Five (Kind of Surprising) Things to Know About Quakers

#2. There are more Quakers in Kenya than in any other country.

In 2012,  all of the Quakers in the world numbered 377,055. About half of all the Quakers in the world lived in Africa (52% in 2012), and most of those lived in Kenya (in 2008, 133,000). In the United States, there were 76,360 Quakers in 2012 (down from over 86,000 in 2007). Quakers are distributed across the globe as follows:
Africa = 52%
North America = 20%
Caribbean and Latin America = 15%
Europe and Middle East = 7%
Asia-West Pacific = 6%.

So most Quakers are not white, despite the current population of most Quaker meetings and churches in the US.