ssioning in 2001
Zimbabwe:
total: 2,759 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 2,759 km 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified; 42 km
double track) (1995 est.)
Taiwan:
total: 4,600 km (519 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 4,600 km 1.067-m
note: only 1,108 km of route length (including the electrified
part) is used in common carrier service by the Taiwan Railway
Administration; the remaining 3,492 km is dedicated to industrial
use (1999)
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@Religions
Afghanistan:
Sunni Muslim 84%, Shi'a Muslim 15%, other 1%
Albania:
Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%
note: all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious
observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania began allowing
private religious practice
Algeria:
Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%
American Samoa:
Christian Congregationalist 50%, Roman Catholic 20%,
Protestant and other 30%
Andorra:
Roman Catholic (predominant)
Angola:
indigenous beliefs 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15%
(1998 est.)
Anguilla:
Anglican 40%, Methodist 33%, Seventh-Day Adventist 7%,
Baptist 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, other 12%
Antigua and Barbuda:
Anglican (predominant), other Protestant, some
Roman Catholic
Argentina:
nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing),
Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%
Armenia:
Armenian Orthodox 94%
Aruba:
Roman Catholic 82%, Protestant 8%, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian,
Jewish
Australia:
Anglican 26.1%, Roman Catholic 26%, other Christian
24.3%, non-Christian 11%
Austria:
Roman Catholic 78%, Protestant 5%, Muslim and other 17%
Azerbaijan:
Muslim 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian Orthodox
2.3%, other 1.8% (1995 est.)
note: religious affiliation is still nominal in Azerbaijan;
percentages for actual practicing adherents are much lower
Bahamas, The:
Baptist 32%, Anglican 20%, Roman Catholic 19%,
Methodist 6%, Church of God 6%, other Protestant 12%, none or
unknown 3%, other 2%
Bahrain:
Shi'a Muslim 70%, Sunni Muslim 30%
Bangladesh:
Muslim 83%, Hindu 16%, other 1% (1998)
Barbados:
Protestant 67% (Anglican 40%, Pentecostal 8%, Methodist
7%, other 12%), Roman Catholic 4%, none 17%, other 12%
Belarus:
Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic,
Protestant, Jewish, and Musl
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