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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: KAZAKHSTAN

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 13,110,000
2000: 16,223,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 2,450,000; 18.7%
2000: 2,709,980; 16.7%

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

Buddhists: [1970] 10,000; 0.1%
__________     [2000] 17,021; 0.1%
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] %
_____________     [2000] 27,808; 0.2%
Jews: [1970] 12,000; 0.1%
_____   [2000] 13,939; 0.1%
Muslims: [1970] 3,520,000; 26.9%
________  [2000] 6,920,715; 42.7%

Atheists: [1970] 3,000,000; 22.9%
___________[2000] 1,771,219; 10.9%
Nonreligious: [1970] 4,118,000; 31.4%
_________________[2000] 4,758,637; 29.3%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 66,470; 0.5%
___________________________   [2000] 118,177; 0.7%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 2,383,530; 18.2%
__________________________ [2000] 2,591,803; 16.0%

Orthodox: [1970] 1,986,700; 15.2%
____________ [2000] 1,401,803; 8.6%
Protestants: [1970] 278,330; 2.1%
______________ [2000] 25,000; 0.2%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 20,000; 0.2%
_______________ [2000] 510,000; 3.1%
Independents: [1970] 97,500; 0.7%
____________[2000] 650,000; 4.0%
Marginal Christians: [1970] 1,000; 0%
_______________ [2000] 5,000; 0%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 46,000; 0.4%
__________ [2000] 10,000; 0.1%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 5,000; 0%
______________________ [2000] 82,000; 0.5%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 1,180,000; 9.0%
_______________________ [2000] 1,443,467; 8.9%