Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| people | Confucianists | Confucianist population for this people group in this country. Confucians are non-Chinese followers of Confucius and Confucianism; mostly Koreans and in Korea. |
| people | Country code | Four-letter abbreviation assigned to country for database purposes. |
| people | Country ID | ID of the country in which this people group is located. |
| people | Daoists | Daoist population for this people group in this country. These are followers of one of the 3 major religions of China, regarded as part of Chinese folk religion. |
| people | Ethnic religionists | Ethnic religionist population for this people group in this country. "Ethnic religionists" is a collective term for primal religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to ‘universal’ (open to any or all peoples). |
| people | Ethnic religionists who know Christians | Ethnic religionists who know Christians. |
| people | Ethnicity | The ethnicity or ethnocultural family of this people group. |
| people | Ethnicity ID | The ethnicity code for the ethnicty or ethnocultural family of this people group. |
| people | Hindus | Hindu population for this people group in this country. Followers of the main Hindu traditions: (a) Vaishnavites (Vishnaivites) numbering 70% of all Hindus; (b) Saivites numbering 25% mostly in South India; (c) Saktists or other sects (3%); (d) neo-Hindu movements and modern sects arising out of Hinduism, about 1.5%; and (e) Arya Samaj and other reformist movements, 0.5% (Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, Swami-Narayanis, Ramakrishna Mission, but excluding Jains and Sikhs). |
| people | Hindus who know Christians | Hindus who know Christians. |
| people | Jains | Jain population for this people group in this country. Followers of the Jain reform movement are from Hinduism, composed of the Svetambara and Digambara sects. |
| people | Jews | Jewish population for this people group in this country. |
| people | Language code | Three letter ISO 639-3 language code. |
| people | Language ID | ID number of the primary language spoken by this people. |
| people | Largest religion code | Religion code of the largest religion of this people group. |
| people | Largest religion percent | Percentage of the largest religion of this people group. |
| people | Muslims | Muslim population for this people group in this country. |
| people | Muslims who know Christians | Muslims who know Christians. |
| people | New religionists | New religionist population for this people group in this country. |
| people | Non Christians with gospel access | The number of non-Christians with access to the gospel. |
| people | non-Christians who know Christians | non-Christians who know Christians. |
| people | Note | Additional descriptive data for this people group in this country. |
| people | People % | Persons in this people group as % country. |
| people | People % 2000 | Persons in this people group as % country in year 2000. |
| people | People Name | Name of this ethno-linguistic people group. |
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