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STATISTICS

Catholic Church ; 186 miUions, or 30. 1 per cent are r'rotestants; 127 J^^ millions, or 20-6 per cent, Greek Orthodox; the rest are Oriental Schismatics or belong o sects not separately mentioned in the table —

ism and Mohammedanism, of all religious denomina- tions, approach nearest to Catholicism: they each have more than 200 millions of followers. But their ex- tension is not so universal as that of Catholicism;

Table VII. — America.

COCNTRIEB.

Catholica.

Protestants.

Jews.

Heathens.

Others and Undenom- inational.

3,017,231

14,347,027

13,533.013

4,353,000

1,824,897

1,000,000

1,488,000

600,000

303,928

400,000

77,539

2,640,000

4,300,000

1,270,000

4,500,000

2.150,000

3,800,000

6,100.000

1,080.000

580,000

20.250,000

4.332,769 66,000.000 51,795 15.000 20,000 7

60.000

1,777,000

8,972

50,000 500,000

120,060 12,000

7

5.500.000

13,219

4,000

160,000

12,000

300,000

986,000

2,000

600.000 18,000 12,000

80,000

63.3.i9 4,000 7

2,000 400

12,000

30,000 130,000 300,000 100,000 50,000 50,000

J

10,000

iolh-ia. .

36,600 80,000 25.000 1.000 250.000

1,000

50,000 600,000

3,000

12.000

87,614,635

70,868,923

1.858.372

2,622,000

6,089,219

lO Inclusive of British Honduras and British Guiana.

Laskolniks, Janaonists, Old Catholics etc. The Loman Catholic Church alone compri.ses almost one- fth of mankind, and has more followers than any ther form of religion. Buddhism, Ancestor-worship,

locally and cthnographically they are much more limited. In Table VIII the Jews probably appear more numerous than they are in reality, as the great emigration from Russia could not be determined

Table VIII. — Stnopbis of Tables III to VII. (A) Christians.

■ Parts of the World.

Catholics.

Protestants.

Greek

Russian

(Orthodox)

Oriental Schismatics.

Total

of

Christians.

188,577,058

12,661,498

1,244,0,55

2,689,839

87,614,635

106,200,177 2,354,817 3,997,047 2.634,660 70,868.923

113,735,718 13,806,000

232,000 2,919,000

410,826,865



32,272.905

5,823.989

11,148,488

merica

158,483 558

292,787,085

186.055,624

127.541.718

8.974,989

617,972,918

(B) Non-Christians.

'arts of the World.

Jews.

Moham- medans.

Brahmins.

Buddhists.

Adherents of

Ancestor- Worship and Confu- cianism.

Taoists

and

Shintoists.

Fetish-Wor- shippers and other Heathens.

Others

and Unde- nomina- tional.

9,795,877 745,000 16.867 573,635

1.858,372

8,648,.395

155,100.000

20,000

43,299.445

1 050 061

■

210,000,000

125,000,000 70,000

240,000,000

49,000,000

16,870.000 1,112,000

71,000,000 2,622,000

174,000

100,000

200,000

6 089,219

Totals

12,989.751

207,067,840

210,100,000

125,270,000

240,000,000

49,000,000

91,604,000

7,313,280

^nd Confucianism, which, taken toget^ier, would in- Ippd possess a Larger number of adherents, are not lisfinrt religious bodies, but forms of religion and ystems of religious customs all of which, as mentioned ibove, are at times obsen'ed by the same individual. iVith reference to the number of adherents, Brahmin-

numerically for want of reliable official statistics, while in the most recent records from countries to which they migrate, the .lews seem to be included. Nevertheless the total number of Jews can scarcely fail to reach 12 millions. (See also Migration: Immigration to the United Slates.) The remaining