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t. e. Christianity is the dominant religion in South Africa, with 85.3% of the population in 2022 professing to be Christian. No single denomination predominates, with mainstream Protestant churches, Pentecostal churches, African initiated churches, and the Catholic Church all having significant numbers of adherents.
According to the 2022 census, the population of South Africa is about 62 million people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. [1] The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent census held; the next will be in 2032. [4] In 2011, Statistics South Africa counted 2.1 million foreigners in total. [5]
Christianity by country. Christianity is the dominant religion in South Africa, with almost 80% of the population in 2001 professing to be Christian. No single denomination predominates, with mainstream Protestant churches, Pentecostal churches, African initiated churches, and the Catholic Church all having significant numbers of adherents.
Buddhism. 6.6%. Folk religions. 5.6%. Sikhism. 0.3%. Other religions. 1.2%. The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world.
About half of African Buddhists are now living in South Africa, while Mauritius has the highest Buddhist percentage in the continent, between 1.5% [46] to 2% [47] of the total population. Other religions
In 2020, there were nearly 658 million Christians in Africa, with 760 million expected by 2025, [ 75] surpassing earlier estimates of 630 to 700 million for 2025. [ 76] In 2020, Christians formed 49% of the continent's population, with Muslims forming 42%. [ 77]
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [ 10] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Islam by country. South Africa is a Christian majority nation with Islam being a minority religion, practised by roughly 1.6% of the total population. [4] Islam in South Africa has grown in three different phases. The first phase brought the earliest Muslims as part of the involuntary migration of slaves, artisans, political prisoners, and ...