Index| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pentecostal | Sweden | 88,420 | 1.00% | - | - | 1999 | Zickgraf, Ralph. Sweden (series: Major World Nations). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers (1999); pg. 9. | "Population: 8,842,000... Official religion: Church of Sweden (Lutheran), 94%... Other Religions: Roman Catholic, 1.5%; Pentecostal, 1.0%; other, 3.5%. " |
| Pentecostal | Tennessee | - | 2.60% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | Tennessee | - | 2.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic " |
| Pentecostal | Texas | - | 2.90% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | Texas | - | 3.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic " |
| Pentecostal | Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth | 167,700 | 4.30% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 112. | Table 3-6: "Religious Profiles of Selected Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, 1990. (Pentecostal here includes Assemblies of God) Total area pop: 3.9 million. |
| Pentecostal | Texas: Houston | 155,400 | 4.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 112. | Table 3-6: "Religious Profiles of Selected Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, 1990. (Pentecostal here includes Assemblies of God) Total area pop: 3.7 million. |
| Pentecostal | Thailand | 6,000 | - | - | - | 1979 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD 1979); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | "Baptists (4 groups) 8,000; Pentecostals 6,000; Various Evangelical Churches associated with OMF 2,000+; CMA 1,700; WEC 700. " |
| Pentecostal | Trinidad and Tobago | 30,000 | - | - | - | 1979 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD 1979); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Largest groups: Anglicans 120,000 adherents, Methodists 50,000, Nazarenes 8,000, Open Standard Churches 3,000, Pentecostal Assemblies 30,000. |
| Pentecostal | United Kingdom | 70,000 | - | - | - | 1976 | Quebedeaux, Richard. The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development, and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1976); pg. 46-47. | "thanks to Prudencio Damboriena and Walter Hollenweger's work, we can offer a very approximate estimate of total [Classical] Pentecostal adherents in nations where the movement has had a measurable impact... " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 350,000 | - | 5,600 units |
- | 1945 | Ferm, Vergilius (ed). An Encyclopedia of Religion; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1976; 1st ed. pub. 1945 by Philosophical Library); pg. 573. | "The pentecostal sects in the United States have approximately 5,650 local congregations and 350,000 members. " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 1,000,000 | - | - | - | 1949 | Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People; Yale University Press: New Haven & London (1973); pg. 821. | "In 1949, when the Pentecostal Fellowship of North America held its second convention, it could claim 8 denominations with total membership of one million. Two decades later Pentecostalists in U.S. claimed over 1.5 million. " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 1,500,000 | - | - | - | 1969 | Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People; Yale University Press: New Haven & London (1973); pg. 821. | "In 1949, when the Pentecostal Fellowship of North America held its second convention, it could claim 8 denominations with total membership of one million. Two decades later Pentecostalists in U.S. claimed over 1.5 million. " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 500,000 | - | - | - | 1970 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 16). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970); pg. 2162. | "Conservative assessments suggest that in the United States there are many more than a half million Pentecostalists... " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 1,400,000 | - | - | - | 1976 | Quebedeaux, Richard. The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development, and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1976); pg. 46-47. | "thanks to Prudencio Damboriena and Walter Hollenweger's work, we can offer a very approximate estimate of total [Classical] Pentecostal adherents in nations where the movement has had a measurable impact... " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 3,300,000 | - | - | - | 1979 | Carmody, Denise Lardner & John Tully Carmody. Western Ways to the Center: An Introduction to Western Religions; Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co. (1983); pg. 122. | Table: "Membership Data on Major American Religious Groups [1979] " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 2,376,350 | - | - | - | 1982 | Popenoe, David. Sociology (5th Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1983). [Orig. source: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1982. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, 1982, pp. 351-352.]; pg. 446. | Table: "Religious Membership in the United States " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 7,000,000 | - | - | - | 1986 | Pastva, Loretta. Great Religions of the World; Winona, Minnesota: Saint Mary's Press, Christian Brothers Publications (1995) [9th printing. 1st printing in 1986]; pg. 218. | "Estimating the number of Pentecostals is difficult... Some Pentecostals retain membership in, for example, Methodist or Baptist Churches. One estimate is 28 million Pentecostals worldwide, with 7 million belonging to any one of 16 bodies in the U.S. " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 3,116,000 | 1.80% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 15-17. | Table 1-2: Self-Described Adherence of U.S. Adult Population 1990. Phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by Graduate School of City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | USA | - | 1.80% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | USA | - | 20.00% | - | - | 1992 | Bloom, Harold. The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. New York: Simon & Schuster (1992); pg. 176. | "Though one in five Americans asserts she or he is a Pentecostal, only one in twenty-five dares to affirm that she or he has spoken in tongues. " |
| Pentecostal | USA | - | 1.00% | - | - | 1992 | *LINK* web site: Princeton Religion Research Center: "Gallup Religion Data " (Dec 1998) | Table: "What specific denomination is that? (asked of Protestants) "; [this figure is percentage of U.S. total population] |
| Pentecostal | USA | - | 2.00% | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* web site: Princeton Religion Research Center: "Gallup Religion Data " (Dec 1998) | Table: "What specific denomination is that? (asked of Protestants) "; [this figure is percentage of U.S. total population] |
| Pentecostal | USA | - | 3.00% | - | - | 1994 | *LINK* web site: Princeton Religion Research Center: "Gallup Religion Data " (Dec 1998) | Table: "What specific denomination is that? (asked of Protestants) "; [this figure is percentage of U.S. total population] |
| Pentecostal | USA | 10,300,000 | - | - | - | 1995 | 1995 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches | - |
| Pentecostal | USA | - | 3.00% | - | - | 1995 | *LINK* web site: Princeton Religion Research Center: "Gallup Religion Data " (Dec 1998) | Table: "What specific denomination is that? (asked of Protestants) "; [this figure is percentage of U.S. total population] |
| Pentecostal | USA | - | 3.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: Princeton Religion Research Center: "Gallup Religion Data " (Dec 1998) | Table: "What specific denomination is that? (asked of Protestants) "; [this figure is percentage of U.S. total population] |
| Pentecostal | USA | 10,000,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | Conkin, Paul K. American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity, The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC (1997); pg. 276. | "Pentecostal denominations... number close to 200... those denominations that report their membership to the National Council of Churches (approximately thirty, and including all the largest) have a reported membership of approximately 10 million. " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 10,500,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | Conkin, Paul K. American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity, The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC (1997); pg. 321. | "... of these six American originals. In very approximate terms, their members number about 21 million in the United States, with Pentecostals making up almost half of that total. " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 12,000,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | McCourt, Frank. "God in America " in Life (Dec. 1998); pg. 69. | "Pentecostals--130 million strong, nearly 12 million of them in the U.S. " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 10,606,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (viewed circa Nov. 1998); "last updated October 1998 " | Table: "Christian Organizations "; "Membership numbers, as supplied by various denominations " |
| Pentecostal | USA | 10,606,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (viewed circa Nov. 1998); "last updated October 1998 " | Table: "Largest Religious Groups: The 16 US faith groups and ethical systems with memberships over 1 million are: "; listed in table as "Pentecostal Churches " |
| Pentecostal | Utah | - | 0.40% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | Utah | - | 0.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic "; Actual % between 0 and 0.5%, so sell was left blank. |
| Pentecostal | Vermont | - | 0.40% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | Vermont | - | 0.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic "; Actual % between 0 and 0.5%, so sell was left blank. |
| Pentecostal | Virginia | - | 2.00% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | Virginia | - | 2.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic " |
| Pentecostal | Washington | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1914 | Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. 1. Tarrytown, NY: Triumph Books (1991); Chapter: Pentecostal Family; section: White Trinitarian Pentecostals; pg. 245. | "The Bethel Temple was formed in 1914 as the first Pentecostal congregation in the state of Washington. " |
| Pentecostal | Washington | - | 1.50% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | Washington | - | 2.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic " |
| Pentecostal | Washington, D.C. | - | 0.00% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. [Geographic region in this table is listed as "District of Columbia ", not "Washington, D.C. "] |
| Pentecostal | Washington, D.C. | - | 8.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic " |
| Pentecostal | West Virginia | - | 3.20% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | West Virginia | - | 3.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic " |
| Pentecostal | Wisconsin | - | 1.00% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | Wisconsin | - | 1.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic " |
| Pentecostal | world | - | - | - | - | 1907 | *LINK* Hexham, Irving. Concise Dictionary of Religion. Carol Stream, USA: InterVarsity Press (1994). (v. online 6 Oct. 1999) | "PENTECOSTAL: a modern CHRISTIAN REVITALIZATION MOVEMENT with roots in the nineteenth century HOLINESS MOVEMENT. Its inception is usually traced to the Azusa Street REVIVAL in 1907... " |
| Pentecostal | world | - | - | - | - | 1945 | 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. 162. | "The Pentecostal churches began in 1901 as an outgrowth of the emphasis on Christian Perfection in the Methodist Churches... Those who experienced this attestation to their baptism were excommunicated from their churches and in time established flourishing Pentecostal denominations around the world. After World War II the rapid growth of these bodies attracted the attention of the Christian world. Leading Pentecostal figures such as evangelist Oral Roberts, ecumenist David duPlessis... created a better reception for Pentecostalism in the traditional churches. " |
| Pentecostal | world | 35,000,000 | - | - | 120 countries |
1977 | 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. 564. | "Pentecostal churches... By 1970 the appearance of the Charismatic Movement in the traditional churches led to the older Pentecostal churches being known as 'classical Pentecostals.' The fastest growing Christian movement after World War II, the Pentecostal churches claimed some 35,000,000 adherents in over 120 nations in 1977... " |
| Pentecostal | world | 21,900,000 | - | - | - | 1980 | Walls, Andrew. "Christianity " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984]; pg. 108. | "Figure 2.7: Northern (non-Latin Western) Christianity [i.e. Protestantism], 1980: world figures (after Barrett, 1982) " |
| Pentecostal | world | 100,000,000 | - | - | - | 1982 | *LINK* web site: New Religious Movements (University of Virginia) (1998) [Orig. source: World Christian Encyclopedia (edited by David B. Barrett) (New York, 1982)] | the world-wide total of Pentecostals is estimated at claiming close to one hundred million adherents. |
| Pentecostal | world | 58,999,864 | - | - | - | 1985 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything 1997, DK Publishing: New York (1996); pg. 84. | Table: "Top 10 Christian Affiliations in the World " (listing of religious "affiliations ", or denominational families, with largest numbers of adherents, based on mid-1980s. Ranked #4 |
| Pentecostal | world | 28,000,000 | - | - | - | 1986 | Pastva, Loretta. Great Religions of the World; Winona, Minnesota: Saint Mary's Press, Christian Brothers Publications (1995) [9th printing. 1st printing in 1986]; pg. 218. | "Estimating the number of Pentecostals is difficult... Some Pentecostals retain membership in, for example, Methodist or Baptist Churches. One estimate is 28 million Pentecostals worldwide, with 7 million belonging to any one of 16 bodies in the U.S. " |
| Pentecostal | world | 30,000,000 | - | - | - | 1987 | Bishop, Peter & Michael Darton (editors). The Encyclopedia of World Faiths: An Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Faiths. New York: Facts on File Publications (1987); pg. 133. | "Of the total of about 30 million adherents of Pentecostal Churches, the largest number in any one country is in Brazil... In Chile, some 10% of the total population are Pentecostals... And there are large numbers of adherents also in Central America and Caribbean countries, Indonesia, Korea, the Soviet Union, and many countries of Africa. In Western Europe -- apart from in Norway, Sweden and Italy -- Pentecostals are numerically weak. " |
| Pentecostal | world | 100,000,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Naisbitt, John & Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1990); pg. 278. | "The expressive, emotional Pentecostals and charismatics who profess some fundamentalist beliefs are known for openness to the Holy Spirit, faith healing, and speaking in tongues. Worldwide there are some 100 million Pentecostals... " |
| Pentecostal | world | 410,000,000 | - | - | - | 1994 | Cox, Harvey. Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century; New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (1994); pg. xv. | "I had read some of the same amazing statistics, including the estimate that pentecostal churches are growing at the rate of 20 million new members a year and that their worldwide membership had now reached some 410 million. " |
| Pentecostal | world | 105,756,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything 1999. New York: DK Publishing (1998); pg. 76. | Table: "Top 10 Christian Denominations in the World "; Rank: #3 |
| Pentecostal | world | 130,000,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | McCourt, Frank. "God in America " in Life (Dec. 1998); pg. 69. | "Pentecostals--130 million strong, nearly 12 million of them in the U.S. " |
| Pentecostal | world | 480,000,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web page: "Our Progress: A Short History of the International Pentecostal Church of Christ " (viewed 27 Feb. 1999); "Last Updated December 15, 1997 by Clyde M. Hughes, General Overseer " | Pentecostals now number approximately 480 million across the world and comprise the second largest contingent of persons calling themselves Christians. |
| Pentecostal | world | 450,000,000 | 8.25% | - | - | 1999 | Gallagher, Winifred. Working on God. New York: Random House (1999); pg. 31. | "At the millennium, one of three people on the planet and nine out of ten Americans identify themselves as Christians... Particularly popular in the Latin American, Asian, and American megacities, Pentecostalism claims one in four Christians, or 450 million people. " |
| Pentecostal | world | - | - | - | - | 1999 | Gallagher, Winifred. Working on God. New York: Random House (1999); pg. 31. | "The world's fastest-growing religious movement is a supremely experiential form of evangelical--'born-again,' fervent, Gospel-based--Christianity known as Pentecostalism... Although few readers of this book would be inclined to embrace it, in important aspects, Pentecostalism is a bellwether of millennial religion. " |
| Pentecostal | Wyoming | - | 1.20% | - | - | 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, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Pentecostal | Wyoming | - | 0.00% | - | - | 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?'; Listed in table: "Pentecostal/Charismatic "; Actual % between 0 and 0.5%, so sell was left blank. |
| Pentecostal | Yukon | 600 | 2.16% | - | - | 1991 | Gall, Timothy L. & Susan Bevan Gall (editors). Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces. Detroit: U.X.L. (1997), [Source: Canadian Census]; pg. 186. | "In 1991, 43.1% of the population--or about 12,000 people--was Protestant, including... 1,000 Baptists, 650 Lutherans, 600 Pentecostals, and 350 Presbyterians. " |
