Talk:Protestantism by country
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Ridwan Gazi 11:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC)The percentage population of China is Totally wrongRidwan Gazi 11:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Mozambique is shown twice, with different numbers, on the Top 60 list, on the right side. --84.154.68.197 18:22, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- One of those "Mozambiques" should have been "Venezuala", I have corrected it. -BSveen 21:05, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The graph is wrong
The percentages on the graph do not match with the text According to the text 55% of the population of US is protestant. According to the red color on the leftmost graph the percentage is somewhere between 1% and 10%. The rightmost graph shows a number between 11% and 20%. Most of the other percentages are also wrong. Either the graph should be deleted or the the text should be corrected.
- The map is indeed wrong, as it shows Ethiopia has having 11-20 million Protestants, whereas the text (correct, according to the 1994 census) says that 10.1% of Ethiopians, or about 7.3 million (applying the percentage to today's population) people are protestant, which would make Ethiopia's Pcolor on the map red. It's listed as purple (11-20 million), however.
- Yom 02:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anglicans
As discussed elsewhere, the Anglican Church officially considers itself to be a Catholic church separated from Rome by the excommunication of Elizabeth the first, not a protestant church. It has many protestant members but there is no way you can count the whole of it as protestant --BozMo|talk 09:48, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- The Anglican Church is a Protestant body. [1]. I'm afraid that you are misunderstanding what they mean when they say "catholic". They are refering to the word catholic as it is very seldom used in the vernacular, i.e. catholic as in part of the "universal Christian Church", not Catholic as in the church headed by the pope in Rome... BSveen 20:02, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Several European countries
The figures for Germany, UK and other countries seem rather high. In the cases of Italy and Russia the figures seem to refer to a respectively large church rather than to Protestantism at large. Sarcelles 17:21, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
- Yes the UK figure does seem high, but the Germany figure is ok, recent polling data in Germany determined that 36% of Germans self-identify as Protestants[2]. But you're right about the UK numbers being too high, I invite you to find a better UK figure to replace the current one. BSveen 18:10, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
- Religion in the United Kingdom has about 70 % Christians from the last census. Supposing 10 % Catholic baptisms overall might give about 11 percent Catholics among the Christians. So I would be at about 63.3 % non-Catholic Christians. 60 % maybe would seem appropriate.
Sarcelles 09:57, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Even 60% seems to overstate Protestants as against Catholics. The 70% figure includes large numbers of extremely nominal Christians who do not know whether they are Protestants or Catholics. Also some members of the C of E consider themselves more Catholic than Protestant. Even so it is obviously wrong to retain the 70% figure in the bottom list while giving 60% above. I will try to correct it. Dec 2005 (LSC)
The figures for Slovenia are also wrong. According to the census of 2002 the number of protestants is 16135 (of which 14736 lutheran protestants and 1399 other protestants),that is roughly 0.8%. The number given by the lutheran protestant church of slovenia is 18000, but their figures tend to be overestimated as the numbers are simply an approximation by a non-independent researcher.
