WORLDWIDE COUNT OF BLACK CATHOLICS *
(The count is based on millions and fractions of a million. Though there are more Catholics of African descent than in the various nations listed before, there number would be under a half million: that is .5 million.)
AFRICA LATIN
130 Million AMERICA
60 Million
Angola 2.4
Benin 1.4 Brazil 40
Burkina Faso 1 Columbia 15
Burundi 6.3 Ecuador .8
Cameroon 4.6 Guatemala .2
Central Africa Republic 1.2 Honduras .2
Chad 1.5 Mexico .6
Congo 1.5 Panama 2
Ethiopia .5 Venezuela 2
Gabon .6
Ghana 5.3 CARIBBEAN &
Ivory Coast 2 NORTH AMERICA
Kenya 9 20 Million
Malawi 2.9
Mozambique 7 Dominican Republic 8
Nigeria 17 Haiti 6
Rwanda 5.6 United States 2
Senegal .5
South Africa 3.8
Sudan 2.1
Tanzania 11.6
Togo 1.9 * Research done by THE CATHOLIC AFRICAN
Uganda 12.8 WORLD NETWORK. The sources used were:
Zaire 24.6 The World Christian Encyclopedia edited
Zambia 3.5 by D. Barrett & The 1990 Catholic Almanac
Zimbabwe 2.6 edited by F. Foy, OFM.
