1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 53,821,850
2000: 57,298,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 47,596,800; 88.4%
2000: 47,010,426; 82.1%

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

Bahaís: [1970] 4,200; 0.0%
________  [2000] 5,681; 0.0%
Buddhists: [1970] 2,000; 0.0%
__________     [2000] 4,320; 0.0%
Confucianists: [1970] %
________________  [2000] %
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 0; 0.0%
__________________      [2000] 2,005; 0.0%
Folk-religionists: [1970] 0; 0.0%
__________________    [2000] 43,833; 0.1%
Hindus: [1970] 0; 0.0%
_______    [2000] 2,429; 0.0%
Jains: [1970] %
______  [2000] %
Jews: [1970] 37,000; 0.1%
_____   [2000] 33,640; 0.1%
Muslims: [1970] 43,000; 0.1%
________     [2000] 673,771; 1.2%
New-Religionists: [1970] 0; 0.0%
____________________   [2000] 12,041; 0.0%
Shintoists: [1970] %
____________  [2000] %
Sikhs: [1970] %
_______ [2000] %
Spiritists: [1970] %
___________  [2000] %
Taoists: [1970] %
__________[2000] %
Zoroastrians: [1970] %
_______________  [2000] %

Other Religionists: [1970] 10,000; 0.0%
__________________       [2000] 9,488; 0.0%

Atheists: [1970] 1,179,000; 2.2%
___________[2000] 1,965,060; 3.4%
Nonreligious: [1970] 4,950,000; 9.2%
_________________[2000] 7,535,191; 13.2%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 96,800; 0.2%
___________________________   [2000] 88,286; 0.2%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 47,500,000; 88.3%
__________________________ [2000] 46,922,140; 81.9%
Anglicans: [1970] 10,000; 0.0%
_____________ [2000] 10,600; 0.0%
Orthodox: [1970] 28,000; 0.1%
____________ [2000] 91,000; 0.2%
Protestants: [1970] 405,143; 0.8%
______________ [2000] 446,000; 0.8%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 50,697,128; 94.2%
______________________ [2000] 55,680,000; 97.2%
Independents: [1970] 62,963; 0.1%
_________________ [2000] 415,000; 0.7%
Marginal Christians: [1970] 85,307; 0.2%
_________________________ [2000] 420,000; 0.7%
Doubly-affiliated: [1970] -243,541; -0.5%
_____________________ [2000] -422,160; -0.7%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 345,000; 0.6%
________________ [2000] 340,000; 0.6%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 377,000; 0.7%
__________________________________ [2000] 4,180,000; 7.3%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 16,146,000; 30.0%
____________________________________ [2000] 24,220,748; 42.3%

1.31 PERCENT OF MEMBERS REGULARLY ATTENDING WORSHIP
SERVICES
6% of baptized Catholics (which make up 99% of the population) take communion
every Sunday.

1.32 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF DENOMINATIONS IN THE
NATION

1.33 ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANS (% of Christians)
Italian: 41.4%
Lombard: 15.3%
Neapolitan-Calabrian: 12.6%
Sicillian: 8.4%
Piedmontese: 5.3%