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Christianc

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Country/territory % Christian Total pop. Largest denom. % in largest denom. Year Cit.
 Vatican City 100.0 764 Catholic 100.0 2024 [1]
 East Timor (details) 99.5 1,340,513 Catholic 97.6 2016 [2][3]
 Samoa (details) 97.9 205,557 Protestant 54.9
 Armenia 98.5 Armenian Apostolic Church 96.0
 American Samoa 98.3 Protestant
 Malta 98.1 Catholic
 Venezuela 98.0 Catholic
 Greece 98.0 Eastern Orthodox
 Marshall Islands 97.2 Protestant 97.2
 Tonga 97.2 Protestant
 San Marino 97.0 Catholic
 Paraguay 96.9 Catholic
 El Salvador 96.4 Catholic
 Greenland 96.1 56,583 Church of Greenland 93 [4]
 Faroe Islands 95.4 54,738 Church of the Faroe Islands 77.0
 Kiribati 96.0% Protestant 96.0 2009 [5]
 Federated States of Micronesia ~96.0% Protestant 96.0[6]
 Barbados 95.1% Protestant 95.1%[7]
 Papua New Guinea 94.8% Protestant 94.8%[8][better source needed]
 Mexico 94.6% Roman Catholic 94.6%
 Peru 94.51% Roman Catholic 94.51%[9]
 Romania 93.0% Eastern Orthodox 93.0%[10]
 Poland 92.9% Roman Catholic 92.9%[11]
 Croatia 91.1% Roman Catholic 91.1%[12]
 Philippines 90.0% Roman Catholic 90.0%

Lutheran

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Lutheranism – 70–90 million
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Lutheranism by country

The number of adherents in the Lutheran denomination totals to 70-90 million persons (the Lutheran World Federation reports 77 million, and is the sixth largest communion),[13] being represented in the following churches:[14][15]

Country/territory Church Size (millions) Cit.
 Germany Protestant Church in Germany 19.2 [16]
 Ethiopia Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus 10.4 [17]
 Tanzania Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania 7.9 [18]
 Sweden Church of Sweden 5.6 [19][20]
 India United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India 4.5 [21]
 Denmark Church of Denmark 4.3 [22][23]
 Indonesia Batak Christian Protestant Church 4.1 [24]
 Madagascar Malagasy Lutheran Church 4.0 [25]
 Finland Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland 3.8 [26][27]
 Norway Church of Norway 3.7 [28][29]
 United States Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 3.5 [30][31]
 Nigeria The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria 2.2 [32]
 United States Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod 1.8 [33]
 Papua New Guinea Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea 1.8 [34]
 Namibia Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia 0.85 [35]
 South Africa Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa 0.6 [36]
 Brazil Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil 0.63 [37][38]
 Indonesia The Protestant Christian Church 0.5 [24]
 Namibia Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia 0.4 [35]
 United States Evangelical Free Church of America 0.4 [39]
 Indonesia The Indonesian Christian Church 0.3 [24]
Worldwide Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ 0.3 [40]
 Cameroon Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon 0.3 [41]
 Austria Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria 0.3 [42]
 Zimbabwe Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe 0.3 [43]
 Latvia Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia 0.3 [44]
 Indonesia Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia 0.3 [24]
 United States Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod 0.3 [45]
 Iceland Church of Iceland 0.2 [46]
 Indonesia Simalungun Protestant Christian Church 0.2 [24]
 Brazil Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil 0.2 [47]
 France Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine 0.2 [48]
 Slovakia Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia 0.2 [49]
 Hungary Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary 0.2 [50]
 Estonia Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church 0.2 [51]
 Romania Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania 0.2 [52]
Worldwide Laestadianism (various churches) 0.2
 Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya 0.1 [53]
 Canada Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada 0.1 [54]
 Poland Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland 0.06 [55]
 Faroe Islands Church of the Faroe Islands 0.04 [56]
 Hong Kong Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong 0.02
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  12. ^ "Population by Religion, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  13. ^ "About the LWF". The Lutheran World Federation. 2013-05-19. Retrieved 2021-08-03. The LWF is a global communion of 148 churches in the Lutheran tradition, representing over 77 million Christians in 99 countries.
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  25. ^ "Madagascar | The Lutheran World Federation". lutheranworld.org. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  26. ^ Jäsentilasto 2022 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
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  28. ^ Church of Norway – main figures 15 June 2022 Statistics Norway
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  30. ^ "Summary of Congregational Statistics as of 12-31-2021" (PDF). Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. December 31, 2021. Retrieved October 14, 2022.
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