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Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by tlogan on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:40AM (#27801673)
That is one of the factors. The other factor can be that the least religious countries are the most homogeneous (with some exceptions).
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Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by SamBam on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:49PM (#27802445)
Is this just a pet theory, or have you actually quantified the homogeneity of the most and least religious countries?

While the Scandinavian countries are probably very homogenous, I'm guessing that at least some of the most-religious list (Ethiopia, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Burundi, Mauritania) are fairly homogenous too.

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Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by kleton on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:19PM (#27802740)
None of the ones you named are particularly homogeneous. In Ethiopia and Malawi there is no majority ethnic group. Mauritania's largest ethnic group has a narrow (54%) majority. Yemen is in a civil war between its two largest endogamous sects. The central government of Ethiopia is at war with Tigrayan separatists. The central government of Sri Lanka only recently defeated the Tamil separatists.
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