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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:   SUDAN

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 13,859,000
2000: 29,490,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 1,175,000; 8.5%
2000: 4,920,955; 16.7%

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

Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 3,258,000; 23.5%
------------------      [2000] 3,350,000; 12.6%
Jews: [1970] 50; 0.0%
-----   [2000] 1,354; 0.0%
Muslims: [1970] 9,295,450; 67.1%
--------     [2000] 20,731,161; 70.3%

Atheists: [1970] 30,000; 0.2%
-----------[2000] 46,658; 0.2%
Nonreligious: [1970] 100,00; 0.7%
-----------------[2000] 279,891; 1.0%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 4,702; 0.0%
---------------------------   [2000] 46,564; 0.2%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 1,170,298; 8.4%
-------------------------- [2000] 4,874,000; 16.7%
Anglicans: [1970] 300,000; 2.2%
------------- [2000] 2,320,000; 7.9%
Orthodox: [1970] 107,200; 0.8%
------------ [2000] 155,000; 0.5%
Protestants: [1970] 65,030; 0.5%
-------------- [2000] 796,000; 2.6%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 687,768; 5.0%
---------------------- [2000] 3,148,593; 10.7%
Independents: [1970] 10,100; 0.1%
----------------- [2000] 150,000; 0.5%

Doubly-affiliated: [1970] 0; 0.0%
--------------------- [2000] -1,696,102; -5.8%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 188,000; 1.4%
---------------- [2000] 781,000; 2.7%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 8,000; 0.1%
---------------------------------- [2000] 649,000; 2.2%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 500,000; 3.6%
------------------------------------ [2000] 1,910,208; 6.5%