Table 1.

Zero-order correlations between religion richness, disease richness, pathogen prevalence, and control variables for the countries of the world.

	correlation with the natural log of religion richness
	r	p	n
disease richness	0.75	<0.0001	214
pathogen prevalence	0.62	<0.0001	211
absolute latitude	−0.37	<0.0001	218
population size (ln)	0.59	<0.0001	214
land area (ln)	0.58	<0.0001	214
democracy index	−0.14	0.08	167
GDP per capita (ln)	−0.33	<0.0001	213
Gini	0.38	<0.0001	122