The World Christian Database has a significant amount of demographic data. This data is useful as a foundation for religious demographics. These fields are mostly associated with county data and are extrapolated to people and religions groups based on their population makeup. A summary of the available fields is listed below.
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Data Field Label |
Additional Field Description |
| Characteristics |
Adult % |
Adults in a given country as % of total population |
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Adults |
Population age 15 and over in a given country |
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Birth% |
Birth rate for a given country, % per year |
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Death% |
Death rate, % per year in the country |
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Floor Space |
Floor area per person, sq. meters Country in the country |
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Household Size |
Household size (adults, children) for the country |
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Life Expectancy |
Life expectancy, years for the country |
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Peoples |
Total ethnolinguistic peoples in the country |
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UN Region |
UN major area and region for the country |
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UN Region code |
UN major area and region code for the country |
| Peoples |
Autoglossonym |
People's own name for language |
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Country |
Country of a given people group |
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Culture |
Culture of a given people group |
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Language ID |
Dalby's Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages code |
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Pop 2000 |
Persons in each people group in 2000 |
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Pop 2005 |
Persons in each people group, in 2005 |
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Pop 2025 |
Persons in each people group, in 2025 |
| Provinces |
Area Square km |
Area covered by MCD in square kilometers in a given province |
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Area Square Miles |
Area covered by MCD in square miles in a given province. |
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Note |
Additional descriptive data for a given province |
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Province Capital |
Name of Province's capital city if major civil division has one |
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Province Name |
Name of the major civil division as it is known to its inhabitants |
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World ABC |
A=Less than 50% evangelized, B=50% or more evangelized, C=60% or more Christian for a given province. |
| Cultures |
Adult% |
Adults in a given culture as % total population. |
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Birth% |
Annual birth rate, % per annum in a given culture. |
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Culture ID |
classification of race and ethnic family |
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Culture Name |
Ethnocultural family or local race |
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Death% |
Annual death rate, % per annum for a given culture |
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Migration% |
Annual immigration rate, % per annum for a given culture. |
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Natural Increase% |
Annual natural increase, % per annum for a given culture (= Birth rate% minus death rate%). |
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Pop 1900 |
population of a given ethnocultural family, 1900 |
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Pop 2000 |
population of a given ethnocultural family, 2000 |
| Cities |
Medium Cities |
Cities in the country over 100,000 persons |
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Mega Cities |
Megacities in the country over 1 million persons |
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Metro Pop |
Metropolitan urbanites in the country |
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Metro% |
Metropolitan urbanites as % of country's population |
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Rural Pop |
Ruralites, country-dwellers in the country |
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Rural% |
Ruralites as % of the country's population |
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Small Cities |
Cities in the country over 50,000 persons |
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Urban Pop |
Urbanites, town/city dwellers in the country |
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Urban% |
Urbanites as % of country's population |
| Communication |
Computers |
General purpose computers in use in a given country |
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Faxes per K |
Fax machines per 1,000 persons in the country |
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Internet Users |
No. of users of Internet, e-mail, www in the country |
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Newspapers per K |
Daily newspaper copies per 1,000 persons in the country |
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Phones per K |
Telephones per 1,000 persons in the country |
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Radios per K |
Radio sets per 1,000 persons in the country |
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TVs per K |
TV sets per 1,000 persons in the country |
| Development |
Adult Literacy% |
Literacy rate for a given country as % population over 15 |
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Adult Literates |
Adult literates in a given country (over 15) |
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Dev Index |
1=more; 2=less; 3=least-developed |
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EFL |
Economic freedom level in the country |
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GNP p.c. |
Gross national product p.a. per capita |
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HDI |
Human development index, 0-100 for the country |
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HFI |
Human freedom index, 0-100 for the country |
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HSI |
Human suffering index, 0-100 for the country |
| Education |
Education% |
% of school age population enroled in schools (may be more than 100%) in the country |
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Schools |
Number of elementary, secondary, high schools in the country |
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Universities |
Number of degree-granting colleges, universities in the country |
| Health |
AIDS Deaths |
No. of deaths per annum from AIDS in a given country |
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AIDS Orphans |
No. of children in a given country left orphans by parents with AIDS |
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Blind |
Nonsighted persons in a given country |
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Deaf |
Hearing-impaired persons in a given country |
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Doctors |
Number of doctors in a given country |
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Health Access% |
% of the country's population with access to health services |
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HIV Adults |
HIV adult population in the country |
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HIV Children |
HIV child population in the country |
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HIV per capita |
HIV per capita for the country |
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HIV total pop |
HIV total population in the country |
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Hospital beds per 10k |
Hospital beds, per country's10,000 population |
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Hospitals |
Number of hospitals in the country |
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Infant Mortality |
Infant mortality, per 1,000 live births for the country |
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Lepers |
Persons with leprosy in the country |
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Maternal Mortality |
Maternal mortality, per 100,000 births for the country |
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Murder rate |
Murders per 100,000 per year for the country |
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Water Access% |
% in country with access to safe water |
| Institutions |
Major institutions |
Number of major institutions in the country |
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Major Institutions per M |
Major institutions per million population of the country |
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Minor Institutions |
Minor institutions in the country |
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Minor Institutions per M |
Minor institutions per million in the country |
| Population |
Pop 2000 |
Population in a given city, mid-AD 2000 |
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Pop 2025 |
Population in a given city, mid-AD 2025 |
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Country Pop 1900 |
Country's population in AD 1900 |
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Country Pop 1970 |
Country's population in AD 1970 |
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Country Pop 2000 |
Country's population, mid-AD 2000 |
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Country Pop 2005 |
Country's population, mid-AD 2005 |
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Country Pop 2010 |
Country's population, mid-AD 2010 |
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Country Pop 2025 |
Country's population, in AD 2025 |
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Country Pop 2050 |
Country's population in AD 2050 |
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Pop Density |
Country's density of population per sq. kilometer |
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Pop Growth 2025 |
Country's total population increase in 2025 |
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Pop Growth 2050 |
Country's total population increase in 2050 |
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Pop growth% |
Country's natural population increase, % per year in AD 2000 |
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Pop Growth% 2025 |
Country's natural population increase, % per year in AD 2025 |
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Pop Growth% 2050 |
Country's natural population increase, % per year in AD 2050 |
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AC 2000 |
Affiliated church members in a given province, 2000 |
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AC% 2000 |
Affiliated church members in a given province, %, 2000 |
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E 2000 |
E (population evangelized) in a given province, 2000 |
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E% 2000 |
E (% population evangelized) in a given province, 2000 |
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Province Pop 2000 |
Province population in each MCD in 2000 |
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Province Pop% |
Province population in each MCD as % country |
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Pop Density |
Country's density of population per sq. kilometer |
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Pop growth% |
Country's natural population increase, % per year in AD 2000 |
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Country Pop 2025 |
Country's population, in AD 2025 |
| Church State |
State Religion 1900 |
situation in 1900 in the country |
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State Religion 1970 |
situation in 1970 in the country |
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State Religion 1990 |
situation in 1990 in the country |
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State Religion 2000 |
situation in AD 2000 in the country |
