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With the emergence of Islam in the 7th century, Ethiopia's Christians became isolated from the rest of the Christian world. The head of the Ethiopian church has been appointed by the patriarch of the Coptic church in Egypt, and Ethiopian monks had certain rights in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Ethiopia was the only region of ...
Haile Selassie's government reportedly concealed the actual figures of the Muslim population in order to present Ethiopia as a Christian nation to the outside world. [16] The writers of Ethiopia: a country study claimed that Islam made up 50% of the total population in 1991 based on the 1984 census commissioned by the Derg regime. [16]
Muslims were able to have their own space and the population of Muslims increased because of wider urbanization. Islam and Christianity have had their conflicts within the country, from the birth of Islam into the 16th century Christians dominated the borderlands where Islam was more prominent.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
The population of Pentecostal Christians is around 202.29 million in 2015, being 35.32 percent of the continent's Christian population. [194] A study estimated that there may be up to four hundred million Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians in Africa. [195] Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church – 9 million [196]
The population was only about nine million in the 19th century. [6] The 2007 Population and Housing Census results show that the population of Ethiopia grew at an average annual rate of 2.6% between 1994 and 2007, down from 2.8% during the period 1983–1994. As of 2015, the population growth rate is among the top ten countries in the world. [7]
Census data indicates the Christian population is 38.4% Roman Catholic, 26.3% Protestant, 4% other Christian denominations, including Jehovah's Witnesses, and less than 1% Orthodox Christians. Muslims and Christians live in every region, although Christians are concentrated primarily in the southern and western regions.
According to the 2007 National Census, Christians make up 62.8% of the country's population, Muslims 33.9%, practitioners of traditional faiths 2.6%, and other religions 0.6%. [6] The ratio of the Christian to Muslim population has largely remained stable when compared to previous censuses conducted decades ago. [297]