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Population and Religions of the Globe

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 17, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 1.

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Population and Religions of the Globe

Protestants, 59,000,000; Romanists, 139,000,000; Greek Church, 62,000,000; Mahometans, 96,000,000; Brahminists, 120,000,000; Buddhists, 320,000,000. All other systems of Paganism, 468,000,000. Jews, 6,000,000. Total, 1,272,000,000. Protestants are about 1 in 2½ of the population; Romanists 1 in 9; Protestants, Romanists, and Greeks together, 1 in 5. These figures are from the Journal of Man, 1872.