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Christians[edit]

Country/territory Rank % Christian Pop. Largest denom. % in largest denom. Year Cit.
 Vatican City 1 100.0 764 Catholic 100.0 2024 [1]
 East Timor 3 99.5 1,340,513 Catholic 97.6 2016 [2][3]
 Samoa 97.9 205,557 Protestant 54.9
 Armenia 98.5 Armenian Apostolic Church 96.0
 American Samoa 98.3 Protestant
 Malta 7 98.1 Catholic
 Venezuela 8 98.0 Catholic
 Greece 9 98.0 Eastern Orthodox
 Marshall Islands 10 97.2 Protestant 97.2
 Tonga 11 97.2 Protestant
 San Marino 12 97.0 Catholic
 Paraguay 13 96.9 Catholic
 El Salvador 14 96.4% Catholic
 Greenland 15 56,583 96.1 Church of Greenland 93 [4]
 Faroe Islands 15 54,738 95.4 Church of the Faroe Islands 77.0
 Kiribati 15 96.0% Protestant 96.0%[5]
 Federated States of Micronesia 16 ~96.0% Protestant ~96.0%[6]
 Barbados 17 95.1% Protestant 95.1%[7]
 Papua New Guinea 18 94.8% Protestant 94.8%[8][better source needed]
 Mexico 19 94.6% Roman Catholic 94.6%
 Peru 20 94.51% Roman Catholic 94.51%[9]
 Romania 21 93.0% Eastern Orthodox 93.0%[10]
 Poland 22 92.9% Roman Catholic 92.9%[11]
 Croatia 23 91.1% Roman Catholic 91.1%[12]
 Philippines 24 90.0% Roman Catholic 90.0%

Lutheran[edit]

Lutheranism – 70–90 million[edit]
Lutheranism by country

The number of adherents in the Lutheran denomination totals to 70-90 million persons (the Lutheran World Federation reports 77 million, and is the sixth largest communion),[13] being represented in the following churches:[14][15]

Church Country/territory Size (millions) Cit.
Protestant Church in Germany  Germany 19.2 [16]
Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus  Ethiopia 10.4 [17]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania  Tanzania 7.9 [18]
Church of Sweden  Sweden 5.6 [19][20]
United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India  India 4.5 [21]
Church of Denmark  Denmark 4.3 [22][23]
Batak Christian Protestant Church  Indonesia 4.1 [24]
Malagasy Lutheran Church  Madagascar 4.0 [25]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland  Finland 3.8 [26][27]
Church of Norway  Norway 3.7 [28][29]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America  United States 3.5 [30][31]
The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria  Nigeria 2.2 [32]
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod  United States 1.8 [33]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea  Papua New Guinea 1.8 [34]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia  Namibia 0.85 [35]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa  South Africa 0.6 [36]
Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil  Brazil 0.63 [37][38]
The Protestant Christian Church  Indonesia 0.5 [24]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia  Namibia 0.4 [35]
Evangelical Free Church of America  United States 0.4 [39]
The Indonesian Christian Church  Indonesia 0.3 [24]
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ Worldwide 0.3 [40]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon  Cameroon 0.3 [41]
Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria  Austria 0.3 [42]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe  Zimbabwe 0.3 [43]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia  Latvia 0.3 [44]
Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia  Indonesia 0.3 [24]
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod  United States 0.3 [45]
Church of Iceland  Iceland 0.2 [46]
Simalungun Protestant Christian Church  Indonesia 0.2 [24]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil  Brazil 0.2 [47]
Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine  France 0.2 [48]
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia  Slovakia 0.2 [49]
Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary  Hungary 0.2 [50]
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church  Estonia 0.2 [51]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania  Romania 0.2 [52]
Laestadianism (various churches) Worldwide 0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya  Kenya 0.1 [53]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada  Canada 0.1 [54]
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland  Poland 0.06 [55]
Church of the Faroe Islands  Faroe Islands 0.04 [56]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong  Hong Kong 0.02
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