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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: GUAM

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 85,461
2000: 167,600
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 82,300; 96.3%
2000: 157,723; 94.1%

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

Bahaís: [1970] 500; 0.6%
________  [2000] 1,863; 1.1%
Buddhists: [1970] 200; 0.2%
__________     [2000] 2,154; 1.3%
Confucianists: [1970] 150; 0.2%
________________  [2000] 235; 0.1%
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 1,000; 1.2%
_____________     [2000] 586; 0.4%
Folk-religionists: [1970] 650; 0.8%
_________________ [2000] 1,307; 0.8%

New-Religionists: [1970] 0; 0.0%
____________________   [2000] 839; 0.5%

Nonreligious: [1970] 700; 0.8%
_________________[2000] 2,849; 1.7%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 757; 0.9%
___________________________   [2000] 1,067; 0.6%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 81,543; 95.4%
__________________________ [2000] 156,656; 93.5%
Anglicans: [1970] 500; 0.6%
_____________ [2000] 900; 0.5%

Protestants: [1970] 12,634; 14.8%
______________ [2000] 17,500; 10.4%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 70,000; 81.9%
______________________ [2000] 139,400; 83.2%
Independents: [1970] 1,000; 1.2%
_________________ [2000] 2,900; 1.7%
Marginal Christians: [1970] 743; 0.9%
_________________________ [2000] 4,300; 2.6%
Doubly-affiliated: [1970] -3,334; -3.9%
_____________________ [2000] -8,344; -5.0%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 5,400; 6.3%
________________ [2000] 8,500; 5.1%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 1,300; 1.5%
__________________________________ [2000] 9,900; 5.9%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 7,300; 8.5%
____________________________________ [2000] 16,931; 10.1%
 

1.33 ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION
Guamanian: 44.2%
Filipino: 17.8%
Ilocano: 13.0%
USA White: 12.6%
Korean: 3.5%