List of states by the date of adoption of the Reformation edit

Reformation in Germany edit

Political situation in Germany about 1560
Religious situation in Germany and Europe about 1560

Officially, Protestantism remained an exclusively German phenomenon that concerned the Holy Roman Empire through the late 1510s. It did not became an international issue until the 1520s. In 1521, King Gustav I of Sweden broke any contact with the papal authorities in Rome and in 1527, he formally introduced Reformation in his realm (see Reformation in Sweden).

In 1517, the Reformation began with Luther and caught on instantly. Different reformers arose independently of Luther in 1518 (for example Andreas Karlstadt, Philip Melanchthon, Erhard Schnepf, Johannes Brenz and Martin Bucer) and in 1519 (for example Huldrych Zwingli, Nikolaus von Amsdorf, Ulrich von Hutten), and in the following years. Each year drew new theologians to embrace the Reformation and participate in the ongoing, European-wide discussion about faith.

Before princely support edit

The early Reformation in Germany mostly concerns the life of Martin Luther until he was outlawed and excommunicated in 1521.[1]

The exact moment Martin Luther realized the key doctrine of Justification by Faith is described in German as the Turmerlebnis. It is often seen as the breakthrough of the reformational ideas. In Table Talk, Luther describes it as a sudden realization. Experts often speak of a gradual process of realization between 1514 and 1518.

In 1517, Martin Luther was convinced to publish his Ninety-Five Theses, being provoked by the behavior exhibited by Albrecht of Brandenburg, the prince-elector and archbishop of Mainz, who instructed Johann Tetzel to introduce indulgences so that he may have the money to resolve his large debt to both the Pope and the Fugger family of bankers. Luther did not intend for his theses to be translated into German, nor did he think Albert of Mainz knew anything of Tetzel selling indulgences. Albert of Mainz upon receiving Luther's theses intended to silence the monk and notified both the University of Mainz and the Pope of Luther's findings. Perceived by the Catholic hierarchy as "another Hus", Luther went through an interrogation process led by Thomas Cajetan (1517), defended his beliefs in the Leipzig Disputation (1518) against his Catholic opponent Johannes Eck, and eventually before the Holy Roman Emperor and imperial princes at the Diet of Worms (1521). Following the Diet of Worms, Luther was declared an outlaw (vogelfrei) by the Holy Roman Emperor. By then, he was also excommunicated by the Pope. Following the Diet, Luther was captured and brought to safety at Wartburg Castle by Saxon soldiers where he hid until his return to Wittenberg in 1522. Frederick the Wise, the elector of Saxony, ultimately never delivered Luther into the Emperor's authority, claiming he never knew that such person existed.

After the Heidelberg Disputation (1518) and the Leipzig Disputation (1519), the faith issues were more and more brought to the attention of other German theologians throughout the Holy Roman Empire. Other Protestant reformers arose independently from Luther almost immediately throughout Germany. The pace of the Reformation proved unstoppable already by 1520. Reformational ideas and Protestant church services were first introduced in cities, being supported by local citizens and also some nobles. The Reformation did not receive state support until 1525. It was more of a movement among the German people between 1517 and 1525, and then also a political one after 1525.

Princes' Reformation edit

The first state to formally adopt a Protestant confession was the Duchy of Prussia (1525). Albert, Duke of Prussia formally declared Lutheranism to be the state religion. Ducal Prussia was followed by many imperial free cities and other minor imperial entities. The next sizeable territories were the Landgraviate of Hesse (1526; at the Synod of Homberg) and the Electorate of Saxony (1527; Luther's homeland), Electoral Palatinate (1530s) and the Duchy of Württemberg (1534). The reformational wave swept first the Holy Roman Empire, and then extended beyond it to the rest of the European continent.

Germany was home to the greatest number of Protestant reformers that developed the Reformation. Nearly each state that turned Protestant had their own reformers responsible for the implementation of the renewed faith and the foundation of churches. Martin Luther pioneered these activities in Electoral Saxony, where under his own supervision, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony was organized and served as an example for other states.

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Demographics of major traditions within Christianity (Pew Research Center, 2010 data)
Tradition Followers % of the Christian population % of the world population Followers dynamics Dynamics in- and outside Christianity
Catholic Church 1,094,610,000 50.1 15.9 Increase Growing Decrease Declining
Protestantism 800,640,000 36.7 11.6 Increase Growing Increase Growing
Orthodoxy 260,380,000 11.9 3.8 Decrease Declining Decrease Declining
Other Christianity 28,430,000 1.3 0.4 Increase Growing Increase Growing
Christianity 2,184,060,000 31.7 100 Increase Growing Steady Stable

German edit

Pie chart showing the distribution of native German speakers.

  Germany (78.3%)
  Austria (8.4%)
  Switzerland (5.6%)
  Italy (0.4%)
  Other (7.3%)

Demographics edit

Huguenot regions (purple) and royal intervention (red) between 1620 and 1622.

The issue of demographic strengh and geographical spread of the Reformed tradition in France has been covered in a variety of sources. Most of them usually agree that the Huguenot population reached as many as 10% of the total population, or roughly 2 million people on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572.[2][3]

The new teaching attracted sizeable portions of the nobility and urban bourgeoisie. The number of French Protestants steadily swelled to ten percent of the population since John Calvin introduced the Reformation in France, or roughly 1.8 million people in the decade between 1560 and 1570.[4] During the same period there were some 1,400 Reformed churches operating in France.[5] Hans J. Hillerbrand, an expert on the subject, in his Encyclopedia of Protestantism: 4-volume Set claims the Huguenot community reached as much as 10% of the French population on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, declining to 7-8% by the end of the 16th century, and further after heavy persecution began once again with the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV of France.[6]

Among the nobles, Calvinism peaked on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Since then it has been sharply decreasing, as the Huguenots were no more tolerated by the French royalty and Catholic mass. By the end of the sixteenth century Huguenots constituted 7-8% of the whole population, or 1.2 million people. By the time Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, Huguenots accounted for 800,000 to 1 million people.[7]

Huguenots controlled sizeable areas in central and southern France. They used to be nobles in the countryside and merchants, artisans and sailors in the coastal cities. The population around the Massif Central and the area around Dordogne was almost entirely Reformed. John Calvin was a Frenchman and largely responsible for the introduction and spread of the Reformed tradition in France.[8] He wrote in French, but unlike the Protestant development in Germany where Lutheran writings were widely distributed and could be read by the common man, it was not the case in France where only nobles adopted the new faith and the folk remained Catholic. This is true for areas in the west and south controlled by the Huguenot nobility. Although large portions of peasant population became Reformed, the people remained majority Catholic.[9]

Overall, Huguenot presence was heavily concentrated in the western and southern portions of the French kingdom, as nobles there secured practise of the new faith. That included Languedoc-Roussillon, Aquitaine and even streched into the Dauphiné. They lived on the Atlantic coast in La Rochelle, and spread across provinces of Normandy and Poitou. In the south, towns like Castres, Montauban, Montpellier and Nimes were Huguenot strongholds. In addition, a dense network of Protestant villages permeated the rural montainous region of the Cevennes. It continues to be the backbone of French Protestantism to this very day. Roughly four-fifths of all Huguenots lived in the western and southern areas.

Today, there are some Reformed communities around the world that retain their Huguenot identity apart from some Calvinists in the United Protestant Church of France, including a rural community in the Cevennes and around Alsace-Moselle region. Huguenot emigrees in the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa and Australia still retain their identity.[10][11]

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Name Founded Headquarters Membership General Secretary/other leading position Movements Notes
World Evangelical Alliance worldea.org 1846 New York City, New York, United States 600,000,000[12] Efraim Tendero Evangelicals

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Name Founded Headquarters Membership Person in leading position Movements Notes
Anglican Communion anglicancommunion.org unclear; origins traced to the first international Anglican organization, 1698 London, England, United Kingdom 85,000,000[13] Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby
Anglicans
World Methodist Council worldmethodistcouncil.org 1881 Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, United States 80,500,000[14] General Secretary
Bishop Ivan M. Abrahams
Methodists
World Communion of Reformed Churches www.wcrc.ch 2010 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany 80,000,000[15] General Secretary
Chris Ferguson
Reformed
Lutheran World Federation
www.lutheranworld.org
1947 Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland 72,000,000[16] General Secretary
Martin Junge
Lutherans
World Assemblies of God Fellowship
worldagfellowship.org
1988 Springfield, Missouri, United States 68,000,000[17] General Superintendent & Chairman
George O. Wood
Pentecostals
Baptist World Alliance
bwanet.org
1905 Falls Church, Virginia, United States 42,000,000[18] General Secretary

Neville Callam

Baptists

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Name Founded Headquarters Membership Person in leading position Movements Notes
Church of England
churchofengland.org
597; 1534 separated from the Roman Catholic Church London, England, United Kingdom 26,000,000[19] Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby
Anglicans
Church of Christ in Congo
ecc.faithweb.com
1970 Kinshasa, Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo 25,500,000[20] President
Pierre Marini Bodho
Methodists
Pentecostals
Baptists
Mennonites
Reformed
Evangelicals
United Protestant[21]
Evangelical Church in Germany
ekd.de
1948 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany 24,300,000[22] Praeses of the Synod
Irmgard Schwätzer
Chairman of the Council of the EKD
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
Prussian United
Lutheran
Reformed
Three-Self Patriotic Movement
1951 Shanghai, People's Republic of China 23,000,000[23] Chairperson
Fu Xianwei
Secretary General
Xu Xiaohong
State-controlled theology; various Protestants
Assembleias de Deus
www.adbelem.com.br
1911 São Paulo, Brazil 22,500,000[24] General Superintendent
José Wellington Bezerra da Costa
Pentecostals
Church of Nigeria
www.anglican-nig.org
1979 Abuja, Nigeria 18,000,000[25] Primate of all Nigeria, Archbishop of Abuja Province

Nicholas Okoh

Anglicans
Southern Baptist Convention
www.sbc.net
1845 Augusta, Georgia, United States 16,000,000[26] President

Dr. Ronnie Floyd

Baptists
Fangcheng Fellowship
1971 10,000,000[27] Evangelicals
Church of Uganda
churchofuganda.org
1897 Namirembe Hill, Kampala District, Uganda 8,800,000[28] Archbishop of Uganda and Bishop of Kampala

Stanley Ntagali

Anglicans
China Gospel Fellowship
8,000,000[29] Evangelicals
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
www.nationalbaptist.com
1880 Montgomery, Alabama, United States 7,500,000[30] President
Rev. Jerry Young
Baptists
Church of Sweden
svenskakyrkan.se
1593 Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden 6,400,000[31] Archbishop of Uppsala
Antje Jackelén
Lutherans
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
www.elct.org
1963 Arusha, Arusha Region, Tanzania 6,100,000[32] Bishop

Rev. Dr. Fredrick Onael Shoo

Lutherans
Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus
www.eecmy.org
1959 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 5,300,000[33] Bishop

Rev. Dr. Wakseyoum Idossa

Lutherans

GGG edit

 
Countries with state religion.
  Protestantism (including Anglicanism)
   
  Islam
   
 
Countries with state religion (detailed).
   
  Islam
      

Chan edit

Every German Chancellor was a follower of a Christian church. German society has been affected by the Catholic-Protestant divide since the Protestant Reformation, and the same effect is visible in this list of German Chancellors. It is largely dominated by Roman Catholics and Lutherans as these remain the main confessions in the country. One chancellor was Reformed (Calvinist). Although there were some religiously sceptic chancellors, such as Friedrich Ebert, they never officially renounced their faith and were given a Christian funeral. A significant portion of Protestant chancellors belonged to the Prussian Union of churches, which united the Reformed and Lutheran confessions throughout the Kingdom of Prussia, and was in force since 1817. Roman Catholic chancellors during Imperial Germany came from the Catholic Centre Party, while Protestants.

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North German Confederation edit

Name Term Religious affiliation
1 Otto von Bismarck 1867–1871 Lutheran

Germany edit

Name Term Religious affiliation
1 Otto von Bismarck 1871–1890 Lutheran
2 Leo von Caprivi 1890–1894 Lutheran
3 Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1894–1900 Roman Catholic
4 Bernhard von Bülow 1900–1909 Lutheran
5 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg 1909–1917 Lutheran
6 Georg Michaelis 1917 Lutheran
7 Georg von Hertling 1917–1918 Roman Catholic
8 Max von Baden 1918 Roman Catholic
9 Friedrich Ebert 1918–1919 Roman Catholic
10 Philipp Scheidemann 1919 Reformed
11 Gustav Bauer 1919–1920 Lutheran
12 Hermann Müller 1920 Unknown
13 Constantin Fehrenbach 1920-1921 Roman Catholic
14 Joseph Wirth 1921–1922 Roman Catholic
15 Wilhelm Cuno 1922–1923 Roman Catholic
16 Gustav Stresemann 1923 Lutheran
17 Wilhelm Marx 1923–1925 Roman Catholic
18 Hans Luther 1925–1926 Lutheran
19 Wilhelm Marx 1926–1928 Roman Catholic
20 Hermann Müller 1928-1930 Unknown
21 Heinrich Brüning 1930-1932 Roman Catholic
22 Franz von Papen 1932 Roman Catholic
23 Kurt von Schleicher 1932–1933 Lutheran
24 Adolf Hitler 1933–1945 initially Roman Catholic, see details
25 Joseph Goebbels 1945 initially Roman Catholic
26 Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk 1945 Lutheran
N/A Vacant 1945-1949 N/A
27 Konrad Adenauer 1949–1963 Roman Catholic
28 Ludwig Erhard 1963–1966 Lutheran
29 Kurt Georg Kiesinger 1966–1969 Roman Catholic
30 Willy Brandt 1969–1974 Lutheran
31 Walter Scheel 1974 Lutheran
32 Helmut Schmidt 1974–1982 Lutheran
33 Helmut Kohl 1982–1998 Roman Catholic
34 Gerhard Schröder 1998-2005 Lutheran
35 Angela Merkel 2005–present Lutheran

Religion edit

Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2013)

  Catholicism (36.8%)
  Protestantism (32%)
  Other Christian (11.2%)
  Sunni Islam (6%)
  Shia Islam (1.2%)
  Ahmadiyya Islam (0.7%)
  Other Muslims (4.1%)
  Other or non-specified (1%)
  Unaffiliated (4%)

Table edit

Country/Region[34] Protestant population
2010 Pew Report[34]
Protestant percentage (%) of total population
2010 Pew Report[34]
Percentage (%) of World Protestant population
2010 Pew Report[34]
Protestant population
Other sources
Protestant percentage (%)
Other sources
  Afghanistan 29,047,000 0.1 1.8
  Albania 2,601,000 - 0.2
  Algeria 34,780,000 0.2 2.1
  American Samoa < 1,000 72 < 0.1
  Andorra 1,000 - < 0.1
  Angola 195,000 30.7 < 0.1
  Anguilla < 1,000 73.5 < 0.1
  Antigua and Barbuda < 1,000 85.6 < 0.1
  Argentina 1,000,000 7.3 0.1
  Armenia 1,000 2.2 < 0.1
  Aruba < 1,000 9.85 < 0.1
  Australia 399,000 38.7 < 0.1
  Austria 475,000 5.1 < 0.1
  Azerbaijan 8,795,000 0.2 0.5
  Bahamas < 1,000 79.2 < 0.1
  Bahrain 655,000 4.9 < 0.1
  Bangladesh 148,607,000 0.1 9.2
  Barbados 2,000 86.9 < 0.1
  Belarus 19,000 0.9 < 0.1
  Belgium 638,000 1.4 < 0.1
  Belize < 1,000 35.1 < 0.1
  Benin 2,259,000 22.3 0.1
  Bermuda < 1,000 62.3 < 0.1
  Bhutan 7,000 - < 0.1
  Bolivia 2,000 13 < 0.1
  Bosnia-Herzegovina 1,564,000 - 0.1
  Botswana 8,000 65 < 0.1
  Brazil 204,000 20.8 < 0.1
  British Virgin Islands < 1,000 72 < 0.1
  Brunei 211,000 4.8 < 0.1
  Bulgaria 1,002,000 0.5 0.1
  Burkina Faso 9,600,000 4.4 0.6
  Burma (Myanmar) 1,900,000 5.3 0.1
  Burundi 184,000 19.8 < 0.1
  Cambodia 240,000 0.3 < 0.1
  Cameroon 3,598,000 31 0.2
  Canada 940,000 27.3 0.1
  Cape Verde < 1,000 7.8 < 0.1
  Cayman Islands < 1,000 70.5 < 0.1
  Central African Republic 403,000 59.3 < 0.1
  Chad 6,404,000 16.9 0.4
  Chile 4,000 15.6 < 0.1
  China 23,308,000 4.3 1.4
  Colombia 14,000 10.2 < 0.1
  Comoros 679,000 - < 0.1
  Congo 969,000 48.1 0.1
  Cook Islands < 1,000 51.1 < 0.1
  Costa Rica < 1,000 23.2 < 0.1
  Croatia 56,000 0.2 < 0.1
  Cuba 10,000 5.7 < 0.1
  Cyprus 200,000 - < 0.1
  Czech Republic 4,000 3.4 < 0.1
  Denmark 226,000 82.2 < 0.1
  Djibouti 853,000 - 0.1
  Dominica < 1,000 27.5 < 0.1
  Dominican Republic 2,000 21 < 0.1
  Ecuador 2,000 9.6 < 0.1
  Egypt 80,024,000 0.4 4.9
  El Salvador 2,000 35.7 < 0.1
  Equatorial Guinea 28,000 3.8 < 0.1
  Eritrea 1,909,000 0.8 0.1
  Estonia 2,000 20.9 < 0.1
  Ethiopia 28,721,000 19 1.8
  Faroe Islands < 1,000 100 < 0.1
  Falkland Islands < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Federated States of Micronesia < 1,000 48.7 < 0.1
  Fiji 54,000 54 < 0.1
  Finland 42,000 80.4 < 0.1
  France 4,704,000 1.8 0.3
  French Guiana 2,000 4.3 < 0.1
  French Polynesia < 1,000 41.2 < 0.1
  Gabon 145,000 24 < 0.1
  Gambia 1,669,000 17.1 0.1
  Georgia 442,000 0.5 < 0.1
  Germany 4,119,000 34.8 0.3
  Ghana 3,906,000 61.2 0.2
  Gibraltar 1,000 - < 0.1
  Greece 527,000 0.3 < 0.1
  Greenland < 1,000 89.3 < 0.1
  Grenada < 1,000 45.6 < 0.1
  Guadeloupe 2,000 7.4 < 0.1
  Guam < 1,000 16.6 < 0.1
  Guatemala 1,000 35.7 < 0.1
  Guinea 8,693,000 3.3 0.5
  Guinea Bissau 705,000 1.8 < 0.1
  Guyana 55,000 48.6 < 0.1
  Haiti 2,000 29.9 < 0.1
  Honduras 11,000 34.6 < 0.1
  Hong Kong 91,000 9.5 < 0.1
  Hungary 25,000 21.6 < 0.1
  Iceland < 1,000 91.3 < 0.1
  India 177,286,000 1.5 10.9
  Indonesia 204,847,000 5.8 12.7
  Iran 74,819,000 0 4.6
  Iraq 31,108,000 0.3 1.9
  Ireland 43,000 5.1 < 0.1
  Isle of Man < 1,000 71 < 0.1
  Israel 1,287,000 0.4 0.1
  Italy 1,583,000 1.3 0.1
  Ivory Coast 7,960,000 20.8 0.5
  Jamaica 1,000 74 < 0.1
  Japan 185,000 0.7 < 0.1
  Jordan 6,397,000 0.3 0.4
  Kazakhstan 8,887,000 1.9 0.5
  Kenya 2,868,000 59.6 0.2
  Kiribati < 1,000 39.7 < 0.1
  Kosovo 2,104,000 - 0.1
  Kuwait 2,636,000 0.8 0.2
  Kyrgyzstan 4,927,000 1.8 0.3
  Laos 1,000 1 < 0.1
  Latvia 2,000 20 < 0.1
  Lebanon 2,542,000 1 0.2
  Lesotho 1,000 57 < 0.1
  Liberia 523,000 74.1 < 0.1
  Libya 6,325,000 0.2 0.4
  Liechtenstein 2,000 - < 0.1
  Lithuania 3,000 1.5 < 0.1
  Luxembourg 11,000 4 < 0.1
  Macau < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Macedonia 713,000 - < 0.1
  Madagascar 220,000 40.3 < 0.1
  Malawi 2,011,000 58.8 0.1
  Malaysia 17,139,000 4.4 1.1
  Maldives 309,000 - < 0.1
  Mali 12,316,000 0.9 0.8
  Malta 1,000 - < 0.1
  Marshall Islands < 1,000 73.5 < 0.1
  Martinique < 1,000 10 < 0.1
  Mauritania 3,338,000 - 0.2
  Mauritius 216,000 0.8 < 0.1
  Mayotte 197,000 - < 0.1
  Mexico 111,000 8.36 < 0.1
  Moldova 15,000 1.4 < 0.1
  Monaco < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Mongolia 120,000 1.4 < 0.1
  Montenegro 116,000 - < 0.1
  Montserrat < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Morocco 32,381,000 - 2.0
  Mozambique 5,340,000 28.2 0.3
  Namibia 9,000 75.9 < 0.1
  Nauru < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Nepal 1,253,000 0.5 0.1
  Netherlands 914,000 21.9 0.1
  Netherlands Antilles < 1,000 13.1 < 0.1
  New Caledonia 7,000 32.3 < 0.1
  New Zealand 41,000 40.5 < 0.1
  Nicaragua 1,000 26.3 < 0.1
  Niger 15,627,000 0.5 1.0
  Nigeria 75,728,000 37.7 4.7
  Niue < 1,000 - < 0.1
  North Korea 3,000 1.8 < 0.1
  Northern Mariana Islands < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Norway 144,000 83.8 < 0.1
  Oman 2,547,000 1.4 0.2
  Pakistan 178,097,000 1.1 11.0
  Palau < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Palestinian territories 4,298,000 0.7 0.3
  Panama 25,000 16.6 < 0.1
  Papua New Guinea 2,000 69.5 < 0.1
  Paraguay 1,000 6.3 < 0.1
  Peru < 1,000 12.3 < 0.1
  Philippines 4,737,000 10.7 0.3
  Pitcairn Islands < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Poland 20,000 0.4 < 0.1
  Portugal 65,000 1.6 < 0.1
  Puerto Rico 1,000 25.26 < 0.1
  Qatar 1,168,000 2.9 0.1
  Republic of Congo 60,000 55.3 < 0.1
  Reunion 35,000 7.2 < 0.1
  Romania 73,000 6.3 < 0.1
  Russia 16,379,000 1.8 1.0
  Rwanda 188,000 44.3 < 0.1
  St. Helena < 1,000 13.9 < 0.1
  St. Kitts and Nevis < 1,000 77.6 < 0.1
  St. Lucia < 1,000 28.8 < 0.1
  St. Pierre and Miquelon < 1,000 - < 0.1
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2,000 87.4 < 0.1
  Samoa < 1,000 65.5 < 0.1
  San Marino < 1,000 - < 0.1
  São Tomé and Príncipe < 1,000 10.7 < 0.1
  Saudi Arabia 25,493,000 0.4 1.6
  Senegal 12,333,000 0.2 0.8
  Serbia 280,000 1.4 < 0.1
  Seychelles < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Sierra Leone 4,171,000 13.9 0.3
  Singapore 721,000 10.8 < 0.1
  Slovakia 4,000 10 < 0.1
  Slovenia 49,000 1 < 0.1
  Solomon Islands < 1,000 77.3 < 0.1
  Somalia 9,231,000 - 0.6
  South Africa 737,000 72.9 < 0.1
  South Korea 75,000 17.3 < 0.1
  South Sudan 27.1
  Spain 1,021,000 1 0.1
  Sri Lanka 1,725,000 0.9 0.1
  Sudan 30,855,000 2 1.9
  Suriname 84,000 20.7 < 0.1
  Swaziland 2,000 91.9 < 0.1
  Sweden 451,000 64.7 < 0.1
  Switzerland 433,000 36.2 < 0.1
  Syria 20,895,000 0.2 1.3
  Taiwan 23,000 4.1 < 0.1
  Tajikistan 7,006,000 0.1 0.4
  Tanzania 13,450,000 28.4 0.8
  Thailand 3,952,000 0.5 0.2
  Timor-Leste 1,000 1.7 < 0.1
  Togo 827,000 16.6 0.1
  Tokelau < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Tonga < 1,000 67.7 < 0.1
  Trinidad and Tobago 78,000 38.7 < 0.1
  Tunisia 10,349,000 - 0.6
  Turkey 74,660,000 0.1 4.6
  Turkmenistan 4,830,000 0.5 0.3
  Turks and Caicos Islands < 1,000 95.4 < 0.1
  Tuvalu < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Uganda 4,060,000 46.6 0.3
  Ukraine 393,000 1.3 < 0.1
  United Arab Emirates 3,577,000 1.2 0.2
  United Kingdom 2,869,000 54.5 0.2
  United States 2,595,000 51.5 0.2
  U.S. Virgin Islands < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Uruguay < 1,000 6.3 < 0.1
  Uzbekistan 26,833,000 0.8 1.7
  Vanuatu < 1,000 77.5 < 0.1
  Vatican City 0 - 0
  Venezuela 95,000 10.1 < 0.1
  Vietnam 160,000 1.6 < 0.1
  Wallis and Futuna < 1,000 - < 0.1
  Western Sahara 528,000 - < 0.1
  Yemen 24,023,000 0.1 1.5
  Zambia 59,000 66.9 < 0.1
  Zimbabwe 109,000 66.4 < 0.1
South & Southeast Asia 1,005,507,000 24.8 62.1
Middle East-North Africa 321,869,000 91.2 19.9
Sub-Saharan Africa 242,544,000 29.6 15.0
Europe 44,138,000 6.0 2.7
Americas 5,256,000 0.6 0.3
World Total 1,619,314,000 23.4 100.0
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