Posted on 08/16/2004 12:31:14 PM PDT by fishtank
Great ferreting!
I'm surprised that Texas doesn't show more Catholics.
Also according to this map Oregon and Washington are fairly unchurched.???
I wonder where the demographics for this map came from???
Also -- did the shape of NM change? Or is this map just strange?
#22 is strange -- no Roman Catholic......???
| Afghanistan | Islam (Sunni 80%, Shi'ite 19%), other 1% |
| Albania | Islam 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10% (est.) |
| Algeria | Islam (Sunni) 99% |
| Andorra | Roman Catholic (predominant) |
| Angola | Indigenous 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15% (1998 est.) |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Christian (predominantly Anglican and other Protestant; some Roman Catholic) |
| Argentina | Roman Catholic 92%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4% |
| Armenia | Armenian Apostolic 94%, other Christian 4%, Yezidi 2% |
| Australia | Anglican 26.1%, Roman Catholic 26%, other Christian 24.3% |
| Austria | Roman Catholic 74%, Protestant 5%, Islam 4%, other 17% |
| Azerbaijan | Islam 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian Orthodox 2.3%, other 1.8% (1995 est.) |
| Bahamas | Baptist 32%, Anglican 20%, Roman Catholic 19%, Methodist 6%, Church of God 6%, other Protestant 12% |
| Bahrain | Islam (Shi'ite 70%, Sunni 30%) |
| Bangladesh | Islam 83%, Hindu 16%, other 1% |
| Barbados | Protestant 67% (Anglican 40%, Pentecostal 8%, Methodist 7%, other 12%), Roman Catholic 4%, none 17%, other 12% |
| Belarus | Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.) |
| Belgium | Roman Catholic 75%, Protestant or other 25% |
| Belize | Roman Catholic 49.6%, Protestant 27% (Anglican 5.3%, Methodist 3.5%, Mennonite 4.1%, Seventh-Day Adventist 5.2%, Pentecostal 7.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.5%), none 9.4%, other 14% |
| Benin | indigenous 50%, Christian 30%, Islam 20% |
| Bhutan | Lamaistic Buddhist 75%, Indian- and Nepalese-influenced Hinduism 25% |
| Bolivia | Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Slavic Muslim 40%, Orthodox 31%, Catholic 15%, Protestant 4%, other 10% |
| Botswana | indigenous beliefs 85%, Christian 15% |
| Brazil | Roman Catholic 80% |
| Brunei Darussalam | Islam (official religion) 67%, Buddhist 13%, Christian 10%, indigenous beliefs and other 10% |
| Bulgaria | Bulgarian Orthodox 82.6%, Islam 12.2%, Roman Catholic 1.7%, Jewish 0.1%, Protestant, Gregorian-Armenian, and other 3.4% (1998) |
| Burkina Faso | Islam 50%, indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian (mainly Roman Catholic) 10% |
| Burundi | Roman Catholic 62%, indigenous 23%, Islam 10%, Protestant 5% |
| Cambodia | Theravada Buddhist 95%, others 5% |
| Cameroon | indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 40%, Islam 20% |
| Canada | Roman Catholic 46%, Protestant 36%, other 18% (based on 1991 census) |
| Cape Verde | Roman Catholic (infused with indigenous beliefs), Protestant (mostly Church of the Nazarene) |
| Central African Republic | indigenous beliefs 35%, Protestant and Roman Catholic (both with animist influence) 25% each, Islam 15% |
| Chad | Islam 51%, Christian 35%, animist 7%, other 7% |
| Chile | Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 11%, small Jewish and Muslim populations |
| China | Officially atheist but traditional religion contains elements of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism |
| Colombia | Roman Catholic 90% |
| Comoros | Sunni Muslim 98%, Roman Catholic 2% |
| Congo, Republic of | Christian 50%, animist 48%, Islam 2% |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Islam 10%; other syncretic and indigenous, 10% |
| Costa Rica | Roman Catholic 76.3%, Evangelical 13.7%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.3%, other Protestant 0.7%, other 4.8%, none 3.2% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | indigenous 25%-40%, Islam 35%-40%, Christian 20%-30% (2001) |
| Croatia | Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, others and unknown 6.2% (2001) |
| Cuba | nominally 85% Roman Catholic before Castro assumed power |
| Cyprus | Greek Orthodox 78%, Islam 18%, Maronite, Armenian Apostolic, Latin, and others 4% (1993 est.) |
| Czech Republic | atheist 39.8%, Roman Catholic 39.2%, Protestant 4.6%, Orthodox 3%, other 13.4% |
| Denmark | Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2% |
| Djibouti | Islam 94%, Christian 6% |
| Dominica | Roman Catholic 77%, Protestant 15% (Methodist 5%, Pentecostal 3%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3%, Baptist 2%, other 2%), none 2%, other 6% |
| Dominican Republic | Roman Catholic 95% |
| East Timor | Roman Catholic 90%, Islam 4%, Protestant 3%, Hindu 0.5%, Buddhist, animist (1992 est.) |
| Ecuador | Roman Catholic 95% |
| Egypt | Islam (mostly Sunni) 94%, Coptic Christian and other 6% |
| El Salvador | Catholics 83%; growing population of evangelical Protestants (1992) |
| Equatorial Guinea | nominally Christian and predominantly Roman Catholic, pagan practices |
| Eritrea | Islam, Eritrean Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholic, Protestant |
| Estonia | Evangelical Lutheran, Russian Orthodox, Estonian Orthodox, Baptist, Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Word of Life, Jewish |
| Ethiopia | Islam 45%–50%, Ethiopian Orthodox 35%–40%, animist 12%, other 3%-8% |
| Fiji | Christian 52% (Methodist 37%, Roman Catholic 9%), Hindu 38%, Islam 8%, other 2% |
| Finland | Evangelical Lutheran 89%, Greek Orthodox 1%, none 9%, other 1% |
| France | Roman Catholic 83%-88%, Protestant 2%, Islam 5%-10%, Jewish 1% |
| Gabon | Christian 55%-75%, Animist, Islam less than 1% |
| Gambia, The | Islam 90%, Christian 9%, indigenous 1% |
| Georgia | Georgian Orthodox 65%, Islam 11%, Russian Orthodox 10%, Armenian Orthodox 8%, unknown 6% |
| Germany | Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Islam 3.7%, Unaffiliated or other 28.3% |
| Ghana | Christian 63%, indigenous beliefs 21%, Islam 16% |
| Greece | Greek Orthodox 98%, Islam 1.3%, other 0.7% |
| Grenada | Roman Catholic 53%, Anglican 13.8%, other Protestant 33.2% |
| Guatemala | Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs |
| Guinea | Islam 85%, Christian 8%, indigenous 7% |
| Guinea-Bissau | indigenous beliefs 50%, Islam 45%, Christian 5% |
| Guyana | Christian 50%, Hindu 35%, Islam 10%, other 5% |
| Haiti | Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), other 3%, none 1%. Note: roughly half the population practices Vaudou. |
| Honduras | Roman Catholic 97%, growing population of evangelical Protestants |
| Hungary | Roman Catholic 67.5%, Calvinist 20%, Lutheran 5%, atheist and others 7.5% |
| Iceland | Church of Iceland (Evangelical Lutheran) 87.1%, other Protestant 4.1%, Roman Catholic 1.7%, other 7.1% (2002) |
| India | Hindu 81.3%, Islam 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other (including Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis) 2.5% |
| Indonesia | Islam 88%, Protestant 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 2%, Buddhist 1%, other 1% |
| Iran | Shi'ite Muslim 89%, Sunni Muslim 10% |
| Iraq | Islam 97% (Shi'ite 60%–65%, Sunni 32%–37%), Christian or other 3% |
| Ireland | Roman Catholic 91.6%, Anglican 2.5%, other 5.9% |
| Israel | Judaism 80.1%, Islam 14.6%, Christian 2.1%, others 3.2% |
| Italy | Roman Catholic 98%, other 2% |
| Jamaica | Protestant 61.3%, Roman Catholic 4%, other 39.1% |
| Japan | Shintoist, Buddhist, Christian |
| Jordan | Islam 92%, Christian 6%, other 2% |
| Kazakhstan | Islam, 47%; Russian Orthodox, 44%; Protestant, 2%; other, 7% |
| Kenya | Protestant, 45%; Roman Catholic, 33%; traditional, 10%; Islam, 10%; others, 2% |
| Kiribati | Roman Catholic 52%, Protestant 40% |
| Korea, North | Buddhism and Confucianism; religious activities almost nonexistent |
| Korea, South | Christian, 49%; Buddhist, 47%; Confucianist, 3%; Chondogyo (religion of the Heavenly Way) and other, 1% (1996 est.) |
| Kuwait | Islam, 85% (Shi'ite 30%, Sunni 70%), Christian, Hindu, Parsi, and other, 15% |
| Kyrgyzstan | Islam, 75%; Russian Orthodox, 20%; other, 5% |
| Laos | Buddhist 60%, animist and other 40% |
| Latvia | Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Russian Orthodox |
| Lebanon | Islam 70%, Christian 30% (17 recognized sects), Judaism negl. (1 sect) |
| Lesotho | Christian 80%, indigenous beliefs, Islam, and Bahai |
| Liberia | traditional 40%, Christian 40%, Islam 20% |
| Libya | Islam |
| Liechtenstein | Roman Catholic, 76.2%, Protestant, 7%; unknown, 10.6%; other, 6.2% |
| Lithuania | Catholic 85%, others include Lutheran, Russian Orthodox, Protestant, evangelical Christian Baptist, Islam, Judaism |
| Luxembourg | Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant and Jewish 3% |
| Macedonia | Eastern Orthodox 67%, Islam 30% (1994) |
| Madagascar | traditional 52%, Christian 41%, Islam 7% |
| Malawi | Christian 75%, Islam 20% |
| Malaysia | Malays (all Muslims), Chinese (predominantly Buddhists), Indians (predominantly Hindus) |
| Maldives | Islam (Sunni Muslim) |
| Mali | Islam 90%, traditional 9%, Christian 1% |
| Malta | Roman Catholic 98% |
| Marshall Islands | predominantly Christian, mostly Protestant |
| Mauritania | Islam |
| Mauritius | Hindu 52%, Christian 28.3%, Islam 16.6%, other 3.1% |
| Mexico | nominally Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 6%, other 5% |
| Moldova | Eastern Orthodox 98%, Jewish 1.5%, Baptist and other 0.5% (2000) |
| Monaco | Roman Catholic 90% |
| Mongolia | predominantly Tibetan Buddhist; Islam about 4% |
| Morocco | Islam 98.7%, Christian 1.1%, Jewish 0.2% |
| Mozambique | traditional 50%, Christian 30%, Islam 20% |
| Myanmar | Buddhist 89%, Christian 4%, Islam 4%, Animist 1%, other 2% |
| Namibia | Predominantly Christian |
| Nauru | Protestant 58%, Roman Catholic 24%, Confucian and Taoist 8% |
| Nepal | Hindu 86.2%, Buddhist 7.8%, Islam 3.8%, other 2.2% |
| The Netherlands | Roman Catholic 31%, Protestant 21%, Islam 4.4%, other 3.6%, unaffiliated 40% |
| New Zealand | Christian 81%, none or unspecified 18%, Hindu, Confucian, and other 1% |
| Nicaragua | Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 15% |
| Niger | Islam 80%, Animist and Christian 20% |
| Nigeria | Islam 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous 10% |
| Norway | Evangelical Lutheran 86% (state church), other Protestant and Roman Catholic 36%, other 1%, none and unknown 10% |
| Oman | Islam 95% |
| Pakistan | Islam 97%, Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Parsi |
| Palau | Christian. About one-third of the islanders observe Modekngei religion, indigenous to Palau |
| Palestinian State (proposed) | West Bank: Islam 75%, Jewish 17%, Christian and other 8%; Gaza Strip: Islam 98.7%, Christian 0.7%, Jewish 0.6% |
| Panama | Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 15% |
| Papua New Guinea | over half are Christian, remainder indigenous |
| Paraguay | Roman Catholic 90% |
| Peru | Roman Catholic (90%) |
| The Philippines | Roman Catholic 83%, Protestant 9%, Islam 5%, Buddhist and other 3% |
| Poland | Roman Catholic 95% (about 75% practicing), Russian Orthodox, Protestant, and other 5% |
| Portugal | Roman Catholic 94%, Protestant |
| Qatar | Islam 95% |
| Romania | Romanian Orthodox 87%, Protestant 6.8%, Roman Catholic 5.6%, other 0.4%, unaffiliated 0.2% |
| Russia | Russian Orthodox, Islam, others |
| Rwanda | Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Islam 4.6%, Animist 0.1% |
| St. Lucia | Roman Catholic 90%, Protestant 7%, Anglican 3% |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Anglican 47%, Methodist 28%, Roman Catholic 13% |
| Samoa | Christian 99.7% |
| San Marino | Roman Catholic |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Roman Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, Seventh-Day Adventist |
| Saudi Arabia | Islam 100% |
| Senegal | Islam 94%, Christian 5%, indigenous 1% |
| Serbia and Montenegro | Orthodox 65%, Islam 19%, Roman Catholic 4%, Protestant 1%, other 11% |
| Seychelles | Roman Catholic 86.6%, Anglican 6.8%, other Christian 2.5%, other 4.1% |
| Sierra Leone | Islam 60%, Indigenous 30%, Christian 10% |
| Singapore | Islam, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist |
| Slovakia | Roman Catholic 60.3%, atheist 9.7%, Protestant 8.4%, Orthodox 4.1%, other 17.5% |
| Slovenia | Roman Catholic 70.8% (including 2% Uniate), Lutheran 1%, Islam 1%, other 27.2% |
| Solomon Islands | Anglican, Roman Catholic, South Seas Evangelical, Seventh-Day Adventist, United (Methodist) Church, other Protestant |
| Somalia | Islam (Sunni) |
| South Africa | Christian; Hindu; Islam |
| Spain | Roman Catholic 94% |
| Sri Lanka | Buddhist 70%, Hindu 15%, Christian 8%, Islam 7% |
| Sudan | Islam (Sunni) 70%, indigenous 20%, Christian 5% |
| Suriname | Hindu 27.4%, Protestant 25.2%, Roman Catholic 22.8%, Islam 19.6%, indigenous about 5% |
| Swaziland | Christian 60%, indigenous 40% |
| Sweden | Evangelical Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic 1.5%, Pentecostal 1%, other 3.5% |
| Switzerland | Roman Catholic 46.1%, Protestant 40%, other 5%, no religion 8.9% |
| Syria | Islam 90%, Christian 10% |
| Taiwan | mixture of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist 93%, Christian 4.5%, other 2.5% |
| Tajikistan | Sunni Muslim 85% |
| Tanzania | mainland: Christian 30%, Islam 35%, indigenous 35%; Zanzibar: Islam, 99% |
| Thailand | Buddhist 95%, Islam 3.8%, Christian 0.5%, Hindu 0.1%, other 0.6% |
| Togo | Indigenous beliefs 51%, Christian 29%, Islam 20% |
| Tonga | Christian; Free Wesleyan Church claims over 30,000 adherents |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Roman Catholic 29.4%, Hindu 23.8%, Anglican 10.9%, Islam 5.8%, Presbyterian 3.4%, other 26.7% |
| Tunisia | Islam (Sunni) 98%, Christian 1%, Jewish, less than 1% |
| Turkey | Islam (mostly Sunni) 99.8% |
| Turkmenistan | Islam 89%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, unknown 2% |
| Tuvalu | Church of Tuvalu (Congregationalist) 97% |
| Uganda | Christian 66%, Islam 16% |
| Ukraine | Orthodox 76%, Ukrainian Catholic (Uniate) 13.5%, Jewish 2.3%, Baptist, Mennonite, Protestant, and Islam 8.2% |
| United Arab Emirates | Islam (Sunni 80%, Shi'ite 16%), others 4% |
| United Kingdom | Church of England (established church), Church of Wales (disestablished), Church of Scotland (established church—Presbyterian), Church of Ireland (disestablished), Roman Catholic, Methodist, Congregational, Baptist, Jewish |
| United States | Protestant, 56%; Roman Catholic, 28%; Jewish, 2%; other, 4%; none, 10% |
| Uruguay | Roman Catholic 66%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1% |
| Uzbekistan | Islam (mostly Sunnis) 88%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3% |
| Vanuatu | Presbyterian 36.7%, Roman Catholic 15%, Anglican 15%, other Christian 10%, indigenous beliefs 7.6%, other 15.7% |
| Vatican City (Holy See) | Roman Catholic. |
| Venezuela | Roman Catholic 96%, Protestant 2% |
| Vietnam | Buddhist, Roman Catholic, Islam, Taoist, Confucian, Animist |
| Western Sahara (proposed state) | Islam |
| Yemen | Islam (Sunni and Shi'ite) |
| Zambia | Christian 50%–75%, Islam and Hindu 24%–49%, remainder indigenous beliefs |
| Zimbabwe | Christian 25%, Animist 24%, Syncretic 50% |
I found a table at the Census bureau listing Christian adherents as a percent of the population by state in 1990.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/statab/sec01.pdf
Table 76 on page 62 of the 2000 Statistical Abstract of the United States.
The following book may have a map. It may be in your library.
Religious Congregations & Membership: 2000
“This study reports that 140 million Americans are associated with one of the 149 religious bodies participating in the study,” said Dale E. Jones, chair of the committee that directed this study for its sponsoring organization, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). “That’s half (50.2%) of all Americans.” Jones is the director of the Nazarene Research Center (Kansas City, Mo.) which managed and processed the 2000 data.
Like all previous reports in this series of studies on U.S. religious affiliation, data are reported by region, state and county. The last report, Churches and Church Membership in the United States: 1990, included data on 133 church/congregational groupings. The 2000 study and its publication are made possible by a grant from the Lilly Endowment. Inc.
http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/release.htm
Thanks for the map. From the looks of things, either I'm in a Baptist area or it's time to plant my fall zinnias.
Bump for map reference
I would agree that urban New England is heavily Roman Catholic, but the rural areas are largely Congregationalist. I would also have included the Mennonite/Amish areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Alaska has historically been Russian Orthodox, but I don't know if that's true today.
Thanks. I thought about that too late last night.
Interesting that in the list you referenced, that of all the countries in the world, the country with the highest percentage of people whose religion is "none" is . . . . . . the United States.
Presbyterians and other minor denominations are small and irrelevant groups that do not have a majority or plurality in any county. That's why you don't see them on the map.
Rurual New England hasn't been "largely Congregationalist" for 150 years. New England has very few New English any more. Its mostly, Irish, French-Canadian, Portuguese, and Italian, hence over 50% Catholic nearly everywhere.
The New English forgot to have children starting about 100-150 years ago. Its been downhill for them ever since.
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