Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
Table | Field | Description |
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version_2020_country | Country Pop 1970 | This figure represents the country's total population in 1970. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2000 | This figure represents the country's total population in 2000. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2005 | This figure represents the country's total population in 2005. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2010 | This figure represents the country's total population in 2010. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2015 | This figure represents the country's total population in 2015. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2020 | This figure represents the country's total population in 2020. [primary source: UN: World Population Prospects: The 2019 Revision]. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2020 (base year) | This figure represents the country's total population in 2020. [primary source: UN: World Population Prospects: The 2019 Revision]. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2021 | Given current trends, this figure represents a projection of this country's population by mid 2021. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2022 | Given current trends, this figure represents a projection of this country's population by mid 2022. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2023 | Given current trends, this figure represents a projection of this country's population by mid 2023. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2024 | Given current trends, this figure represents a projection of this country's population by mid 2024. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2025 | Given current trends, this figure represents a projection of this country's population by mid 2025. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2030 | Given current trends, this figure represents a projection of this country's population by mid 2030. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2050 | Given current trends, this figure represents a projection of this country's population by mid 2050. |
version_2020_country | Country Pop 2100 | Given current trends, this figure represents a projection of this country's population by mid 2100. |
version_2020_country | Daoist % | Number of Daoists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. These are followers of one of the 3 major religions of China, regarded as part of Chinese folk religion. |
version_2020_country | Daoists | Number of Daoists in this country's population. These are followers of one of the 3 major religions of China, regarded as part of Chinese folk religion. |
version_2020_country | Death % | Death 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 | Denominations | Number of denominations in this country. |
version_2020_country | Denominations per m | Number of denominations per million of this country's population. |
version_2020_country | Doubly-affiliated | Persons counted as belonging to 2 or more religions, hence counted twice in censuses. |
version_2020_country | Education % | Population with at least some secondary education (% aged 25 and above). Primary source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018) or Barro and Lee (2016) (in HDR 2018: most recent year in the period 2006-2017). |
version_2020_country | Ethnic religionist % | Number of Ethnic religionists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. "Ethnic religionists" is a collective term for primal religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to ‘universal’ (open to any or all peoples). |
version_2020_country | Ethnic religionists | Number of Ethnic religionists in this country's population. "Ethnic religionists" is a collective term for primal religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to ‘universal’ (open to any or all peoples). |
version_2020_country | Ethnic religionists who know Christians | Ethnic religionists who know Christians. |
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