Religion in El Salvador
Religion in El Salvador (2013)[1]
agnostic/atheist/none (10%)
Other (4%)
unknown (1%)
El Salvador's approximately 6.1 million inhabitants (July 2013) are mostly Christian.[2] Evangelicals are growing rapidly.[3]
Religious affiliation
There is some debate about percentages, the Institute of Public Opinion of the University of Central America in May 2013 found 51% of the population as Roman Catholics, and 33% as Protestant, 14% as not having a religion and the remainder (less than 2%) being Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishnas, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and members of indigenous religions.[2] However Latinobarómetro in 2013 found 54% were Catholic, 31% Protestant, 10% atheist/agnostic/not religious, 4% other religions, and 1% did not answer.[1] It also found in 1996 that 67% of the population considered themselves Catholic and 15% Protestant.[1]
Denominations
Mision Cristiana Elim Internacional is a large pentecostal denomination started in El Salvador. It claims that its main church in San Salvador has 120,000 attending.[5] The Assemblies of God claim 285,226 members (2007).[6]
The Mormons claim 120,317 people in 164 congregations and 1 temple (2015)[7] which if correct would be just under 2% of the population. An IUDOP study in 2009 found that Mormons were 2% of the Protestants they surveyed or about .8% of the total population.[4] They started evangelizing in El Salvador in 1951.[7]
The Anglican Church in El Salvador (a diocese of the province of the Anglican Church in Central America) claims 6,000 members in 18 congregations.[8] The Baptist Association of El Salvador claims 4,427 members[9] and the Salvadorean Lutheran Synod about 15,000 in 68 congregations,[10]
Irreligion
Year | % of Salvadoran Population[11] | Pop of Salvadoran Population |
1995 | 9 |
9 | 517,320 |
1996 | 13 |
13 | 754,910 |
1998 | 18 |
18 | 1,061,100 |
2000 | 16 |
16 | 953,444 |
2001 | 13 |
13 | 778,050 |
2005 | 17 |
17 | 1,032,410 |
2007 | 14 |
14 | 857,222 |
2009 | 19 |
19 | 1,174,770 |
2010 | 28 |
28 | 1,741,040 |
2011 | 14 |
14 | 875,840 |
2012 | 18 |
18 | 1,133,460 |
2015 | 17 |
17 | 1,092,930 |
See also
References
Further reading
- Stephen Offutt, New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2015) focuses on El Salvador and South Africa. online review
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