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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:  PAPUA NEW GUINEA

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 2,315,000
2000: 4,608,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 2,184,900; 94.4%
2000: 4,379,915; 95.1%

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

Bahaís: [1970] 9,300; 0.4%
________  [2000] 34,939; 0.8%
Buddhists: [1970] 2,000; 0.1%
__________     [2000] 7,415; 0.2%
Confucianists: [1970] %
________________  [2000] %
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 114,300; 4.9%
_____________     [2000] 167,068; 3.6%
Folk-religionists: [1970] 2,200; 0.1%
_________________ [2000] 3,344; 0.1%

Muslims: [1970] %
________     [2000] 1,203; 0%
New-Religionists: [1970] %
____________________   [2000] 1,270; 0%

Nonreligious: [1970] 2,000; 0.1%
_________________[2000] 12,427; 0.3%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 572,228; 24.7%
___________________________   [2000] 594,387; 12.9%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 1,612,672; 69.7%
__________________________ [2000] 3,785,528; 82.2%
Anglicans: [1970] 60,000; 2.6%
_____________ [2000] 308,000; 6.7%

Protestants: [1970] 910,278; 39.3%
______________ [2000] 2,610,000; 56.6%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 606,544; 26.2%
______________________ [2000] 1,380,000; 30.0%
Independents: [1970] 30,650; 1.3%
_________________ [2000] 270,000; 5.9%
Marginal Christians: [1970] 5,000; 0.2%
_________________________ [2000] 15,400; 0.3%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 290,000; 12.5%
________________ [2000] 810,000; 17.6%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 110,000; 4.8%
__________________________________ [2000] 751,000; 16.3%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 104,000; 4.5%
____________________________________ [2000] 523,096; 11.4%