World Religion Database: field definitions

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

Table Field Description
census_locality_religion Census religion ID ID of the census religion (the religion name as reported in the census).
census_locality_religion Census-Locality-Religion ID Unique identifier (primary key) used by the database.
census_religion Adherents % of country Percentage of adherents in this country as reported in this census.
census_religion Census ID Census ID allocated in this database.
census_religion Census religion ID Unique identifier (primary key) used by the database for religions as reported in this census.
census_religion Census religion name Name of the religion as reported in the census.
census_religion Census religion note Census religion note.
census_religion Religion code WRD Religion code.
census_religion Religion ID WRD's Religion ID.
city Capital city Capital city.
city City ID Unique city identifier (primary key) used by the database.
city City name Name of this city.
city Country code Four-letter abbreviation assigned to country for database purposes.
city Country ID ID of the country in which this city is located.
city largest religion code Religion code of the largest religion of this city.
city largest religion pct Percentage of the largest religion of this city.
city Latitude Latitude.
city Longitude Longitude.
city Note Additional descriptive data for this city. The code 'F=' refers to the date in which the city was founded (earliest date of known settlement).
city Pop 2025 Given current trends, this is the projected population for this city, by mid-2025.
city Population Population in this city in mid-2020.
city Religions over 1% Religions over 1% in the city (rounded to integer).
country Adult % Adults (age 15 and over) as percentage of this country's total population. Primary source: United Nations 2022.
country Adults Population of those age 15 and over in this country in 2020. Primary source: United Nations 2022 revision.
country Agnostic % Number of agnostics as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020 These are persons professing no religion, or professing unbelief or non-belief, non-believers, agnostics, freethinkers, liberal thinkers, non-religious humanists, indifference to both religion and atheism, apathetic, opposed on principle neither to religion nor to atheism; sometimes termed secularists or materialists; also post-Christian, dechristianized or de-religionized populations.
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