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The World by Religion
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The following article represents the results of analysis of data on religion for all of the countries of the world which appear in the World Religion Database (Johnson and Grim 2022). The data contained are collected at the national level from a number of sources including censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and others.
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Abstract
The following article represents the results of analysis of data on religion for all of the countries of the world which appear in the World Religion Database (Johnson and Grim 2022). The data contained are collected at the national level from a number of sources including censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and others.
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