POPULATION
OF
Produced by
25 March 2008
|
TRADITION – FAMILY – DENOMINATION |
1970 |
% |
1980 |
% |
1991 |
% |
2000 |
% |
|
ROMAN CATHOLIC |
77,421 |
64.6% |
88,587 |
61.9% |
106,596 |
57.7 |
115,035 |
49.6 |
|
PROTESTANT |
33,385 |
27.8 |
50,727 |
34.9 |
63,360 |
34.3 |
83,096 |
35.8 |
|
Liturgical Tradition |
18,283 |
14.7 |
16,894 |
11.8 |
12,836 |
6.9 |
12,386 |
5.3 |
|
Anglican |
17,783 |
14.3 |
16,894 |
11.8 |
12,836 |
6.9 |
12,386 |
5.3 |
|
All Presbyterians (two
denominations) |
500 |
.4 |
? |
|
? |
|
? |
|
|
Free Church
or Separatist Tradition |
15,819 |
9.0 |
20,059 |
14.1 |
24,568 |
13.3 |
36,906 |
15.9 |
|
All Methodists |
10,700 |
8.9 |
8,632 |
6.0 |
7,805 |
4.2 |
8,024 |
3.5 |
|
Moravian |
13 |
.01 |
1,650 |
1.2 |
? |
|
? |
|
|
All Baptists |
826 |
.7 |
1,228 |
.9 |
272 |
0.1 |
8,077 |
3.5 |
|
Christian Brethren |
240 |
.2 |
? |
|
? |
|
? |
|
|
Church of the
Nazarene |
|
|
1,598 |
1.1 |
4,631 |
2.5 |
6.117 |
2.6 |
|
Mennonite (all groups) |
3,300 |
2.8 |
5,647 |
3.9 |
7,430 |
4.0 |
9,497 |
4.1 |
|
Other Christian (AMEZ, Nazarene, GMU, Salvation Army,
Christian Brethren, Moravian, etc., for some dates) |
740 |
.6 |
1,304 |
.9 |
4,600 |
2.5 |
9,749 |
4.2 |
|
Adventist |
2,519 |
2.1 |
4,201 |
3.0 |
7,594 |
4.1 |
12,160 |
5.2 |
|
Pentecostal
Tradition (all groups) |
783 |
.6 |
4,342 |
3.1 |
11,660 |
6.3 |
17,189 |
7.4 |
|
Pentecostal (partial statistics) |
389 |
.3 |
3,237 |
2.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
414 |
.3 |
1,105 |
.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL
OTHER, NOT STATED AND NONE |
9,129 |
7.6 |
12,207 |
4.2 |
17,364 |
9.4 |
33,888 |
14.6 |
|
OTHER
RELIGIONS (included
under NOT STATED below in 1970) |
|
|
3,342 |
1.2 |
6,316 |
3.4 |
10,677 |
4.6 |
|
Bahai |
|
|
|
|
268 |
|
205 |
|
|
Chinese religions (Ancestor Worship, Buddhism,
Taoism) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eastern Orthodox (Middle Easterners) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Garífuna
religion (Garínagu) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hinduism (East Indians) |
|
|
106 |
.1 |
? |
|
367 |
|
|
Islam / Muslim (includes Black Muslim) |
|
|
110 |
.1 |
159 |
0.1 |
243 |
|
|
Jehovah’s Witnesses |
|
|
1,459 |
1.0 |
2,608 |
1.4 |
3,366 |
1.5 |
|
Judaism |
1,100 |
.9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Latter-day Saints
/ Mormons |
|
|
|
|
612 |
0.3 |
928 |
0.4 |
|
Mayan religions (Kekchí
and Maya) - Animism |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obeah – Myalism – Voudun
(Creoles) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rastafarian (Creoles) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Catholic Popular Religiosity (Mestizos) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NOT STATED (and
NONE in 1970) |
9,129 |
7.6 |
4,138 |
2.9 |
|
|
|
|
|
NONE / NOT REPORTED |
|
|
1,757 |
1.2 |
11,025 |
6.0 |
23,162 |
10.0 |
|
TOTALS (enumerated
population) |
119,645 |
100% |
142,847 |
100% |
184,722 |
100% |
232,111 |
100% |
|
TOTALS (estimated
population) |
119,935 |
100% |
145,353 |
100% |
192,877 |
100% |
240,204 |
100% |
Notes:
(1)
The determination of which groups
belong in the “Protestant” category was made by PROLADES based on information
provided by the respective national census, and the statistics for the category
of “Other” were modified accordingly.
(2)
The data missing from the respective
columns is due to a lack of information provided by the Census department; we
have listed all known religious groups in
(3) In
the 2000 Census, the TOTAL OTHER, NOT STATED AND NONE is given as 14.6%, but
some of the religious groups assigned to this category by the Census department
probably belong to our definition of “Protestant” if the details were known.
Sources:
(1) Table D-11, “Population by
Religion: 1960, 1970 and
Volume
3.
(2)
1991 Census data is included in the document Population Census 2000 –
Major Findings: http://www.statisticsbelize.org.bz/dms20uc/dm_tree.asp?pid=5
(3)
Belize Housing and Population Census, 2000; Statistical Institute of
Belize website:
http://celade.cepal.org/cgibin/RpWebEngine.exe/PortalAction?&MODE=MAIN&BASE=CPVBLZ2000&MAIN=WebServerMain.inl
(4)
Population Census 2000 – Major Findings:
http://www.statisticsbelize.org.bz/dms20uc/dm_tree.asp?pid=5