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Go Figure

Recent statistics on happiness, faith-based prisons, and Canada’s evangelicals

16

791

19%

1

26

16%

Rank of U.S. among the world’s happiest countries, in a survey of 65 nations. Inmates at the Lawtey Correctional Institution, a faith-based prison in Florida. Share of Canada’s population that is evangelical.
Rank of Nigeria. Religions represented at the facility. Canada’s evangelical population a decade ago.

Sources: World Values Survey/New Scientist/BBC, The Washington Post, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada

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