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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.
A survey conducted by the Demographic and Health Surveys program in 2013–2014 indicated that Christians constituted 93.7% of the population (Catholics 29.7%, Protestants 26.8%, and other Christians 37.2%). An indigenous religion, Kimbanguism, was practiced by 2.8% of the population, while Muslims make up 1.2%. [22]
The demonym Congolese can also refer to people from the Republic of Congo, of whom there are fewer living in the UK. In the 2021 census, 29,009 people in England were recorded as being born in the DRC, as well as 430 in Wales, [1] and 52 in Northern Ireland. [2] The census in Scotland was delayed by a year until 2022. [3]
Even though the religion was temporarily banned, [23] and the country torn by wars, the religion grew so that in 2003 there were some 541 assemblies. [21] The Association of Religion Data Archives estimated that the DRC had the fifth highest population of BaháΚΌís in 2010, with some 283,000 adherents. [24]
Christianity is the majority religion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is professed by a majority of the population. According to the 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom, an estimated 48.1% of the population are Protestant (including evangelical Christians and the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth) and 47.3% are Catholic ...
However many people in the country many of whom are Muslim are not native-born and not included in government statistics. [2] According to the CIA World Factbook, in 2007 the people of the Republic of the Congo were largely a mix of Catholics (33.1%), Awakening/Revival churches (22.3%), Protestants (19.9%), and none (11.3%).
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Population of the Republic of the Congo, Data of FAO, 2005. According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [2] [3] the total population was 5,835,806 in 2021, compared to only 808 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 40.6%, 55.7% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3.7% was 65 years or ...