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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: TIMOR

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 604,500
2000: 885,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 211,000; 34.9%
2000: 815,959; 92.2%

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

Bahaís: [1970] 200; 0.0%
________  [2000] 1,190; 0.1%
Buddhists: [1970] 6,000; 1.0%
__________     [2000] 1,681; 0.2%
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 383,800; 63.5%
_____________     [2000] 26,435; 3.0%
Folk-religionists: [1970] 3,000; 0.5%
_________________ [2000] 1,415; 0.2%
Hindus: [1970] 0; 0.0%
_______    [2000] 1,061; 0.1%

Muslims: [1970] 1,000; 0.2%
________     [2000] 28,339; 3.2%
New-Religionists: [1970] 0; 0.0%
____________________   [2000] 5,042; 0.6%

Nonreligious: [1970] 0; 0.0%
_________________[2000] 3,418; 0.4%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 294; 0.1%
___________________________   [2000] 568; 0.1%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 210,706; 34.9%
__________________________ [2000] 815,391; 92.1%

Protestants: [1970] 4,000; 0.7%
______________ [2000] 47,000; 5.3%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 206,706; 34.2%
______________________ [2000] 796,000; 89.9%

Doubly-affiliated: [1970] 0; 0.0%
_____________________ [2000] -27,609; -3.1%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 2,400; 0.4%
________________ [2000] 4,800; 0.5%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 2,100; 0.4%
__________________________________ [2000] 46,200; 5.2%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 36,270; 6.0%
____________________________________ [2000] 39,435; 4.5%