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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:   VANUATU

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 87,400
2000: 190,400
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 80,000; 91.6%
2000: 177,122; 93.0%

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

Bahaís: [1970] 100; 0.1%
--------  [2000] 5,418; 2.9%
Buddhists: [1970] 70; 0.1%
----------     [2000] 374; 0.2%
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] 7,030; 8.1%
------------------      [2000] 6,573; 3.5%
New-Religionists: [1970] 0; 0.0%
--------------------   [2000] 87; 0.1%
Nonreligious: [1970] 200; 0.2%
-----------------[2000] 763; 0.4%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 8,291; 9.5%
---------------------------   [2000] 7,068; 3.7%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 71,709; 82.1%
-------------------------- [2000] 170,054; 89.3%
Anglicans: [1970] 10,000; 11.5%
------------- [2000] 34,500; 18.2%
Protestants: [1970] 37,000; 42.4%
-------------- [2000] 102,254; 53.7%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 13,169; 15.1%
---------------------- [2000] 29,400; 15.5%
Independents: [1970] 11,500; 13.2%
----------------- [2000] 16,500; 8.7%
Marginal Christians: [1970] 40; 0.1%
------------------------- [2000] 1,400; 0.7%
Doubly-affiliated: [1970] 0; 0.0%
--------------------- [2000] 014,000; -7.4%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 13,000; 14.9%
---------------- [2000] 53,300; 28.1%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 1,800; 2.1%
---------------------------------- [2000] 47,200; 24.8%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 6,100; 7.0%
------------------------------------ [2000] 28,820; 15.2%