,967 2014 53th out of 195
Christian > Protestant > Jehovah's Witnesses > Av bible studies 7,207 2014 9th out of 25
Christianity > Christians 2.56 million 2014 12th out of 45
Christianity > Percent Christian 9.2% 2014 17th out of 45
Hindu percent of population 7% 2011 9th out of 49
Hindus 1.63 million 2011 8th out of 94
Hindus per thousand people 56.68 2011 13th out of 94
Islam > Percentage Muslim 60.4% 2004 44th out of 167
Jehovahs Witnesses 2,615 2002 98th out of 177
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 0.107 2002 138th out of 158
Major religion(s) Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Christianity, Sikhism 2013
Muslim > Islamist organizations Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party · United Malays National Organisation 2014
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 61.4% 2014 43th out of 184
Muslim > Muslim population 17.14 million 2014 20th out of 177
Religions Muslim 60.4%, Buddhist 19.2%, Christian 9.1%, Hindu 6.3%, Confucianism, Taoism, other traditional Chinese religions 2.6%, other or unknown 1.5%, none 0.8% 2000
Religions > All Muslim, Buddhist, Daoist, Hindu, Christian, Sikh; note - in addition, Shamanism is practiced in East Malaysia 2006
Religious diversity score 0.666 2001 37th out of 214
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 95.5% 2014 27th out of 143
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 3.5% 2014 121st out of 143
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 42,919 2004 50th out of 230
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 1.69 2004 92nd out of 200

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Buddhism by country (Buddhism by Country); Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); Wikipedia: Jehovah's Witnesses by country (Asia); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Wikipedia: Islamism (Parties and Organizations); Wikipedia: Islam by country (Table) ("Muslim Population by Country" . The Future of the Global Muslim Population . Pew Research Center . Retrieved 22 December 2011 .); CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006; Wikipedia: List of countries ranked by ethnic and cultural diversity level (Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fractionalization) (Natalka Patsiurko, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall (2012). "Measuring cultural diversity: ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization in the OECD" . Ethnic and Racial Studies 35 (2): 195–217 . Retrieved September 13, 2012 .); Wikipedia: Importance of religion by country (Countries); adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004; adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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