Sudan Religion Statistics

Updated as of 2020. The Religious Characteristics of States Dataset Project.

Percent of population who are Muslims.

Sudan religion statistics. To achieve these goals a population census with a high accuracy and a full coverage is a necessity. Sudan country located in northeastern AfricaThe name Sudan derives from the Arabic expression bilād al-sūdān land of the blacks by which medieval Arab geographers referred to the settled African countries that began at the southern edge of the Sahara. In July 2011 Sudan divided into two nations as a part of a peace agreement signed in 2005.

In the north Arab culture predominates while the people in the more fertile south belong to many diverse tribes each with their own lifestyle and beliefs. There are conflicting reports as to the religious beliefs in South Sudan though all agree that the three main religions are traditional African religions Christianity and IslamThe South Sudanese President Kiir a Roman Catholic while speaking at Saint Theresa Cathedral in Juba South Sudan stated that South Sudan would be a nation which respects freedom of religion. Sudan with a fair share in power resources services and development.

Capital Khartoum Population 2010 33600000 Annual population growth rate 2000-2010 25 Population gain 2000-2010 7225000 GDP per capita. However the majority of the South Sudanese population follows Christianity often intermingled with traditional cultural practices. This entry is an ordered listing of religions by adherents starting with the largest group and sometimes includes the percent of total population.

The Catholic and Anglican churches are most popular. Sunni Islam in Sudan as in much of the rest of Africa has been characterized by the formation of tarīqah s or Muslim religious brotherhoods. 16 rows Religions Muslim.

The majority of Sudans population is Muslim belonging overwhelmingly to the Sunni branch. Sunni Muslim small Christian minority. The RCS was created to fulfill the unmet need for a dataset on the religious dimensions of countries of the world with the state-year as the unit of observation.

In January 2005 the NorthSouth Comprehensive Peace Agreement. It is unclear whether state figures take into account the fact that not all South Sudanese Christians migrated to South Sudan after its independence see Religion in the South Sudanese profile. Christian and traditional animist beliefs in the south.

For more than a century Sudanfirst as a colonial holding then as an independent countryincluded its neighbour South Sudan. Factbook Countries Sudan Demographics. Some Christians and Muslims incorporate aspects of these traditional beliefs into their religious practice.

Sudan is a diverse developing country in northeastern Africa. South Sudan does not have an official religion and estimates on the numbers of followers of various faiths are unavailable. Social Conventions in Sudan.

Muslim in the north. The rest of the religions range from 3 Christians in northern Sudan Khartoum and the Nuba Mountains to about 003 traditional religions in the Nuba Mountains and Southern Blue Nile regions. The new nation of South Sudan was formed following a referendum on secession held in January 2011.

According to the South Sudan. A study Religion in South Sudan by the Pew Research on Religion stated that South Sudans population are 605 Christian 329 follow traditional African religion 62 are Muslim and 04 are considered other All of the years of civil war in South Sudan has left its economy very weak and underdeveloped. The government believes that 97 of the population follow Islam while only 3 are Christians or animists.

Government statistics indicate less than 1 percent of the population primarily in Blue Nile and South Kordofan States adhere to traditional African religious beliefs. Facts and statistics about the Religions of Sudan. There are Arabs Negroes Beja Nubians and others.

SOUTH SUDAN 2 International Religious Freedom Report for 2018 United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor make it difficult to estimate the overall population and its religious demography accurately. The oldest of these tarīqah s is the Qādiriyyah which was introduced to the Sudan region from the Middle East in the 16th century. Until 1956 Sudan was under Anglo-Egyptian co-rule and since it has gained its independence it has been involved in two civil wars.

Demographics reports the estimates of religious demographics both country by country and region by region. The capital city is Khartoum. Differences in language religion and political power erupted in a civil war between government forces strongly influenced by the National Islamic Front NIF and the southern rebels whose most influential faction was the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army SPLA eventually concluding in the independence of South Sudan in 2011.

The aim of this paper is to record the efforts which have been under taken by the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Southern Sudan Commission. The vast majority are Muslims 967.

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