Protestantism by country (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Protestantism by country" in English language version.

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abs.gov.au (Global: 653^rd place; English: 498^th place)

censusdata.abs.gov.au

2016 Census of Population and General Community (Sheet G14) Australian Bureau of Statistics

admin.ch (Global: 279^th place; English: 551^st place)

bfs.admin.ch

Statistik, Bundesamt für. "Religionen". www.bfs.admin.ch (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2019.

aljazeera.com (Global: 268^th place; English: 215^th place)

Arsenault, Chris (26 March 2012). "Evangelicals rise in Latin America". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

archive.today (Global: 14^th place; English: 14^th place)

"Table: Christian Population in Numbers by Country". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 19 December 2011. Archived from the original on 16 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

bbc.co.uk (Global: 8^th place; English: 10^th place)

"BBC News - US Protestants no longer a majority - study". BBC News. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

bbc.com (Global: 20^th place; English: 30^th place)

"Avanço evangélico perde força e outros 7 dados inéditos sobre religião no Censo 2022". BBC. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
"Avanço evangélico perde força e outros 7 dados inéditos sobre religião no Censo 2022". BBC. Retrieved 6 June 2025.

biblicalstudies.org.uk (Global: low place; English: 9,527^th place)

"Protestantism in Postsoviet Russia: An Unacknowledged Triumph" (PDF).

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Hillerbrand, Hans J. (2 August 2004). Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Routledge. ISBN 9781135960285. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Clarke, Peter B.; Beyer, Peter (7 May 2009). The World's Religions. ISBN 9781135211004. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Brown, Stephen F.; Palmer, Martin (2009). Protestantism. ISBN 9781604131123. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Noll, Mark A. (25 August 2011). Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction. ISBN 9780191620133. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Jay Diamond, Larry. Plattner, Marc F. and Costopoulos, Philip J. World Religions and Democracy. 2005, page 119. link (saying "Not only do Protestants presently constitute 13 percent of the world's population—about 800 million people—but since 1900 Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.")
Hillerbrand, Hans J. (2 August 2004). Encyclopedia of Protestantism: 4-volume Set. Routledge. ISBN 9781135960285 – via Google Books.
Thorpe, Edgar (2012). The Pearson General Knowledge Manual 2012. ISBN 9788131761908. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Mastrini, Hana (16 June 2008). Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic. ISBN 9780470293232. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Witte, John; Alexander, Frank S. (2007). The Teachings of Modern Protestantism on Law, Politics, and Human Nature. ISBN 9780231142632. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Gordon Melton, J. (2005). Encyclopedia of Protestantism. ISBN 9780816069835. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Halman, Loek; Riis, Ole (2003). Religion in a Secularizing Society. ISBN 9004126228. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Sengers, Erik; Sunier, Thijl (2010). Religious Newcomers and the Nation State. ISBN 9789059723986. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
Harriet Zuckerman, Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States New York, The Free Press, 1977, p.68: Protestants turn up among the American-reared laureates in slightly greater proportion to their numbers in the general population. Thus 72 percent of the seventy-one laureates but about two thirds of the American population were reared in one or another Protestant denomination-)
Johnstone, Patrick (17 January 2014). The Future of the Global Church: History, Trends and Possibilities. InterVarsity Press. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-0-8308-5695-4. Fig 4.10 & Fig 4.11 in page 100
Hillerbrand, Hans J. (2 August 2004). Encyclopedia of Protestantism: 4-volume set. Routledge. p. 3242. ISBN 978-1-135-96027-8. Observers carefully comparing all these figures in the total context will have observed the even more startling finding that for the first time ever in the history of Protestantism, Wider Protestants will by 2050 have become almost exactly as numerous as Roman Catholics - each with just over 1.5 billion followers, or 17 percent of the world, with Protestants growing considerably faster than Catholics each year.
Juergensmeyer, Mark (3 November 2005). Religion in Global Civil Society. Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 9780198040699 – via Google Books.
Klepeis, Alicia Z. (2019). Costa Rica. Bellwether Media. ISBN 9781618915887.
Central Intelligence Agency (2019). The CIA World Factbook 2019-2020. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781510750470.

cbn.com (Global: 3,184^th place; English: 1,919^th place)

"Moscow Church Spearheads Russia Revival". Retrieved 14 February 2015.

ccc.one (Global: low place; English: low place)

"CCC - Global Statistics". Retrieved 5 December 2015.

christianitytoday.com (Global: 2,002^nd place; English: 1,199^th place)

Felix Corley and Geraldine Fagan. "Growing Protestants, Catholics Draw Ire". ChristianityToday.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

churchtimes.co.uk (Global: low place; English: 6,728^th place)

Gavin Drake, "Survey reveals falling numbers," http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles2014/20-june/news/uk/survey-reveals-falling-numb...6/25/2014

cia.gov (Global: 89^th place; English: 147^th place)

33.39% of 7.174 billion world population (as of 2014; under the section "People and Society") "World". CIA world facts. 19 October 2021.
"Costa Rica". The World Factbook-16%. 19 October 2021.
"East Asia/Southeast Asia :: Philippines — The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov. 25 October 2021.
"Tanzania". 26 October 2021.

conicet.gov.ar (Global: low place; English: low place)

Creencias, valores y actitudes en la sociedad Argentina, conicet.gov.ar, 29 January 2020 (Spanish)

cooperativa.cl (Global: 2,407^th place; English: 8,288^th place)

"El Papa Francisco y la Religión en Chile y América Latina" Latinobarómetro 1995-2017, Enero 2018
"Latinobarómetro 1995 - 2017: El Papa Francisco y la Religión en Chile y América Latina" (PDF) (in Spanish). January 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

cssn.cn (Global: low place; English: low place)

iwr.cssn.cn

"中国到底有多少基督徒？——基于中国家庭追踪调查的估计" (PDF). 察网. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2020.

czso.cz (Global: 845^th place; English: 2,321^st place)

"Tab 7.1 Population by religious belief and by municipality size groups" (PDF) (in Czech). Czso.cz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
"Tab 7.2 Population by religious belief and by regions" (PDF) (in Czech). Czso.cz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.

dhsprogram.com (Global: low place; English: 8,988^th place)

"Timor-Leste: Demographic and Health Survey, 2016" (PDF). General Directorate of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Finance & Ministry of Health. p. 35. Retrieved 21 April 2018.

ekd.de (Global: 7,422^nd place; English: low place)

"Gezählt 2021 - Zahlen und Fakten zum kirchlichen Leben" (PDF). ekd.de. Retrieved 4 January 2022.

europa.eu (Global: 68^th place; English: 117^th place)

ec.europa.eu

"Discrimination in the EU in 2019", Special Eurobarometer, 493, European Union: European Commission, p. 230, 2019, retrieved 12 September 2020

evang.at (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Zahlen & Fakten". Evang.at. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.

fsmitha.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Protestant Demographics and Fragmentations". Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

gisxxi.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Religion in Venezuela (see pag 41-42)

go.com (Global: 48^th place; English: 39^th place)

abcnews.go.com

"Protestants decline, more have no religion in a sharply shifting religious landscape (POLL)". ABC News.

gordonconwell.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Status of Global Christianity, 2024, in the Context of 1900–2050" (PDF). Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Retrieved 23 May 2024.

hagstofa.is (Global: low place; English: low place)

px.hagstofa.is

"Populations by religious organizations 1998-2022". Reykjavík, Iceland: Statistics Iceland. Retrieved 7 July 2022.

ibge.gov.br (Global: 313^th place; English: 1,263^rd place)

agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br

"Censo 2022: católicos seguem em queda; evangélicos e sem religião crescem no país". IBGE. Retrieved 6 June 2025.

ibtimes.com (Global: 911^th place; English: 628^th place)

"In China, Protestantism's Simplicity Yields More Converts Than Catholicism". International Business Times. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

kemenag.go.id (Global: 9,597^th place; English: low place)

data.kemenag.go.id

"Statistik Umat Menurut Agama di Indonesia" (in Indonesian). Kementerian Agama Republik Indonesia. 15 May 2018. Archived from the original on 3 September 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020. Muslim 231.069.932 (86.7), Christian 20.246.267 (7.6), Catholic 8.325.339 (3.12), Hindu 4.646.357 (1.74), Buddhist 2.062.150 (0.77), Confucianism 117091 (0.03), Other 299617 (0.13), Not Stated 139582 (0.06), Not Asked 757118 (0.32), Total 237641326

latinobarometro.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Latinobarometro Retrieved 8 February 2018
[1] retrieved 10 December 2022
Latinobarometro retrieved 8 February 2018

leaderu.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline". Retrieved 14 February 2015.

museeprotestant.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Protestantism in Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) - Musée virtuel du Protestantisme". Retrieved 14 February 2015.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

Lilla, Mark (31 March 2006). "Europe and the legend of secularization". The New York Times.

pewforum.org (Global: 926^th place; English: 945^th place)

pewforum.org

"Christian Traditions" (Web). Pew Research Center. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
"Global Christianity". Pew Research Center. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
""Nones" on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
"Religion in Latin America". Pew Forum. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
"The Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population". Pew Research Center. 19 December 2011.
"America's Changing Religious Landscape". Pew Research Center: Religion & Public Life. 12 May 2015.

features.pewforum.org

"Table: Christian Population in Numbers by Country". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 19 December 2011. Archived from the original on 16 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

pewresearch.org (Global: 1,418^th place; English: 966^th place)

assets.pewresearch.org

Hackett, Conrad (December 2011). "Global Christianity A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population" (PDF). Pew–Templeton global religious futures project. pp. 19, 27, 57, 60, 75, 83, 90, 119. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2021. Estimated 2010 Christian Population 31,850,000 (pages 19, 60, 75) Protestant 18,860,000

rasset.ie (Global: low place; English: low place)

static.rasset.ie

Census 2016 Summary Results April 2017, Central Statistics Office, Ireland

semanariouniversidad.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Murillo, Alvaro (6 March 2018). "Ahora solo la mitad de los ticos se declara católica". Semanario Universidad. Retrieved 2 January 2019.

ssb.no (Global: 1,159^th place; English: 1,457^th place)

Church of Norway Statistics Norway
Members of Christian communities outside the Church of Norway Statistics Norway

stat.fi (Global: 1,881^st place; English: 2,865^th place)

pxdata.stat.fi

Belonging to a religious community by age and sex, 2000-2024 Statistics Finland

statcan.gc.ca (Global: 404^th place; English: 305^th place)

www12.statcan.gc.ca

"Profile Table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 29 August 2023.

statista.com (Global: 776^th place; English: 844^th place)

Religion affiliation in Bolivia as of 2018. Based on Latinobarómetro. Survey period: 15 June to 2 August 2018, 1,200 respondents.

statistics.gov.tl (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Nationality, Citizenship, and Religion". Government of Timor-Leste. 25 October 2015. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020.

statistics.gov.uk (Global: 1,258^th place; English: 914^th place)

"Religious Populations in England". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 April 2011.

stats.govt.nz (Global: 1,961^st place; English: 1,303^rd place)

"2018 Census totals by topic – national highlights | Stats NZ". www.stats.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2020.

time.com (Global: 61^st place; English: 54^th place)

content.time.com

Ostling, Richard N. (24 June 2001). "The Battle for Latin America's Soul". Time. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

un.org (Global: 97^th place; English: 164^th place)

population.un.org

"World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
"World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950–2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.

usatoday.com (Global: 41^st place; English: 34^th place)

usatoday30.usatoday.com

"Study: Christianity growth soars in Africa". USA Today. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

"Major Religions Ranked by Size". Adherents.com. Archived from the original on 16 August 2000. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
"Protestant Demographics and Fragmentations". Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
"Tab 7.1 Population by religious belief and by municipality size groups" (PDF) (in Czech). Czso.cz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
"Tab 7.2 Population by religious belief and by regions" (PDF) (in Czech). Czso.cz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
""Nones" on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
"Nationality, Citizenship, and Religion". Government of Timor-Leste. 25 October 2015. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
Hackett, Conrad (December 2011). "Global Christianity A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population" (PDF). Pew–Templeton global religious futures project. pp. 19, 27, 57, 60, 75, 83, 90, 119. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2021. Estimated 2010 Christian Population 31,850,000 (pages 19, 60, 75) Protestant 18,860,000
"Statistik Umat Menurut Agama di Indonesia" (in Indonesian). Kementerian Agama Republik Indonesia. 15 May 2018. Archived from the original on 3 September 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020. Muslim 231.069.932 (86.7), Christian 20.246.267 (7.6), Catholic 8.325.339 (3.12), Hindu 4.646.357 (1.74), Buddhist 2.062.150 (0.77), Confucianism 117091 (0.03), Other 299617 (0.13), Not Stated 139582 (0.06), Not Asked 757118 (0.32), Total 237641326
"2018 Census totals by topic – national highlights | Stats NZ". www.stats.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Religion in Venezuela (see pag 41-42)

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abs.gov.au (Global: 653rd place; English: 498th place)

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admin.ch (Global: 279th place; English: 551st place)

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aljazeera.com (Global: 268th place; English: 215th place)

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christianitytoday.com (Global: 2,002nd place; English: 1,199th place)

churchtimes.co.uk (Global: low place; English: 6,728th place)

cia.gov (Global: 89th place; English: 147th place)

conicet.gov.ar (Global: low place; English: low place)

cooperativa.cl (Global: 2,407th place; English: 8,288th place)

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czso.cz (Global: 845th place; English: 2,321st place)

dhsprogram.com (Global: low place; English: 8,988th place)

ekd.de (Global: 7,422nd place; English: low place)

europa.eu (Global: 68th place; English: 117th place)

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gisxxi.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

go.com (Global: 48th place; English: 39th place)

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gordonconwell.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

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ibge.gov.br (Global: 313th place; English: 1,263rd place)

agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br

ibtimes.com (Global: 911th place; English: 628th place)

kemenag.go.id (Global: 9,597th place; English: low place)

data.kemenag.go.id

latinobarometro.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

leaderu.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

museeprotestant.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

nytimes.com (Global: 7th place; English: 7th place)

pewforum.org (Global: 926th place; English: 945th place)

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features.pewforum.org

pewresearch.org (Global: 1,418th place; English: 966th place)

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ssb.no (Global: 1,159th place; English: 1,457th place)

stat.fi (Global: 1,881st place; English: 2,865th place)

pxdata.stat.fi

statcan.gc.ca (Global: 404th place; English: 305th place)

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statista.com (Global: 776th place; English: 844th place)

statistics.gov.tl (Global: low place; English: low place)

statistics.gov.uk (Global: 1,258th place; English: 914th place)

stats.govt.nz (Global: 1,961st place; English: 1,303rd place)

time.com (Global: 61st place; English: 54th place)

content.time.com

un.org (Global: 97th place; English: 164th place)

population.un.org

usatoday.com (Global: 41st place; English: 34th place)

usatoday30.usatoday.com

web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)

abs.gov.au (Global: 653^rd place; English: 498^th place)

admin.ch (Global: 279^th place; English: 551^st place)

aljazeera.com (Global: 268^th place; English: 215^th place)

archive.today (Global: 14^th place; English: 14^th place)

bbc.co.uk (Global: 8^th place; English: 10^th place)

bbc.com (Global: 20^th place; English: 30^th place)

biblicalstudies.org.uk (Global: low place; English: 9,527^th place)

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

cbn.com (Global: 3,184^th place; English: 1,919^th place)

christianitytoday.com (Global: 2,002^nd place; English: 1,199^th place)

churchtimes.co.uk (Global: low place; English: 6,728^th place)

cia.gov (Global: 89^th place; English: 147^th place)

cooperativa.cl (Global: 2,407^th place; English: 8,288^th place)

czso.cz (Global: 845^th place; English: 2,321^st place)

dhsprogram.com (Global: low place; English: 8,988^th place)

ekd.de (Global: 7,422^nd place; English: low place)

europa.eu (Global: 68^th place; English: 117^th place)

go.com (Global: 48^th place; English: 39^th place)

ibge.gov.br (Global: 313^th place; English: 1,263^rd place)

ibtimes.com (Global: 911^th place; English: 628^th place)

kemenag.go.id (Global: 9,597^th place; English: low place)

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

pewforum.org (Global: 926^th place; English: 945^th place)

pewresearch.org (Global: 1,418^th place; English: 966^th place)

ssb.no (Global: 1,159^th place; English: 1,457^th place)

stat.fi (Global: 1,881^st place; English: 2,865^th place)

statcan.gc.ca (Global: 404^th place; English: 305^th place)

statista.com (Global: 776^th place; English: 844^th place)

statistics.gov.uk (Global: 1,258^th place; English: 914^th place)

stats.govt.nz (Global: 1,961^st place; English: 1,303^rd place)

time.com (Global: 61^st place; English: 54^th place)

un.org (Global: 97^th place; English: 164^th place)

usatoday.com (Global: 41^st place; English: 34^th place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)