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STATISTICS
paganism; yet the latter remains the religion of the tained only the number of communicants (i. e., ac-
majority. A more accurate determination of the cording to English and American usage, partakers of
number of Mohammedans and pagans in Africa is not the Lord's Supper, or full members), not the total
possible, as the population has not yet been ascer- number of adherents to the different denominations,
tained in many districts of the interior. These data, however, do not carry us very far for the
America (see Table VII) roughly counts 169 mil- purposes of general statistics of religions. The pro-
lions of inhabitants. Of these more than half portion of com m unicants to non-communicants differs
Table IV.— Asia.
Countries.
Catholics.
Protes-
tants.
Greek
Orthodox.
Total
of
Christians
Jews.
Moham-
medans.
Brahmins.
Buddhists.
Adherents
of Con-
fucianism
and Ancestor Worship.
Taoists
and
Shinto ists.
Other
Heathens.
Persia, Afghanistan, Baluc-
histan, and Independent
1 629,797
112,000
12,3.50,000
931,357
33,267
1,210.054
68,016
65.741
- 56,214
7,205,052
/ 80,000
98.000 1,195,000
- 3,610,000
40.000
560.000
125.000 18,000
15.000.000
130.00.000
12.100.000 64,000,000
2.000,000
1,000,000
12,000.000
183,000
Russian Possessions and
114 087 000
350,000
12,220,000
British Possessions... . . I
§3,982,000
931,357
42,767
1,495,000
181,515
180,000
528,214
7,235,052
208,000,000
13,500,000
Portuguese Possessions.. )
9,500
f285,000
tll3,499
71,818
472,000
30,000
China with Dependencies . .
■ 2,666
20,000.000
110,000,000
240,000,000
32,000,000
J
23,000
17,000,000
Dutrh P ifSf>siiona
31.000,000
T
500,000
4.000.000
300,000
Philinninps
12,661,498
2.354,817
13,806,000
32,272.905
745,000
155.100.000
1
210,000,000 125,000,000
240,000,000
49,000,000
16.870,000
Qtals.
- Inclusive of 1.300,000 Armenians and other Schismatic Orientals,
t Inclusive of 512.000 Raskolniks and 1.365.000 Armenians and other Schismatic Ori j Inciusive of the French Possessions in India. § Inclusive of 254.000 schismatic Thomas-Christians. 1 Inclusive of 12,114,000 adherents to ancient Indian Cults.
^ These numbers are taken over from the " Abriss der Geschichte der protestantischen Missionen," by Wameck, 9th ed., and ! founded on estimates which probably are much too high. ♦♦ Inclusive of North-Borneo.
(87,614,635, or 51-8 per cent) are Catholics; 70,868,923
(41-9 per cent) Protestants. In all 93-7 per cent are
Christians. The number of Jews, very small up to a
few decades ago, has increased considerably of late on
account of the immigration from Russia. There are
nearly 2 millions at present. The pagan Indians and
widely in the various denominations. Calculation of
membership in the denominations from these data re-
sults only in vague estimates of very doubtful value.
Still, as Carroll's list is of some interest, his figures for
the more important denominations are given below
(table: "Number of Commimicants, United States")
Table V.
AtJSTRAUA AND OCEANIA.
Countries.
Catholics.
Protestants.
Jews.
Moham-
medans.
Bud-
dhists.
Fetich wor-
shippers
and other
Heathens.
Others
and un-
denom-
inational.
951,429
127,227
35,000
53,000
3.000
27,399
47.000
3,013,000
719,087
147,500
21,000
22,000
44,460
30,000
15,000
1,867
20.000
10,000
2,000
650.000
10,000
60,000
390,000
24 000
60,000
40,000
1,244,055
3,997,047
16,867
20.000
70,000
1,112,000
174,000
(0 Inclusive of British and German New Guinea. — Dutch New Guinea was included in the Dutch East Indies.
Negroes may be put down at from 214 to 2}^ millions;
in their case a more accurate estimate is out of the
question. The great variety of denominations in the
United States makes it very difficult to determine their
creeds; an official cen.sus of religions has never yet
been taken. The American .stati.stician. Dr. Carroll,
has tried to find a substitute by inquiries addres.sed to
the church authorities, but in this way he has ascer-
as they appear in "The Christian Advocate" for 26
January, 1911, omitting only the ordinal numbers in-
dicating the relative numerical importance of each
denomination. From this table it is evident that the
Catholic Church is by far the largest religious de-
nomination in the United States, and that, except-
ing the Mormons, no other body shows as high a
rate of increase within the last twenty years, the
