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. 2008 Jul 29;275(1651):2587–2594. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0688

Table 3.

Zero-order correlations between religion richness and disease richness or pathogen prevalence split by the six world regions.

world region disease richness pathogen prevalence


r p n r p n
North America 0.90 <0.0001 30 0.45 0.01 29
South America 0.91 <0.0001 18 0.79 <0.0001 18
Africa 0.79 <0.0001 56 0.62 <0.0001 55
West Eurasia 0.26 0.04 61 0.15 0.25 61
East Eurasia 0.71 <0.0001 24 0.70 <0.0001 24
Insular Pacific 0.75 <0.0001 25 0.72 <0.0001 24