Distribution of Quakers in the World
Worldwide: most recent membership count = 358,923
- For a list of yearly meetings (regional groupings of Friends) around the world, see the List of Meetings posted by Friends World Committee for Consultation (World Office).
- Distribution worldwide of Friends:
Africa = 43%
North America = 30%
Caribbean and Latin America = 17%
Europe and Middle East = 6%
Asia-West Pacific = 4%.(A colorful map of Quaker distributions around the world is sent free to those who sign up for the electronic newsletter of Friends World Committee for Consultation - Section of the Americas at www.fwccamericas.org.)
- Distribution of Friends in the Western Hemisphere (by country): a map of North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean, posted by Friends World Committee for Consultation - Section of the Americas.
United States: 2005 membership count = 87,022
- Quaker branches: a map of the United States showing numbers of monthly meetings in each state, categorized by branches of Quakerism, posted by Western Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. (See branches for an explanation of the types of American Quakerism.)
- Map of unprogrammed yearly meetings in the U.S. (a work of Sally Rickerman and Gail Pietrzyk).
- American Religious Identification Survey: See page 12 for "Self-Described Religious Identification [not membership] of U.S. Adult Population, 1990-2001"
- U.S. Map of Quakers as a percentage of the population, by county: data from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. Map created and posted by Jon T. Kilpinen, Chair, Department of Geography & Meteorology, Valparaiso University.
- U.S. Religious Landscape Survey issued by The Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life in 2008.