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There are two major religions in Eritrea: Christianity (four denominations) and Islam (only the Sunni school).However, the number of adherents is subject to debate. In the 2010 Eritrea Population and Health Survey, conducted by the Eritrean National Statistics Office and the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, 61.4% of all survey respondents reported being Christian (56.3% ...
Sources disagree as to the current population of Eritrea, with some proposing numbers as low as 3.6 million [1] and others as high as 6.7 million. [2] Eritrea has never conducted an official government census. [3] Population, fertility rate and net reproduction rate, United Nations estimates. The nation has nine recognized ethnic groups.
The two main religions followed in Eritrea are Christianity and Islam. However, the number of adherents of each faith is subject to debate. According to the Pew Research Center, as of 2020, 62.9% of the population of Eritrea adhered to Christianity, 36.6% followed Islam, and 0.4% practiced traditional African religions.
Eritrea has two dominant religions, Christianity and Islam. Eritrea as a country and the Eritrean community are multi-religious; Eritrea has two dominant religions: Christianity and Islam, the various estimates place Christianity (all denominations) as the religion of between 47% and 63% of the population of Eritrea.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Reliable data on religious demography is difficult to obtain because an official nationwide census has not been conducted in decades. U.S. government estimates indicate a population of approximately 30.4 million, with Sunni Muslims comprising 80% of the population, Shia Muslims making up about 19%, and other religious groups comprising less than 1%.
The presence of many identical place names in the areas around Lasta and Bogos in central Eritrea further alludes to some historical connection between the two groups. According to local oral tradition, the Bilen lived on the Eritrean plateau from Lasta around the 6th or 7th century when Queen Ben Hammawiya invaded the Lasta province from the ...
The World Religion Database noted that in 2020, 47% of the population of Eritrea were Christian; [1] almost 4% are Protestant (mainly P'ent'ay Evangelicalists). The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea is one of the four officially recognized religious institutions in Eritrea.