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Africa |
Total Africa figures are given below. For details by country, please click on the appropriate link :
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central Adrican Rebublic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote D'Ivorie, Dijibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea=Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
1995 |
2005 |
Change |
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Population |
744m |
963m |
219m |
Christian Population |
243m |
296m |
53m |
% of Popn who are Christian |
33% |
31% |
-2% |
Denominational Membership |
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Anglican/Episcopal |
5.1m |
6.4m |
1.3m |
Baptist |
4.0m |
4.9m |
0.9m |
Catholic |
49.1m |
60.1m |
11.0m |
Indigenous |
12.4m |
15.0m |
2.6m |
Lutheran |
2.5m |
3.0m |
0.5m |
Methodist |
2.8m |
3.1m |
0.3m |
Orthodox |
16.5m |
31.1m |
14.6m |
Pentecostal |
8.9m |
11.8m |
2.9m |
Presbyterian |
5.2m |
5.7m |
0.5m |
Other Trinitarian Churches |
12.5m |
15.8m |
3.3m |
Number of Churches |
529,444 |
641,059 |
111,615 |
Quality of Life Indicators |
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% of Popn under 15 |
44% | ||
% of Popn over 65 |
3% | ||
GNP per Capita US$ |
650 |
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