Facts and figures: the ninth edition of The State of the
World Atlas, published last month in paperback (New
Internationalist, £14.99), suggests that, although the vast
majority of the world's population professes a religious faith,
more than 20 per cent of people in the former Soviet Union, China,
North Korea, and Cuba profess none.
The atlas contains more than 100 thematic maps, and includes
statistics on wealth, poverty, and inequality. It states that
Christianity, if regarded as one religion, has more than half as
many more adherents than Islam, and more than twice as many as
Hinduism.
