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CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Patte, General Editor
Editorial Board | Preparing Contextual, Conceptual-Theological and Historical, and Methodological Entries | CDC@vanderbilt.edu

NATION:   ARUBA

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 60,676
2000: 103,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 58,850; 97.0%
2000: 99,094; 96.2%

1.2 RELIGIOUS MAKE-UP OF THE REST OF THE POPULATION:

Bahaís: [1970] 50; 0.1%
--------  [2000] 148; 0.1%
Buddhists: [1970] 200; 0.3%
----------     [2000] 132; 0.1%
Chinese folk-religionists: [1970] 200; 0.3%
----------     [2000] 164; 0.2%
Confucianists: [1970] %
----------------  [2000] %
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] %
------------------      [2000] %
Folk-religionists: [1970] %
------------------    [2000] %
Hindus: [1970] %
-------    [2000] %
Jains: [1970] %
------  [2000] %
Jews: [1970] 250; 0.4%
-----   [2000] 144; 0.1%
Muslims: [1970] 50; 0.1%
--------     [2000] 284; 0.3%
New-Religionists: [1970] %
--------------------   [2000] %
Shintoists: [1970] %
------------  [2000] %
Sikhs: [1970] %
------- [2000] %
Spiritists: [1970] 350; 0.6%
-----------  [2000] 1,005; 1.0%
Taoists: [1970] %
----------[2000] %
Zoroastrians: [1970] %
---------------  [2000] %

Other Religionists: [1970] %
------------------       [2000] %

Atheists: [1970] 100; 0.2%
-----------[2000] 257; 0.3%
Nonreligious: [1970] 650; 1.1%
-----------------[2000] 1,442; 1.4%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 7,780; 12.8%
---------------------------   [2000] 3,853; 3.7%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 51,070; 84.2%
-------------------------- [2000] 95,241; 92.5%
Anglicans: [1970] 300; 0.5%
------------- [2000] 750; 0.7%
Orthodox: [1970] %
------------ [2000] %
Protestants: [1970] 2,240; 3.7%
-------------- [2000] 7,500; 7.3%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 48,000; 79.1%
---------------------- [2000] 84,341; 81.9%
Independents: [1970] 230; 0.4%
----------------- [2000] 1,350; 1.3%
Marginal Christians: [1970] 300; 0.5%
------------------------- [2000] 1,300; 1.3%
Doubly-affiliated: [1970] %
--------------------- [2000] %

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 2,400; 4.0%
---------------- [2000] 4,100; 4.0%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 200; 0.3%
---------------------------------- [2000] 8,450; 8.2%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 1,200; 2.0%
------------------------------------ [2000] 5,402; 5.2%
 
1.31 PERCENT OF MEMBERS REGULARLY ATTENDING WORSHIP
SERVICES