Can you name the 90% One-Religion Countries? by Flick

Can you name the 90% One-Religion Countries?

created by Flick

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Source: CIA factfile + others
For the purpose of this quiz Islam is broken down into Sunni Muslim and Shia Muslim (Data as of Feb 2012)
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Sunni Muslim

Roman Catholic

Buddhist

Evangelical Lutheran

Greek Orthodox

Armenian Apostolic

Church of Tuvalu

Eastern Orthodox

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90% One-Religion Countries Quiz

by Flick

Created Feb 4, 2012 in Religion
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	Q_Pheevr:	Feb 4th, 2012 at 16:03 GMT	1 point
	I don't completely understand how you've treated Islam here. I thought that what you meant was that you had created a separate category for countries that are 90% or more Sunni, and then the general "Muslim" category was for countries that are 90% or more Muslim, with some other mix of Sunni and Shia. But then shouldn't that include Pakistan (which your CIA source lists as "Muslim 95% (Sunni 75%, Shia 20%)") and Afghanistan ("Sunni Muslim 80%, Shia Muslim 19%") and a few others as well? Or have I misunderstood the categories?

	Flick:	Feb 4th, 2012 at 17:01 GMT	4 points
	@Q_Pheevr: thanx for the comment, I've added 'Shia' to the first heading. Countries have to be 90% Sunni or 90% Shia to qualify, hence the omission of Afghanistan and others. It is the similar with the Roman Catholic countries, lots of countries would qualify for 90% Christian, rather less for 90% Roman Catholic.

	Q_Pheevr:	Feb 4th, 2012 at 17:40 GMT	2 points
	Ah, okay. That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!

	carbon_rod:	Feb 4th, 2012 at 19:04 GMT	1 point
	Your figures for Shia versus Sunni are not correct; Iraq is 97% Muslim, but only 65% of that is Shia, the rest is Sunni. Saudi Arabia is virtually all Sunni, and so on.

	Flick:	Feb 4th, 2012 at 20:28 GMT	2 points
	@carbon_rod: thanx for the info. I've had a revamp as a lot of the data I'm getting is a little mixed to say the least. Iraq has gone, as regards Saudi Arabia it appears about 14% of the population are Shia Muslim. All other omissions or mistakes, please let me know and I'll delve deeper.

	OdysseusKelly:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 03:14 GMT	2 points
	The stats marked me as getting wrong Tuvalu and Armenia, despite my having got them. I would normally think this was your run-of-the-mill occasional Sporcle glitch, but when only 8% of people get the most obvious answer... Something wrong in the internal structuring of the answers, perhaps?

	Flick:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 06:33 GMT	1 point
	@OdysseusKelly: an errant bonus answer was causing the glitch, all should now be OK.

	raragigi:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 14:53 GMT	-2 points
	Really everyone in the maldives is sunni muslim? And everybody in the vatican is religious and roman catholic at that? There isnt one guy there working as a receptionist or maybe a delegate that is of another religion and in the case the maldives were somekind of dictatorship enforcing that religion, just because its a statereligion doesnt mean the people are of that faith.

	AAJP:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 23:14 GMT	2 points
	@raragigi: Vatican citizenship is unlike that of any other sovereign nation. Citizenship is only awarded to those who are involved with the Vatican's affairs. In other words, members of the clergy, Swiss Guard, cardinals, etc... Receptionists, to use your example, would not be given citizenship; they merely work in the Vatican. In any case, I would assume that the Vatican would only hire Roman Catholic receptionists, regardless. Most likely, they would be residents of Italy, implying that they would almost certainly be Roman Catholic.

	akabuca96:	Feb 16th, 2012 at 03:13 GMT	1 point
	Damn it, no Kyrgyzstan!!

	Mackadal:	Feb 22nd, 2012 at 13:44 GMT	7 points
	Tuvalu, Armenia and Greece really stumped me.

	Sachsen:	Feb 24th, 2012 at 00:37 GMT	1 point
	Timor-Leste was the big surprise for me. I had no idea it was so heavily Catholic. That's my Sporcle learning for the day.

	Holadude19507:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 01:33 GMT	4 points
	I can't believe only 77% of people have common sense. It has Armenia in the name!

	quackslikeaduck:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 16:02 GMT	1 point
	Surprisingly difficult!

	indianwolf1992:	Feb 28th, 2012 at 00:26 GMT	2 points
	@raragigi: About Maldives, you do realize that the numbers in this quiz are rounded off, right? For obvious reasons, nobody can keep constant track of decimal fluctuations. So the Maldives is somewhere between 99.5 and 100% Sunni Muslim. That accounts for your receptionist.

	keereyson:	Mar 7th, 2012 at 03:25 GMT	0 points
	If you ctrl + f "Catholic" on the Honduras wiki page, it gives some really cool insight into the gray areas of who and how many are actually "Catholic." When I was in Honduras in January most of the population put themselves as a group at about 80%, and I bet that phenomenon is prevalent in a lot of those 90%+ countries.

	Acid_Snow:	Apr 5th, 2012 at 23:00 GMT	1 point
	How'd I forget Vatican City?