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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:  NEW CALEDONIA

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 108,154
2000: 214,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 99,100;  91.6%
2000: 186,195; 87.0%

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

Bahaís: [1970] 400; 0.4%
________  [2000] 932; 0.4%
Buddhists: [1970] 400; 0.4%
__________     [2000] 2,950; 1.4%
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 300; 0.3%
_____________     [2000] 272; 0.1%
Muslims: [1970] 4,400; 4.1%
________     [2000] 5,842; 2.7%
New-Religionists: [1970] %
____________________   [2000] 3,499; 1.6%

Other Religionists: [1970] 100; 0.1%
__________________       [2000] 482; 0.2%

Atheists: [1970] %
___________[2000] 1,544; 0.7%
Nonreligious: [1970] 3,300; 3.1%
_________________[2000] 12,312; 5.8%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 610; 0.6%
___________________________   [2000] 24,516; 11.5%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 98,490; 91.1%
__________________________ [2000] 161,679; 75.6%
Anglicans: [1970] 50; 0.1%
_____________ [2000] 160; 0.1%
Protestants: [1970] 17,940; 16.6%
______________ [2000] 30,000; 14.0%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 76,500; 70.7%
______________________ [2000] 116,019; 54.2%
Independents: [1970] 3,000; 2.8%
_________________ [2000] 11,000; 5.1%
Marginal Christians: [1970] 1,000; 0.9%
_________________________ [2000] 4,500; 2.1%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 6,000; 5.6%
________________ [2000] 10,800; 5.1%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 500; 0.5%
__________________________________ [2000] 11,800; 5.5%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 13,000; 12.0%
____________________________________ [2000] 40,236; 18.8%