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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: NORTH  KOREA

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 14,263,964
2000: 24,039,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 142,000; 1.0%
2000: 502,646; 2.1%

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

Buddhists: [1970] 288,000; 2.0%
__________     [2000] 364,648; 1.5%
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 3,165,000; 22.2%
_____________     [2000] 2,952,452; 12.3%
Folk-religionists: [1970] %
_________________ [2000] 14,976; 0.1%
New-Religionists: [1970] 2,100,000; 14.7%
____________________   [2000] 3,095,313; 12.9%

Atheists: [1970] 3,160,000; 15.4%
___________[2000] 3,745,348; 15.6%
Nonreligious: [1970] 6,316,000; 44.3%
_________________[2000] 13,361,406; 55.6%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Affiliated Christians: [1970] 142,000; 1.0%
__________________________ [2000] 500,213; 2.1%

Protestants: [1970] 118,000; 0.8%
______________ [2000] 10,000; 0%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 15,000; 0.1%
______________ [2000] 55,000; 0.2%
Independents: [1970] 8,000; 0.1%
___________ [2000] 432,413; 1.8%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 7,500; 0.1%
__________ [2000] 20,000; 0.1%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 8,000; 0.1%
______________________ [2000] 450,000; 1.9%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 130,000; 0.9%
________________________ [2000] 468,670; 2.0%