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STATISTICS
number of communicants having almost doubled.
Further, the totals of the official Cathohc Directory
(for 1909: 14,347,027; for 1910: 14,618,761) are by
far too low. For, although the proportion of non-
communicants is much smaller among CathoUcs than
Number of Communicants, United States
In 1910. In 1S90.
Catholics 12,321,746 6,257,871
Methodists 6,596,168 4,589,284
Baptists 5,774,066 3,717,969
Lutherans 2,243,486 1,231,072
Presbyterians 1,920,765 1,278,362
Episcopalians 938,390 540,509
Reformed 448,190 309,458
Mormons 400,650 166,125
United Brethren 303,319 225,281
Jews 143,000 130,496
Friends 123,718 107,208
Dunkard Brethren 122,847 73,795
Adventists 95,646 60,491
among Protestants, yet, even with Catholics, the number of communicants was, up to 1910, hardly more than two-thirds of the total. Moreover, the statistics furnished by the parochial clergy for Wilt- zius' Directory can, from the nature of the case,
estant" in the wider sense explained above (Chris-
tians who are neither Catholics nor connected with
the Greek or Oriental schismatical Churches), we
have put down the number as 65 millions. The num-
ber of Jews in full membei-ship given by Carroll is
evidently far too low, nor is it clear what Carroll
understands by this term in the case of Jews. We
have therefore given preference to the number of
"The Jewish Year Book" for 1910 (1,777,000).
In Southern and Central America the determina- tion of religious profession is easier, as the entire population may be regarded as Catholic, making al- lowance for the few Protestants and the uncivilized Indians not included in the census. The same may be said of Cuba, Porto Rico, Haiti, San Domingo, and the French West Indies, while in the British, Danish, and Dutch colonies there are partly official, partly ecclesiastical data. In Mexico, too, a census of religions was taken by the Government in 1901.
Accoriling to the synopsis presented in Table VIII, the entire population of the Earth at present (i. e. the average for the years 1906-08) amounts to about 1561 millions. The various figures show a notable difference when compared with the previous accounts of Krose and Zeller-Juraschek. In the first place, the latest figures are considerably higher, at least as far as the Christian denominations are con-
Table VI. — Afric.\
Egypt
Abyssinia
Tripoli
Algeria and Tunis
Morocco
Liberia
French North and West Africa.
Other French Possessions
Spanish Possei»sions {•)
Portuguese Possessions (3)
Belgian Congo
German Pos,ses3ions
British North and West Africa . .
British South Africa. .
Other British Possessions
Italian Possessions
(1)100,257
3,000
6,100
663,000
10,000
53,898
365,000
434,000
<) 588,000
34,475
55,004
21,829
90.587
267,689
17,000
?
1,000
22,000
7,000
344,000
4,000
26,000
47,223
133,000
1,911,000
101,991
38,635
200,000
10.000 125.000 150,000
10,269,445
300,000
1,000,000
5,900,000
7,000,000
500,000
3,000.000
300,000
280.000
1,500,000
7
1,000,000
7,000,000
.50,000
5,000.000
200.000
Fetish-wor-
shippers
and
other
Heathens.
1,000,000
10,000.000
2,000,000
? 5,000,000 19,000,000 13,000,000 9,000,000 6.700.000 5,000.000 300,000
Africa 2,689,839 2,634,660 5,823,989 573,635 43,299,445 71,000,000
(1) Inclusive of United Oriental Catholics, who were put down separately in the official census of 1907.
(2) Inclusive of Canary Islands. (*) Inclusive of Madeira.
(*) With regard to the Catholics of Angola the data vary considerably; we have taken the lowest estimate, 250,000.
comprise only those Catholics who have for some
time resided in a parish and are known to the clergj-;
such records, therefore, fall far short of the reality,
on account of the great Catholic immigration and
the great fluctuation in the population. Hence the
present writer believes that, of the 53^ millions
whose denomination is marked in our tables as
unknown, the majority are Catholics. In those
tables, however, Wiltzius' figures for 1909 have been
used in default of any accurate data for another
estimate.
The total number of Protestant communicants in the United St.ates, according to Carroll, is 21,663,248. .■\s, on the avor.ago, there is one communicant to everv 2-6 inhal)itants, this would mean at most .56 millions of Protestants, and it is quite clear from Carroll's statistics that there are millions in the United States unconnected with any denomination, a. fact which ought to be taken into consideration in calculating the total number of adherents from the number of communicants. Taking, however, the term "Prot-
cerned. The reason of this is that more than a decade
has passed since the last calculations. Considering
the high birth-rate of the Christian nations, an increase
of 10 to 15 per cent is not improbable. Besides, the
recent and more accurate census in Southern and Cen-
tral America brought in far higher figures than the
older and rougher estimates. As these territories are
almost exclusively Catholic, it is clear that the in-
crease of Catholics apparently surpasses that of the
Protestants. On the other hand, the cohimn of
Fetish-worshippers and other pagans of lower civili-
zation shows a ver>- considerable decrease, which is
ex-plained by the recent estimate of the population of
Central .\frica. While in 1898 Juraschek supposed
thr i)ojiulationof .\frica to be 178 millions, in 1908 he
reikoncd the poptilation !vs 129 millions. Tims in
these regions religious statistics are subject to great
fluctuations. The total number of Christians amount
to 618 millions, or 39t) per cent, of the entire popula-
tion of the earth. Of the Christians, not quite one-
half — 292 ?4 millions, or 47-4 per cent — belong to the
