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|note: religious affiliation is still nominal in Azerbaijan; percentages for actual practicing adherents are much lower
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|note: animistic beliefs and practices strongly influence the [[Christianity|Christian]] majority
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|note: officially atheist (2010 est.)
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|note: the majority of foreigners (migratory workers) are [[Islam|Muslim]] (70%) and [[Christianity|Christian]] (20%)
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|note: prior to CASTRO assuming power
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|note: data represents persons at least 16 years of age from five Ecuadoran cities (2012 est.)
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|note: France maintains a tradition of secularism and has not officially collected data on religious affiliation since the 1872 national census, which complicates assessments of France's religious composition; an 1872 law prohibiting state authorities from collecting data on individuals' ethnicity or religious beliefs was reaffirmed by a 1978 law emphasizing the prohibition of the collection or exploitation of personal data revealing an individual's race, ethnicity, or political, philosophical, or religious opinions; a 1905 law codified France's separation of Church and State (2015 est.)
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|note: dismantlement of Israeli settlements was completed in September 2005; Gaza has had no [[Judaism|Jewish]] population since then (2012 est.)
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|note: many Haitians practice elements of voodoo in addition to another religion, most often [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]ism; voodoo was recognized as an official religion in 2003
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|note: total adherents exceeds 100% because many people practice both Shintoism and Buddhism (2012 est.)
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|note: represents the total population; about 69% of the population consists of immigrants (2013 est.)
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|note: non-[[Sunni Muslim]]s include native Ibadhi Muslims (<1% of the population) and foreign Muslims (2010 est.)
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|note: based on the 2013 census of the usually resident population; percentages add up to more than 100% because people were able to identify more than one religion (2013 est.)
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|note: despite having a large expatriate community of various faiths (more than 30% of the population), most forms of public religious expression inconsistent with the government-sanctioned interpretation of Sunni Islam are restricted; non-Muslims are not allowed to have Saudi citizenship and non- [[Islam|Muslim]] places of worship are not permitted (2013)
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|note: Ukraine's population is overwhelmingly Christian; the vast majority - up to two-thirds - identify themselves as Orthodox, but many do not specify a particular branch; the UOC-KP and the UOC-MP each represent less than a quarter of the country's population, the Ukrainian Greek [[Catholic]]Church accounts for 8-10%, and the UAOC accounts for 1-2%; [[Islam|Muslim]] and [[Judaism|Jewish]] adherents each compose less than 1% of the total population (2013 est.)
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|note: represents the total population; about 85% of the population consists of noncitizens (2005 est.)
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[[Azerbaijan]] [[Islam|Muslim]] 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian Orthodox 2.3%, other 1.8% (1995 est.)
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[[Central African Republic]]indigenous beliefs 35%, [[Protestantism|Protestant]] 25%, [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] 25%, [[Islam|Muslim]] 15%
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[[China]] [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] 18.2%, [[Christianity|Christian]] 5.1%, [[Islam|Muslim]] 1.8%, folk religion 21.9%, [[Hinduism|Hindu]] < .1%, [[Judaism|Jewish]] < .1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.2%
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[[Cote d'Ivoire]] [[Islam|Muslim]] 38.6%, [[Christianity|Christian]] 32.8%, indigenous 11.9%, none 16.7% (2008 est.)
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[[Cuba]]nominally [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] 85%, [[Protestantism|Protestant]], [[Jehovah's Witnessl]]es, [[Judaism|Jewish]] , Santeria
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[[Ecuador]] [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] 74%, Evangelical 10.4%, [[Jehovah's Witnessl]] 1.2%, other 6.4% (includes [[Mormonism|Mormon]] [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], [[Judaism|Jewish]] , Spiritualist, [[Islam|Muslim]], [[Hinduism|Hindu]], indigenous religions, African American religions, [[Pentecostal]]), atheist 7.9%, agnostic 0.1%
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[[France]] [[Christianity|Christian]] (overwhelmingly [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]) 63-66%, [[Islam|Muslim]] 7-9%, [[Judaism|Jewish]] .5-.75%, [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] .5-.75%, other .5-1.0%, none 23-28%
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[[Gaza Strip]] [[Islam|Muslim]] 98.0 - 99.0% (predominantly Sunni), [[Christianity|Christian]] <1.0%, other, unaffiliated, unspecified <1.0%
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[[Haiti]] [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] (official) 54.7%, [[Protestantism|Protestant]] 28.5% ([[Baptist]] 15.4%, [[Pentecostal]] 7.9%, Adventist 3%, [[Methodist]] 1.5%, other .7%), voodoo (official) 2.1%, other 4.6%, none 10.2%
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[[Japan]]Shintoism 79.2%, Buddhism 66.8%, [[Christianity|Christian]]ity 1.5%, other 7.1%
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[[Kuwait]] [[Islam|Muslim]] (official) 76.7%, [[Christianity|Christian]] 17.3%, other and unspecified 5.9%
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[[Libya]] [[Islam|Muslim]] (official; virtually all Sunni) 96.6%, [[Christianity|Christian]] 2.7%, [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] 0.3%, [[Hinduism|Hindu]] <.1, [[Judaism|Jewish]] <.1, folk religion <.1, unafilliated 0.2%, other <.1
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[[New Zealand]] [[Christianity|Christian]] 44.3% ([[Catholic]]11.6%, Anglican 10.8%, [[Presbyterian]] and Congregational 7.8%, [[Methodist]], 2.4%, [[Pentecostal]] 1.8%, other 9.9%), [[Hinduism|Hindu]] 2.1%, [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] 1.4%, Maori [[Christianity|Christian]] 1.3%, Islam 1.1%, other religion 1.4% (includes Judaism, Spiritualism and New Age religions, Baha'i, Asian religions other than Buddhism), no religion 38.5%, not stated or unidentified 8.2%, objected to answering 4.1%
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[[Saudi Arabia]] [[Islam|Muslim]] (official; citizens are 85-90% Sunni and 10-15% Shia), other (includes Eastern Orthodox, [[Protestantism|Protestant]], [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]], [[Judaism|Jewish]] , [[Hinduism|Hindu]], [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], and [[Sikhism|Sikh]]) (2012 est.)
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[[Ukraine]]Orthodox (includes Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox (UAOC), Ukrainian Orthodox - Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Ukrainian Greek Catholic, [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]], [[Protestantism|Protestant]], [[Islam|Muslim]], [[Judaism|Jewish]]
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[[United Arab Emirates]] [[Islam|Muslim]] (Islam; official) 76%, [[Christianity|Christian]] 9%, other (primarily [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], less than 5% of the population consists of Parsi, Baha'i, Druze, [[Sikhism|Sikh]], Ahmadi, Ismaili, Dawoodi Bohra [[Islam|Muslim]], and [[Judaism|Jewish]] ) 15%
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[[Western Sahara]]Muslim
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'''Source:''' [[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html The World Factbook by CIA]]
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