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CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Patte, General Editor
Editorial Board | Preparing Contextual, Conceptual-Theological and Historical, and Methodological Entries | CDC@vanderbilt.edu

NATION: BURUNDI

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population:
1970: 3,513,500
2000: 6,695,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 2,579,000 [73.4%]
2000: 6,137,639 [91.7%]

1.2 RELIGIOUS MAKE-UP OF THE REST OF THE POPULATION:

Bahaís: [1970] 1,600 [0.1%]
________  [2000] 5,414 [0.1%]
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 903,000 [25.7%]
__________________      [2000] 450,210 [6.7%]

Muslims: [1970] 30,000 [0.9%]
________     [2000] 92,274 [1.4%]

Nonreligious: [1970] %
_________________[2000] 3,840 [0.1%]

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 277,300 [7.9%]
___________________________   [2000] 984,798 [14.7%]
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 2,301,700 [65.5%]
__________________________ [2000] 5,152,841 [77.0 %]
Anglicans: [1970] 45,000 [1.3%]
_____________ [2000] 500,000 [7.5%]

Protestants: [1970] 146,600 [4.2%]
______________ [2000] 800,000 [12.0 %]
Roman Catholics: [1970] 2,107,500 [60.0%]
______________________ [2000] 3,827,541 [57.2%]
Independents: [1970] %
_________________ [2000] 23,000 [0.3%]

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 45,000 [1.3%]
________________ [2000] 850,000 [12.7%]
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 105,000 [3.0%]
__________________________________ [2000] 775,000 [11.6%]
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 246,000 [7.0%]
____________________________________ [2000] 1,144,771 [17.1%]