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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:     MALI

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 5,484,384
2000: 11,234,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 85,164 [1.6%]
2000: 225,440 [2.0%]

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

Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 1,120,000 [20.4%]
__________________      [2000] 1,800,595 [16.0%]
Muslims: [1970] 4,278,300 [78.0%]
________     [2000] 9,194,893 [81.9%]

Nonreligious: [1970] %
_________________[2000] 11,176 [0.1%]

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 3,984 [0.1%]
___________________________   [2000] %
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 81,180 [1.5%]
__________________________ [2000] 224,365 [2.0%]

Protestants: [1970] 20,124 [0.4%]
______________ [2000] 82,000 [0.7%]
Roman Catholics: [1970] 60,740 [1.1%]
______________________ [2000] 125,565 [1.1%]
Independents: [1970] %
_________________ [2000] 16,300 [0.2%]

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 20,400 [0.4%]
________________ [2000] 87,900 [0.8%]
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] %
__________________________________ [2000] 29,200 [0.3%]
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 73,000 [1.3%]
____________________________________ [2000] 200,207 [1.8%]