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 | ||||
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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 |