A 2020 Pew Forum survey estimates that approximately 63% of the population of Tanzania identifies as Christian, 34% as Muslim, and 5% practitioners of other religions.[1] Most Christians are Catholics and Lutherans, although there are also Anglicans, Pentecostals and other groups.
According to a 2015 study, 27.7% of the population of Tanzania (15 million people) is Protestant.[2][3] A similar percentage is Catholic, while other Christian groups, including Orthodox, make up nearly 3% of the population.
The earliest Protestant denomination in the country is the Moravian Church in Western Tanzania which began when German missionaries arrived in Tanganyika in 1897. In 2023, there are 120,000 Moravians in West Tanzania alone[4] and almost half a million throughout the country, meaning that more than half of all Moravians in the world live in Tanzania.[5][6]
The main Protestant denominations are the Lutheran Church, the Anglican Church of Tanzania and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania.[7]
Other Protestant denominations in Tanzania include;[8][9]
African independent and instituted churches (AICs)
Baptist Convention of Tanzania (BCT)
Christian Reformed Church in Eastern Africa
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Methodists
Mennonite Church in Tanzania
Mormons
Presbyterians
Quakers
Salvation Army
Seventh-day Adventists
In 2023, Tanzania scored 3 out of 4 for religious freedom.[10]
^US State Dept 2022 report
^Partner Religion Development report (page 34)
^"World Atlas - Religious Beliefs in Tanzania".
^Moravian Church website
^Evangelical Times website
^"Herrnhuter Mission aktuell: 31-2016 vom 03.12.2016". Herrnhuter-missionshilfe.de. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
^Catholics And Culture website
^Partner Religion Development report (page 34)
^Methodist Church website
^Freedom House website, Retrieved 2023-08-01
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