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| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christianity | India: Himachal Pradesh | 7,687 | 0.13% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Jammu and Kashmir | 20,299 | 0.20% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Jharkhand | 1,093,382 | 4.06% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Karnataka | 859,478 | 1.91% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Karnataka | 1,009,164 | 1.91% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Kerala | 5,621,510 | 19.23% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Kerala | 6,000,000 | 20.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 721. | "Syrian Christians in Kerala are currently estimated to number around 5.6 million people. When this figure is added to the roughly 400,000 Christians who belong to non-Syrian Christian churches, the total number of Christians in Kerala rises to 6 million people. This represents about 20% of the state's population and is nearly 30% of the total Christian population of India. It is by far the largest concentration of Chrisians found in the Indian subcontinent. " |
| Christianity | India: Kerala | 7,000,000 | 20.00% | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* Ecumenical News International. "Religion around the world ", title of subsection: "CHRISTIANS IN INDIA FAST FOR REDUCTION IN ALCOHOL USE " in Desert News, Saturday, March 20, 1999 (viewed online 14 May 1999). | "Kerala, with 7 million Christians -- about 20% of the state's 35 million citizens -- has the biggest Christian community of India's 27 states. It also has the highest alcohol consumption in the country -- on average 8.3 liters per head every year, according to anti-alcohol campaigners. " |
| Christianity | India: Kerala | 8,619,000 | - | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* Web site: "Syro-Malabar Catholic Mission "; web page: "Church History " (viewed 23 July 1999). "Note: The figures given above are approximate, worked out from various sources. The exact numbers are not readily available. " | "Total Christians in Kerala - 8,619,000 " |
| Christianity | India: Kerala | 6,057,427 | 19.02% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Lakshadweep | 509 | 0.84% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Madhya Pradesh | 170,381 | 0.28% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Maharashtra | 885,030 | 1.12% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Maharashtra | 1,058,313 | 1.09% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Manipur | 626,669 | 34.11% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Manipur | 737,578 | 34.04% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion; Actually: Manipur (excl. 3 sub-divisions) |
| Christianity | India: Meghalaya | 1,146,092 | 64.58% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Meghalaya | 1,628,986 | 70.25% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Mizoram | 591,342 | 85.73% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Mizoram | 772,809 | 86.97% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Nagaland | - | 66.00% | - | - | 1977 | Wallechinsky, David & Irving Wallace; The People's Almanac: #2; New York: William Morrow & Co.: (1978); pg. 323. | "Two thirds of the population is Christian, and when evangelist Billy Graham visited Nagaland in 1973, his meetings drew 100,000 people. " |
| Christianity | India: Nagaland | - | - | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 709. | "Conversion to Christianity... has resulted in a total abandonment of tribal faiths in such areas as Nagaland, where foreign missionaries have been active since the end of the nineteenth century. " |
| Christianity | India: Nagaland | 1,057,940 | 87.47% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Nagaland | 1,790,349 | 89.97% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Nagaland - Naga | - | 92.97% | - | - | 1981 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 553. | "By 1947, about half of the Naga population had accepted Christianity. This number has been increasing in recent decades, and the 1981 census showed 92.97% of the Naga in Nagaland State as Christian. " |
| Christianity | India: Nicobar Islands | 20,689 | 94.23% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 589. | "The 1981 Census of India recorded a population of 21,956 Nicobarese in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands... Few Nicobarese follow their ancient religion today. The 1981 census records that 94.23% of the Nicobarese identified themselves as Christian. " |
| Christianity | India: Orissa | 425,000 | 1.70% | - | - | 1986 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: Global Prayer Digest 9/4/86); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | "PRAY FOR THE 24 MILLION HINDUS OF ORISSA STATE, INDIA Still today, of the nearly 25 million people in Orissa, only 1.7 percent claim to be Christians. More than 96 percent are Hindus. " |
| Christianity | India: Orissa | 666,220 | 2.10% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Orissa | 897,861 | 2.44% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Pondicherry | 67,688 | 6.95% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Punjab | - | 1.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 643. | "Sikhs account for 61% of the people in India's Punjab State, while 37% are Hindu, and 1% each are Muslim and Christian. " |
| Christianity | India: Punjab | 292,800 | 1.20% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Rajasthan | 47,989 | 0.11% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Rajasthan | 72,660 | 0.13% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Sikkim | 13,413 | 3.30% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Sikkim | 36,115 | 6.68% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Tamil Nadu | 3,179,410 | 5.69% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Tamil Nadu | 3,785,060 | 6.07% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Tripura | 46,472 | 1.69% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Tripura | 102,489 | 3.20% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Uttar Pradesh | 120,000 | - | - | - | 1987 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: Global Prayer Digest 9/26/87); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Uttar Pradesh, a state in Northern India that has nearly half the population of the United States, but only 120,000 Christians! |
| Christianity | India: Uttar Pradesh | 199,575 | 0.14% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: Uttar Pradesh | 212,578 | 0.13% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: Uttaranchal | 27,116 | 0.32% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | India: West Bengal | 383,477 | 0.56% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Mission India " | Table: "Religion 1991 " [based on census] |
| Christianity | India: West Bengal | 515,150 | 0.64% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* website: Census of India 2001; webpage: Data on Religion (Office of the Registrar General, India) (viewed 18 April 2005) | Census 2001 data table: Religion |
| Christianity | Indiana | - | 87.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990... Self-identification of religious loyalty, using representative sample of 113,000 people in phone interviews. Sum of % by state of 21 main groups Kosmin classified as Christian: Assemblies of God, Baptist, Christianity - no denomination supplied, Church of God - all denominations, Church of the Nazarene, Churches of Christ, Congregationalist, Episcopalian, Evangelical/Born Again, Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter Day Saints, Holiness/Holy, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Protestant - no denomination supplied, Catholic, Seventh-day Adventists |
| Christianity | Indiana | - | 76.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Sum of all major groups classified by study as Christian: Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Protestant - no denomination supplied, Pentecostal, Episcopalian/Anglican, Mormon/LDS, Church of Christ, Non-denominational, Congregationalist/UCC, Jehovah's Witnesses, Assemblies of God, Evangelical, Church of God, Seventh-Day Adventist.] |
| Christianity | Indonesia | - | 10.00% | - | - | 1971 | Poole, Frederick King. Indonesia; New York, NY: Franklin Watts, Inc. (1971); pg. 28. | "Of the remaining ten percent, only about half are Christians, in spite of centuries of efforts by Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries from the West. Many of the resident Chinese are Christians, but most are Buddhists. " |
| Christianity | Indonesia | 5,000,000 | 4.17% | - | - | 1977 | Bokenkotter, Thomas. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1977); pg. 341. | "Remarkable success has also attended missionary efforts in Indonesia... A recent figure has 7 million Protestants and 5 million Catholics--nearly 10% of the country's total population. " |
| Christianity | Indonesia | 7,000,000 | 5.80% | - | - | 1977 | Bokenkotter, Thomas. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1977); pg. 341. | "Remarkable success has also attended missionary efforts in Indonesia... A recent figure has 7 million Protestants and 5 million Catholics--nearly 10% of the country's total population. " |
| Christianity | Indonesia | 12,000,000 | 10.00% | - | - | 1977 | Bokenkotter, Thomas. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1977); pg. 341. | "Remarkable success has also attended missionary efforts in Indonesia... A recent figure has 7 million Protestants and 5 million Catholics--nearly 10% of the country's total population. " |
| Christianity | Indonesia | - | 10.00% | - | - | 1978 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD, by P. J. Johnstone STL Publications, P. O. Box 48, Bromley, Kent, England. Published in 1978); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Christianity 10% - Roman Catholics 2.3%; Protestants 7%; Other groups: "KINGMI " (CMA) 250,000 community... Evangelicals 4%. |
| Christianity | Indonesia | 12,000,000 | 10.00% | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 181. | "Indonesia, fifth largest nation in the world (over 120 million and growing rapidly), is officially over 80 percent Muslim, but there is continued spectacular growth of the 10 percent Christian minority. " |
| Christianity | Indonesia | - | 5.00% | - | - | 1985 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: June, 1985 issue of INTERNATIONAL INTERCESSORS); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | The population is 90% Muslim; some 5% are Christian. The island of Bali retains its Buddhist-Hindu heritage. |
| Christianity | Indonesia | - | 25.00% | - | - | 1991 | Russell, Chandler. Racing Toward 2001; Zondervan Publishing House: Grand Rapids, MI (1992). [Orig. source: J. Lee Grady, "New Missions Strategies for a Rapidly Changing World, " National & International Religion Report 5, no. 3, 28 Jan. 1991]; pg. 224. | "Indonesia may be 25% Christian by now. (But government leaders in the officially Islamic country won't print the statistics.) " |
| Christianity | Indonesia | 19,356,050 | 10.00% | - | - | 1993 | Hintz, Martin. Indonesia (series: Enchantment of the World). Chicago: Childrens Press (1993); pg. 29. | "Christianity was introducted to the islands in the sixteenth century by Portuguese and Spanish traders who converted quite a few people of Maluku to the Roman Catholic faith. Later the Dutch colonists, most of whom were Protestants, built churches that some of the Indonesians joined. Today about one of every ten or eleven Indonesians is Christian. Most of them are concentrated in Maluku, North Sulawesi, and North Sumatra. " |
| Christianity | Indonesia | 50,000,000 | 25.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* "News in Brief " in Hinduism Today International (July 1996 -- Vol. 18, No. 7); original source: National & International Religion Report. | nearly a quarter of Indonesia's 200-million people are now Christians, according to an Assembly of God mission executive. That's a 10% growth in five-years. |
| Christianity | Indonesia | 20,000,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | "Riots Traumatize Chinese Christians " in Christianity Today (July 13, 1998); pg. 18. | "...Indonesia's 20 million Christians... " |
| Christianity | Indonesia | 17,550,000 | 9.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 297. | "Location: Indonesia; Population: 195 million; Religion: Islam (87%); Protestantism (6%); Catholicism (3%); Hinduism (3%); Buddhism (1%) " |
| Christianity | Indonesia - Ambonese | 408,000 | 51.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 31, 33. | "Ambonese: Location: Indonesia; Population: 800,000; Religion: Christianity; Islam "; "The Ambonese divide almost evenly into Christians (51%) and Muslims (49%)... Indigenous beliefs focusing on ancestral spirits remain strong, though they coexist more harmoniously with Islam than with Protestantism... " |
| Christianity | Indonesia - Batak | 1,000,000 | - | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 181. | "The Batak churches in northern Sumatra total over a million members; some have undergone deep spiritual revival and doubled their membership in two or three years. " |
| Christianity | Indonesia - Irian Barat | - | 65.00% | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 181. | "Contemporary people's movements among small, tough, remote tribes have brought results such as the conversion of more than 65 percent of the population of the Irian Barat area. " |
| Christianity | Indonesia - Karo | 155,000 | 31.00% | - | - | 1990 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 101-102. | "Assuming the percentages given in the 1930 colonial census are still accurate, one can break the total down as follows: 1.65 million Toba, living around Lake Toba, on Samosir Island, & in the highlands to the south; 500,000 Karo to the northwest of the lake "; "Some 12% of Karo profess Islam, while 31% are Christian (converts were few until the 1965 suppression of communism compelled every Indonesian to declare adherence to a universal religion). " |
| Christianity | Indonesia - Toraja | 250,800 | 76.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 661-662. | "Sa'dan Toraja: Location: Indonesia; Population: 330,000 "; "Since Indonesian independence, Christianity has grown rapidly among the Toraja, claiming 64% as Protestants ans 12% as Catholics. " |
