Source: adpated from Philip M. Parker, Religious Cultures of the World: A Statistical Reference, Greenwood Press, 1997.
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Religions	Latitude (abs degrees)	Temperature: degrees (C)	: monthly high (min C)	: monthly high (max C)	: monthly low (min C)	: monthly low (max C)	Humidity: morning min (%)	: morning max (%)	: afternoon min (%)	: afternoon max (%)	High temp @ max humidity	High humidity @ max temp	Rain: monthly min (mm)	: monthly max (mm)	: days/month min	: days/month max	Snow: persistent (1=yes)	: intermittent (1=yes)	Frost present (1=yes)	Evaporation (1=low)	Barometric pressure: July	: January	Risks: Typhoon (10=high)	: Flooding  (10=high)	: Tropical storm (10=high)	: Windstorm (10=high)	: Drought (10=high)	Climate Type: Tropical wet	: Tropical monsoon	: Tropical wet & dry	: Steppe, low latitude	: Desert, low latitude	: Steppe, middle latitude	: Desert, middle latitude	: Subtropical, humidity	: Mediterranean	: Marine, west coast	: Cont humidity hot sum.	: Cont humidity cool sum.	: Subarctic	: Tundra	: Ice cap	: Dry steppe wasteland	: Temperate highland	: Temp desert dry sum.	: Temp desert dry winter	: Highland	Coastline: length (km)	: length km/cap	Zones: Sea territory	: Continental shelf (m)	: Excl. fish (nm)	: Extend. econ. zone (nm)	: 200-Mi EEZ, area	: Contiguous zone (nm)	Inland waterways (km)	Inland waterways/cap	Water area: (km sq)	: area/cap	Access: Number of ports	: Natural Harbour (1=yes)	: Number of outlets	: Island (1=yes)	: Landlocked (1=yes)	Ships: Number/cap	: tonnage (dwt)/cap	Offshore Reserves  : oil/cap	: gas/cap	Fish supply kgrm/year/cap	Marine Biology: Arctic	: NW American Boreal	: N Pacific, American	: Tropical East Pacific	: South Pacific	: Antiboreal	: Atlantic Boreal	: Atlantic Warm Temp	: Tropical Indo-West-Pacif	: East Asia Boreal	: North Pacific, East Asia	: Indo-Australian	: Tropical Atlantic	Coral reef (1=yes)	Salinities	Ocean circulation	Prevailing Wind: Polar	: Westerlies Zone	: Subtropical	: Monsoon Zone	: Trades Zone	: Intertropical	: Transition	No oceans (1=yes)	Fresh water (cub/kil)	Land: Total Area (km sq)	: Density (pop/km sq)	: # of boundaries	: Total boundary (km)	: Terrain (3=mountains)	Land Usage: Arable %	: Permanent crops %	: Meadows & pastures %	: Forest & woodland %	: Other %	: Irrigated %	: % Protected	: % Partially Protected	Risks: Earthquake (1=high)	: Volcanism	: Soil degradation	: Desertification	: Overgrazing	: Deforestation	Elevation: average (m)	: Highest point (m)	: Lowest point (m)	Timezone (GMT)	Tectonic plate: African	: Eurasian	: Indo-Australian	: Pacific	: American	: Nasca	: Caribbean	Biome: Desert (1=yes)	: Monsoon	: Tropical rain forest	: Savanna	: Mediterranean	: Temperate grassland	: Temperate forest	: Mountain	: Taiga	: Tundra	: Polar	Zoology: Neotropical	: Nearctic	: Ethiopian	: Oriental	: Paleartic	: Australian	World Reserves %: Bauxite	: Antimony	: Barytes	: Beryllium	: Bismuth	: Boron	: Cadmium	: Chromium	: Cobalt	: Copper	: Fluorspar	: Gold	: Indium	: Ind. diamond	: Iron ore	: Kaolin	: Lead	: Lithium	: Magnesium	: Manganese	: Mercury	: Molybdenum	: Nickel	: Niobium	: Phosphate	: Platinium group	: Potash	: Rare minerals	: Rhenium	: Selenium	: Silver	: Sulphur	: Talc	: Tantalum	: Tellurium	: Tin	: Titanium A	: Titanium B	: Tungsten	: Uranium	: Vanadium	: Vermiculite	: Zinc	: Zirconium	Total minerals: % sum	Number of Minerals	Oils reserves (/cap bbl)	Ethnic Groups: # present	: Max % present	Religions: # present	: Max % present	Beliefs: Anglican %	: Buddhist %	: Christian Total %	: Hindu %	: Jewish %	: Islam %	: Protestant Total %	: Roman Catholic %	: Traditional %	Official: Anglican	: Buddhism	: Christianism	: Greek Orthodox	: Hinduism	: Islam	: Luthren Evangelical	: Monotheism	: Orthodox	Languages: # present	: Max % present	: Number official	: None official (1=yes)	Mother Tongue: Arabic %	: Chinese (all) %	: English %	: French %	: German %	: Spanish %	Official: Arabic %	: Chinese %	: English %	: French %	: German %	: Spanish %	Commercial: Arabic %	: Chinese %	: English %	: French %	: German %	: Italian %	: Portuguese %	: Russian %	: Spanish %
Adventist	26	23	31	39	5	18	68	80	44	56	25	50	42	199	4	13	0.3	0.3	0.3	-0.5	1020	1020	0	7	7	0	0	0	0.7	0	0.3	0.3	0.3	0	0.3	0	0	0.3	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	6700	207	10	54	0	200	2190000	21	11200	0.1	56100	0.7	9	0	0	0.7	0	0.5	24	0	0.1	0	0.3	0.3	0.3	0	0	0	0.3	0.3	0	0	0	0	1	0.7	36	0.7	0	0.3	0.3	0	1	0	0	0	127	2570000	189	2	2850	3	20	9	20	11	40	3	3	2	1	0.3	0	0.3	0	0.7	33	3630	-23	-5	0	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0.3	0.7	0	0	0	0.3	0.3	0.3	0	0	0	0.7	1	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.5	5	1	2	10	4	0	0	5	0.1	3	4	0	2	10	4	4	0.1	0	0.7	13	0	0	3	0.1	0.2	4	4	4	3	3	10	0	5	0.1	1	0.1	2	0	0.9	14	4	2	127	10	26000	7	89	16	65	0	0	86	0	0.6	0.7	20	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	96	2	0.3	0	0.1	24	0.9	0.2	2	0	0	27	73	0	0	0	0	0.3	0.7	0	0	0	0	0.3
Afro-Amer. Spiritists	16	25	32	39	10	18	82	87	67	74	28	71	40	142	7	14	0	0	0	-0.1	1020	1010	0	9	0.9	0.1	9	0	1	1	0.9	0	0	0	0.9	0	0.9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6970	89	182	190	0.5	10	2890000	0.1	45200	0.3	50200	0.4	11	0	0	0.1	0	8	157	0	0	0.6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.9	1	1	37	0.1	0	0	0.9	0	1	0.1	0	0	33	7700000	31	9	13300	2	8	1	19	63	8	0.5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	906	2930	0	-4	0	0	0	0	0.9	0	0	0.9	1	0.9	0.9	0	0.9	0.9	0	0	0	0	0.9	0.1	0	0	0	0	12	0	0.9	34	0	0	0.8	0.5	2	0	0	2	0	0.5	0.1	6	0	0.1	2	2	0	0	3	71	0.2	0	0.5	0.3	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	18	0.9	70	0.8	5	0	6	1	2	248	25	18300	8	27	14	61	0.4	0.3	76	0.1	0.1	0.1	8	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	96	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	0	5	0.2	0	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.9	0	0
Aglipayan	11	27	34	38	14	22	85	93	55	74	31	61	13	432	3	24	0	0	0	1	1010	1020	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22500	408	100	0	0	200	1890000	0	3220	0	1830	0	8	0	0	1	0	13	205	0	0	0.6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	34	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	30	300000	222	0	0	3	26	11	4	40	19	5	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	16	2950	0	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.6	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.9	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	5	2220	3	92	11	84	0	0	88	0	0	4	4	84	0.6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	29	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Anglican	41	14	18	35	-7	8	69	87	52	76	11	56	38	87	10	15	0.1	0.9	0.9	0.7	1010	1010	0	0.9	0.1	0.2	0.9	0	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0	0	0.1	0.1	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0.2	12500	559	4	169	164	12	1500000	1	2730	0.1	35300	0.8	7	0	0.1	0.8	0.1	17	297	0.2	0.7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	0.2	0	0	0.1	0	0.2	31	-0.4	0	0.8	0.1	0	0.3	0	0	0	22	1250000	174	2	1150	2	23	1	43	13	19	0.7	2	13	0	0	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	200	2210	64	1	0.2	0.7	0.1	0	0	0	0	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.8	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	0	0.7	0.1	2	0.4	0.1	0.8	2	0	2	2	0.1	0.3	1	2	2	0	2	6	2	2	0.6	2	0	0.2	0.9	0.1	0.6	3	2	0.6	0	0.5	1	0.3	0	2	0.1	1	2	0.7	2	0.1	0.7	1	2	5	54	8	63900	10	70	14	50	44	0.1	82	0.7	0.5	3	58	19	3	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	81	1	0	0.6	0	76	0.7	0.1	0	1	0	99	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Anglican Off.	53	12	14	34	-10	7	70	87	56	81	7	59	37	64	11	15	0	1	1	1	1010	1010	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12400	215	3	200	200	0	943000	0	2750	0	3230	0.1	7	0	0	1	0	8	114	0.2	0.7	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	35	-1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	245000	236	1	360	2	29	0	48	9	14	1	0	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	45	1340	-3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.8	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	15	5	71700	11	81	15	57	57	0.2	87	0.7	0.5	1	72	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	98	1	0	0	0	98	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Animist	6	26	31	36	15	20	93	96	71	82	29	72	41	495	3	18	0	0	0	0	1010	1010	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	515	42	12	200	0	200	105000	0	979	0.1	4460	0.3	2	0	0	0	0	0.6	7	0	0	0.4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	35	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.7	322000	42	5	3110	2	9	4	9	26	52	0	6	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	1750	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7460	7	20	9	37	0	0	20	0	0	20	5	15	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	41	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Armenian Catholic	40	14	17	40	-18	13	60	84	40	70	7	40	10	79	4	12	0.9	0.9	1	0.3	1010	1020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.9	168	35	1	0	0	0	2700	0	0	0	233	0	2	0	0	0	0	10	101	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.8	69800	105	5	1580	3	19	2	20	2	58	56	2	0	0	0	0.1	0.1	0	0.1	647	4570	-12	3	0.1	0.9	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0.6	1	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	75400	7	76	6	63	0	0	44	0	0.5	45	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	76	1	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0.9	0
Atheist	35	12	15	42	-20	15	51	77	47	73	27	69	11	228	3	13	0.9	0.9	1	0.9	1010	1020	8	9	0	0.3	0.3	0	0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.9	0.8	0.9	0	0	0.9	0.9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.9	13800	44	14	32	7	28	706000	2	90700	0.1	234000	0.2	13	0	0	0	0	3	41	0	0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0	0	0	0.1	0.1	0.8	0	0.8	0	0.1	0	34	0	0	0.1	0.1	0.8	0.1	0	0	0	403	8400000	137	11	19600	3	13	0.4	28	18	41	5	1	3	0.9	0.1	0.8	0.9	0	0.8	51	7930	-125	6	0	0.9	0	0	0.1	0	0	0.1	0.8	0.1	0	0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0.8	0.9	0	0.8	41	20	1	15	8	3	0.1	0.1	1	9	0.7	8	0.8	5	3	8	1	24	1	7	10	1	0.9	2	0	3	41	1	1	0.8	6	2	0.1	1	20	12	13	36	1	11	3	4	1	333	26	26100	15	89	10	58	0.1	7	11	0.9	0.2	3	3	7	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	71	1	0.1	0.2	74	6	1	0.4	2	0.2	79	8	2	0.5	1	0	0.8	0.2	0.1	0	0	0	0	0.1
Atheist- Nonrelig.	46	8	15	38	-22	7	74	88	47	77	5	51	18	79	8	12	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	1010	1020	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0.1	0	0.1	0.1	0	0	0	0.1	0.1	0	0.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15900	2810	2	28	28	0	1110000	2	314	0	1230000	130	5	0	0	0.1	0	6	98	0	0.2	2	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.1	8	0	0	0.1	0.1	0	0	0.1	0	0	8	133000	126	0.3	580	3	5	0.4	3	5	78	0.8	7	1	0.1	0.8	0	0.1	0	0.1	34	3800	-2	0.1	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0.1	0.1	0	0	0.1	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.1	0	0	0	0	0.7	0	0.1	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	0.9	9650	6	91	13	46	0.5	0	57	0	0.1	0.1	15	41	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	72	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.8	9	0	0	7	0	0	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.4
Baha'i	16	22	28	39	3	17	63	86	42	69	27	47	17	204	3	14	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.2	1010	1010	1	4	0.2	3	4	0.2	0.3	0.6	0.5	0.2	0	0	0.4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0.3	4890	200	23	101	25	114	1040000	9	9810	0	113000	0.4	6	0	0.2	0.1	0.2	14	287	0.1	0.3	1	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0.5	0	0	0	0.2	0.5	28	0.7	0	0	0	0.1	0.8	0	0	0	123	1740000	139	5	6840	2	24	3	14	32	27	5	6	3	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.7	495	5580	72	3	0.4	0.5	0.3	0	0.1	0	0	0.2	0.3	0.7	0.7	0	0.1	0.1	0.3	0	0	0	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.4	0	1	0.4	5	5	0.6	0.8	2	2	2	1	0.2	0.6	0.6	0.9	2	2	1	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.1	1	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.6	0.4	1	0.4	1	0.5	0.3	1	0.7	1	0.6	4	2	0.4	0.5	0.2	1	3	2	54	9	124000	7	54	11	64	4	5	43	22	0.1	16	11	27	6	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	9	41	2	0	0.6	0.7	3	0.3	0.1	7	1	0.2	61	13	0.2	10	0	0	0.8	0.3	0	0	0	0	0.1
Baptist	44	12	23	41	-25	11	68	81	45	56	7	53	65	115	8	12	1	1	1	0.9	1010	1020	0	0.2	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	19400	150	3	195	0.6	198	7390000	12	39700	0.2	199000	0.8	27	0	0	0	0	11	379	0	0.3	0.4	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	35	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	454	9070000	33	3	9450	3	20	0.3	26	29	25	2	11	6	1	1	0	1	0	0	13	6070	-83	-6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.3	2	17	5	8	37	13	0	0	17	0.4	11	13	0	6	35	15	16	0.4	0	3	47	0.1	0	9	0.4	0.8	15	15	15	11	10	34	0	17	0.3	4	0.4	6	0	3	48	13	6	452	36	92800	18	72	28	24	0.2	0	63	0	2	2	35	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	89	1	1	0.1	0.5	87	0.7	0.6	7	0	0	98	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Buddhism Off.	13	27	36	41	11	22	87	93	55	72	32	60	5	300	1	16	0	0	0	1	1010	1010	0	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2770	54	12	195	0	195	281000	3	3740	0.1	2480	0.1	5	0	0	0	0	4	19	0	0.1	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	31	-0.1	0	0	0	0.8	1	0	0	0	27	458000	101	4