World Religion Database: field definitions

Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Religion Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).

Table Field Description
version_2020_country Malaria cases per K Number of malaria cases in 2016 per thousand of the country's population. Primary source: World Health Organization, World Malaria Report 2017 (in HDR 2018).
version_2020_country Male pop Population of males in the country (UN).
version_2020_country Mega Cities Number of megacities in this country whose population exceeds 1 million persons.
version_2020_country Metro % Percentage of the nation's total population that live in a metropolitan area.
version_2020_country Metro Pop Number of people that live in a metropolitan area.
version_2020_country Muslim % Number of Muslims as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020.
version_2020_country Muslims Number of Muslims in this country's population.
version_2020_country Net Worth per capita Net worth per person, 2000, expressed in $US. See Wealth per capita for 2018 data.
version_2020_country New religionist % Number of New religionists (neoreligionists) as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020.
version_2020_country New religionists Number of New religionists (Neoreligionists) in this country's population.
version_2020_country Official name Official name of country.
version_2020_country Peoples Total number of distinct ethnolinguistic people groups in this country. An 'ethnolinguistic people group' is an ethnic or racial group speaking its own language or mother tongue.
version_2020_country Physicians per K Number of physicians per thousand of the country's population. Primary source: World Health Organization (2017) (in HDR 2018: most recent year in the period 2007-2017).
version_2020_country Pop Density Number of persons living in a square kilometer in this country. Primary source: United Nations 2019.
version_2020_country Pop growth % p.a. 2025 Given current trends, by 2025, the country's natural population will increase annually at this percentage rate. A 'natural population increase' is determined by subtracting the number of deaths from the number of births in this country.
version_2020_country Pop growth % p.a. 2050 Given current trends, by 2050, the country's natural population will increase annually at this percentage rate. A 'natural population increase' is determined by subtracting the number of deaths from the number of births in this country.
version_2020_country Pop Growth 2025 Given current trends, the country's population will expand (or decrease, denoted by "-" sign) by this amount by 2025.
version_2020_country Pop Growth 2050 Given current trends, the country's population will expand (or decrease, denoted by "-" sign) by this amount by 2050.
version_2020_country Provinces Major civil divisions (provinces, states) in the country.
version_2020_country Religions over 1% Religions over 1% in the country (rounded to integer).
version_2020_country Religious Conflict Religious conflict Index, 0-10, low is less conflict: a comparative measure of religious violence (persecution, which includes displacement and property damage) and religion-related conflict (civil wars).
version_2020_country Religious Freedom Index Restriction of Religious Freedom Index, 0-10, high is less freedom: Calculated as the country average of government restrictions (GRI) and social restrictions (SRI).
version_2020_country Religious Liberty On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being most freedom): the state of religious liberty in this country. Religious Liberty is defined as the freedom to practice ones religion with the full range of religious rights specified in the UNs 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
version_2020_country Religious Libraries Number of religious libraries in the country in 2000.
version_2020_country Religious libraries per m Number of religious libraries available in this country per million people. Religious libraries are major professional, exclusively-theological or -religious, library collections under religious auspices, specializing primarily in religion, a majority of eachs holdings being religious.
« first previous Page 17 of 21 next last »

Religions

Data on 18 categories of religion, including non-religious, by country, province, and people.

Countries and regions

Data on all religions, Christian activities, and trends.

Denominations

Membership data, year begun, and rates of change.

Cities & provinces

Population and religion data on all major cities & provinces.

Peoples & languages

Detailed information covering religion, culture, and geography.

Archive

A repository of historical data, including a chronology of Christianity from the 1st to 21st centuries.