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Religions in Chad by region; Islam (green: mostly, light green: plurality), Christianity and traditional religions (blue: mostly, light blue: plurality). Christianity arrived in Chad with the French, at the end of the 19th century. [5] Among Chadian Christians, 22.8% profess to be Catholic and 17.9% profess to be Protestant.
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
The religion of the spouse or partner was also asked. If the initial answer was "Protestant" or "Christian" further questions were asked to probe which particular denomination. About one third of the sample was asked more detailed demographic questions. Religious Self-Identification of the US Adult Population: 1990, 2001, 2008 [115]
Chad has several regions: the Sahara desert in the north, an arid zone in the centre known as the Sahel and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. [8] It is home to over 200 different ethnic and ...
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.
Christianity in Chad arrived more recently than other religions, with the arrival of Europeans. [1] Its followers are divided into Roman Catholics and Protestants (including several denominations) and collectively represent 45% of the country's population.
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 country has an area of 496,000 square miles (1,280,000 km 2) and a population of 18,278,568 according to the UN estimate for 2023.. According to estimates in 2014–15, 52.1% of the population is Muslim (mainly Sufi Tijaniyah), 23.9% is Protestant, 20% is Roman Catholic, 0.3% is animist, 0.2% are 'other Christian', 2.8% have no religion, and 0.7% did not specify what their beliefs were.