Index| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protestant | Vietnam | - | 1.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Protestant | Virgin Islands (British) | 11,496 | 86.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Protestant 86% (Methodist 45%, Anglican 21%, Church of God 7%, Seventh-Day Adventist 5%, Baptist 4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 2%, other 2%), Roman Catholic 6%, none 2%, other 6% (1981); Total population: 13,368 (1997 est.). |
| Protestant | Virgin Islands (U.S.) | - | 64.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994); pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% "; Protestant "includes all non-Roman Catholic denominations " |
| Protestant | Virgin Islands (U.S.) | 45,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783. | Table: "Religion ": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: "Religious affiliation " & "1996 pop. " [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop. |
| Protestant | Virgin Islands (U.S.) | - | 58.50% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Protestant | Virginia | - | 55.00% | - | - | 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 Protestant: 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.] |
| Protestant | Washington | - | 32.00% | - | - | 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 Protestant: 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.] |
| Protestant | Washington, D.C. | - | 39.00% | - | - | 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 Protestant: 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.] |
| Protestant | West Virginia | - | 60.00% | - | - | 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 Protestant: 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.] |
| Protestant | Wisconsin | - | 45.00% | - | - | 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 Protestant: 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.] |
| Protestant | world | 1 | - | - | - | 1517 C.E. | Rosten, Leo (ed.). Religions in America; New York: Simon & Schuster (1963), 8th ed. [1st pub. in 1952. 8th ed. completely revised]; pg. 113. | "On October 31, 1517, there was only one Protestant--Martin Luther. A few years later, there were millions. The... Reformation split the church of the 16th century into a number of segments, of which the Lutheran Church is one. " |
| Protestant | world | 225,000,000 | - | - | - | 1956 | Beck, Vector E. Why I Am a Lutheran. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons (1956); pg. 45. | "The Lutherans today number about one-third of the Protestants of the world, about seventy-five million. " |
| Protestant | world | 200,000,000 | - | - | - | 1957 | Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Time Incorporated (1957); pg. 231. | "The Protestant Reformation, which resulted, now has more than 200 million followers--one fourth of the world's Christians. " |
| Protestant | world | 200,000,000 | 8.25% | - | - | 1958 | Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Western Publishing Co. (1972). [11th printing; original edition: 1958]; pg. 152. | "The Protestant Reformation, which resulted, now has more than 200 million followers--one-fourths of the world's Christians [which make up 1/3 of world's population -- pg. 121] " |
| Protestant | world | 140,000,000 | - | - | - | 1963 | Rosten, Leo (ed.). Religions in America; New York: Simon & Schuster (1963), 8th ed. [1st pub. in 1952. 8th ed. completely revised]; pg. 119-120. | "Lutherans constitute almost half of the Protestants of the world. It is impossible to give the total accurately... Perhaps 70 million would be a resonable guess at the present world total. " |
| Protestant | world | - | - | - | - | 1970 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 2). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970); pg. 158. | "Protestant Christianity (apart from the Quakers and similar dissident sects) has tended to separate God from man, and so in the long run it has made God irrelevant to man. This is the reason why Protestant Christianity is everywhere in retreat and why modern man is groping towards a form of religion which will reunite God with man, eternity with time. " |
| Protestant | world | 262,200,000 | - | - | - | 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. 117. | "Figure 2.9: Christianity, 1980: world figures (after Barrett, 1982) " |
| Protestant | world | 320,000,000 | - | - | - | 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. 173. | "The three fundamental Christian divisions are Roman Catholic, with over 550 million members, Orthodox, with about 85 million, and Protestant with 320 million. " |
| Protestant | world | - | - | - | - | 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. 582. | "Protestantism. That form of Western Christianity which does not accept the authority of the pope of Roman Catholicism. It accents biblical authority... The name 'Protestant' comes from a statement made by a party of Christians at the Diet of Speyer in Germany (1529). The roots of Protestantism, however, lie well beyond that date in the stirrings of reform that occurred in western Europe almost a century earlier. " |
| Protestant | world | 341,496,736 | - | - | - | 1981 | Popenoe, David. Sociology (5th Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1983). [Source: 1981 Britannica Book of the Year]; pg. 433. | Table: Membership in the Major Religions of the World " |
| Protestant | world | 343,546,752 | 7.64% | - | - | 1982 | Robertson, Ian. Sociology (2nd ed.); New York, NY: Worth Publishers (1981 2nd edition; updated since 1977 1st ed.). [Orig. source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year, 1982]; pg. 405. | Table: "Estimated membership of the principal religions of the world " |
| Protestant | world | 300,000,000 | - | - | - | 1983 | Berger, Gilda. Religion: A Reference First Book. New York: Franklin Watts (1983); pg. 56. | "The Lutheran Church is the largest of the Protestant churches. There are over 100 million Lutherans. About one out of every three Protestants worldwide is a Lutheran. " |
| Protestant | world | 340,000,000 | - | - | - | 1983 | Berger, Gilda. Religion: A Reference First Book. New York: Franklin Watts (1983); pg. 72. | "About 340 million belong to Protestant churches worldwide. Most live in Europe and North America. " |
| Protestant | world | 370,000,000 | - | - | - | 1984 | Lindsey, Hal. Planet Earth - 2000 A.D.. Palos Verdes, California: Western Front, Ltd. (1994); pg. 176-177. | "Ten years ago, a survey of the largest religions in the world showed Roman Catholicism first with 622 million followers, Islam second with 555 million, Hinduism third with 462 million and Protestantism fourth with 370 million. " |
| Protestant | world | 325,000,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Carlisle, Richard (editor), The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mankind vol. 19, Marshall Cavendish: Freeport, NY (1990); pg. 2494. | - |
| Protestant | world | 350,000,000 | - | - | - | 1991 | Hargrove, Jim. Germany (series: Enchantment of the World). Chicago: Childrens Press (1991); pg. 8. | "In 1517... Martin Luther began the Reformation by nailing a list of spiritual thoughts to the church door in the town of Wittenberg. The act led to the birth of the Protestant Christian church. Today, there are more than 350 million... members of Protestant churches throughout the world. " |
| Protestant | world | 422,428,992 | - | - | - | 1993 | Faux, Marian (ed.). The New York Public Library Sudent's Desk Reference. New York: Prentice Hall (1993); pg. 270. | Table: "The World's Major Religions: How Big Are They? "; "Estimated number of followers of each religion. " Three Christian groups listed in table: 'Roman Catholic', 'Protestant', 'Orthodox Eastern'. |
| Protestant | world | - | - | - | - | 1993 | Faux, Marian (ed.). The New York Public Library Sudent's Desk Reference. New York: Prentice Hall (1993); pg. 272. | "Protestantism is strong in the Unted States, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries. " |
| Protestant | world | 543,000,000 | 10.30% | - | - | 1993 | Johnstone. Operation World. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan (1993); pg. 23. | "Protestant 10.3%. 543 million. Protestant are in a majority in 43 states and territories, over 10% in a further 70, over 1% in another 69. Growth 3.3%. In the 1980s the growth of Protestantism in Latin America, Africa and Asia exceeded that of the decline in the West, giving a significant growth increase. Affiliated 9.2%. 488 million... Evangelical growth 5.4% and Pentecostal growth 8.1% are significantly higher and are the fastest-growing major religious groupings in the world. " |
| Protestant | world | 300,000,000 | - | - | 212 countries |
1993 | Rausch, David A. & Carl Hermann Voss. World Religions: Our Quest for Meaning; Trinity Press International: Valley Forge, PA (1993); pg. 173. | "Today nearly 300 million Protestants in 8,200 denominations in 212 countries... " |
| Protestant | world | 382,374,016 | - | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* web site: "Wholesome Words: Worldwide Missions " by Stephen Ross, "First Edition, 1998 "; [original sources: The World Factbook 1997 (CIA, 1998)] | Table: "Major religions of the world (1993 est.) " |
| Protestant | world | 395,867,008 | 6.93% | - | - | 1995 | The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ), [Source: 1996 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year]; pg. 646. | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1995 " |
| Protestant | world | 404,020,000 | 6.96% | - | - | 1996 | The World Almanac & Book of Facts 1998 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ), [Source: 1997 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year]; pg. 654. | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1996 " |
| Protestant | world | 170,422,000 | 3.10% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "The Geography of Religion Website " (assembled by the students of Morehead State University, under Prof. Timothy C. Pitts); web page: "The Geography of Protestantism " (viewed 2 March 1999); [Orig. source: Markham, Ian S., (Editor), A World Religions Reader. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers (1996), pp. 356-357.] | table with 3 columns: "Area "; "Adherents "; "Population Percentage " |
| Protestant | world | 347,000,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* "From: p.west@mailbox.uq.edu.au (Peter B. West); Newsgroups: aus.religion, aus.religion.christian, alt.christnet.theology; Subject: Re: Anglicans, Catholics, Buddhists?; Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 " [Orig. source: "From 'The Public Square' by Richard John Neuhaus (1997); First Things 70 (Feb. 1997): 58-74. http://www.firstthings.com/ "] | "Among Christians, there are 56 million Anglicans, 4 million Catholics (non-Roman), 20 million 'marginal Protestants' (non-Catholic but also not identified with any Protestant tradition), 167 million nonwhite indigenous Christians (mainly new African groups combining Christianity and tribal religions), 187 million Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, et al.), 347 million Protestants, and somewhat over a billion Roman Catholics. " |
| Protestant | world | 381,000,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* web site: "Monday Morning Reality Check " (Protestant); web page: "Status of Global Mission 1997 " by Justin D. Long, 1997 (viewed 5 March 1999) | "Of the churches, 54 million are Anglicans, 6 million are Catholics (non-Roman), 34 million are marginal Protestants, 197 million belong to non-white indigenous churches, 214 million are Orthodox, 381 million are Protestants and 992 million are Roman Catholics. " |
| Protestant | world | 316,444,992 | 5.34% | - | - | 1998 | World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999). [Source: 1999 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year]; pg. 695. | Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1998 " |
| Protestant | Wyoming | - | 47.00% | - | - | 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 Protestant: 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.] |
| Protestant | Yemen | - | 0.00% | - | - | 1972 | Marty, Martin E. Protestantism (History of Religion Series). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1972); pg. 13. | "In large but lightly populated Saudi Arabia fewer than 1,000 Protestants could be found, and a Protestant population would be virtually nonexistent in Yemen. " |
| Protestant | Yugoslavia | 89,369 | 1.00% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Yugoslavia.com "; web page: "Population: Religion " (viewed 30 Jan. 1999). [Orig. source: Source: Federal Buerau of Statistics, 1991., Veroispovest, volum 2 - 1993.] | table "Religion "; based on self-identification of religious preference.; listed in table as "Protestant " |
| Protestant | Yugoslavia | - | 46.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994); pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% "; Protestant "includes all non-Roman Catholic denominations " |
| Protestant | Yugoslavia | 110,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783. | Table: "Religion ": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: "Religious affiliation " & "1996 pop. " [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop. |
| Protestant | Yugoslavia - former | 235,000 | 1.00% | - | - | 1990 | *LINK* Library of Congress Country Studies | Est. 23.5 million [total pop.] (1990). In 1990 Roman Catholic (30 percent), Serbian and Macedonian Orthodox (50 percent), Muslim (9 percent), Protestant (1 percent) and other (10 percent). Estimates of religious faiths vary widely. |
| Protestant | Yukon | 12,000 | 43.10% | - | - | 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... " |
| Protestant | Yukon | 11,900 | 42.96% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Statistics Canada "; web page: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 93-319-XPB. | table: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " |
| Protestant | Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) | - | 14.00% | - | - | 1959 | Bokenkotter, Thomas. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1977); pg. 343. | "...achievement in the former Belgian Congo, now Zaire... By 1959 Catholics numbered about 36% of the population, and with Protestants added constituted a Christian portion that represented about half of the population. Native Congolese priests totaled about 400. " |
| Protestant | Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) | - | 46.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994); pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% "; Protestant "includes all non-Roman Catholic denominations " |
| Protestant | Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) | 11,956,000 | 28.00% | - | - | 1994 | *LINK* Library of Congress Country Studies | Est. 42.7 million [total pop.] (1994). Majority Christian: 46 to 48 % Roman Catholic, 24 to 28 % Protestant, up to 16.5 % in Kimbanguist Church. About 1 % of population Muslim. Most other people practice traditional African religions. |
| Protestant | Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) | 13,130,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783. | Table: "Religion ": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: "Religious affiliation " & "1996 pop. " [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop. |
| Protestant | Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) | 9,488,072 | 20.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, other syncretic sects and traditional beliefs 10%; Total population: 47,440,362. |
| Protestant | Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) | 14,985,000 | 33.30% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 471-472. | "Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo (the former Zaire); Population: 45 million "; "Nearly half of all Zairians practice Catholicism, and another third are Protestant, but typically Christian and traditional forms of religion are combined. " |
| Protestant | Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) | - | 36.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Protestant | Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) | 9,299,708 | 20.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* official government web site of Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) | Religions : Catholiques romains 50% ; Protestants 20% ; Kimbanguistes 10% ; Musulmans 10% ; autres 10%; [Total] Population : 46.498.539 (estimation) |
| Protestant | Zambia | 460,000 | 15.00% | - | - | 1979 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD 1979); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Total population: 5,100,000. Protestants 15%. Community 460,000. Denominations 24. Evangelicals 4% of population. |
| Protestant | Zambia | - | 46.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994); pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% "; Protestant "includes all non-Roman Catholic denominations " |
| Protestant | Zambia | - | 34.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 1 - Africa. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 56-57. | [Chapter about Bemba] "In general it is estimated that 34% of Zambia's population are Protestant, 27% hold to traditional beliefs, 26% are Roman Catholic, 8% are African Christian, and the rest follow other Christian sects, Islam, and other faiths. " |
| Protestant | Zambia | - | 27.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Protestant | Zambia | - | 37.50% | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* "Southern Africa " in SIM NOW, Feb. 1999 (vol. #85); (viewed online 6 July 1999); SIM International web site. | "Three out of four Zambians consider themselves to be Christians, with a fairly even split between Roman Catholics and Protestants. " |
| Protestant | Zimbabwe | 1,300,000 | 35.00% | - | - | 1979 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD, 1979); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Total population: 6,500,000. Protestants 35%. Community 1,300,000. Denominations 60+. Evangelical 9%. |
| Protestant | Zimbabwe | - | 33.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994); pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% "; Protestant "includes all non-Roman Catholic denominations " |
| Protestant | Zimbabwe | - | 33.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Protestant - active | Guatemala | 40,000 | - | - | - | 1940 | Scotchmer, David G. "Life of the Heart: A Maya Protestant Spirituality " in South and Meso-American Native Spirituality, ed. by Gary H. Gossen. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co. (1997); pg. 502. | "Figures suggest that by 1940, there were forty thousand active Protestants in Guatemala (Read, Monterroso, and Johnson 1969, 160) " |
| Protestant - active | Guatemala | - | 4.40% | - | - | 1967 | Scotchmer, David G. "Life of the Heart: A Maya Protestant Spirituality " in South and Meso-American Native Spirituality, ed. by Gary H. Gossen. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co. (1997); pg. 503. | "At a growth rate approx. 3 times faster than the population increase, active baptized (communicant members) Protestants made up 4.4% of the total population in 1967 (Read, Monterroso, and Johnson 1969). " |
| Protestant - active | Guatemala | - | 6.00% | - | - | 1981 | Scotchmer, David G. "Life of the Heart: A Maya Protestant Spirituality " in South and Meso-American Native Spirituality, ed. by Gary H. Gossen. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co. (1997); pg. 503. | "At a growth rate approx. 3 times faster than the population increase, active baptized (communicant members) Protestants made up 4.4% of the total population in 1967... Today, some 25 years later, the percentage has increased to nearly 6% of the general population. " |
| Protestant - active | Guatemala | 2,075,000 | 25.00% | - | - | 1997 | Scotchmer, David G. "Life of the Heart: A Maya Protestant Spirituality " in South and Meso-American Native Spirituality, ed. by Gary H. Gossen. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co. (1997); pg. 497. | "While my own study suggests that 35% of Guatemala may be called Protestant in any active sense, even the Catholic Church concedes that perhaps as many as 33% of Guatemala's 8.3 million people belong to the Protestant extended family (McCoy 1989). " |
Protestant - active, continued 