NationMaster - Jamaican Religion statistics

Islam > Percentage Muslim	0.2%	[142nd of 168]
Islam > Population	5,463	[145th of 165]
Jehovahs Witnesses	11,174	[66th of 178]
Jews	300	[80th of 89]
Protestantism > By country > Protestants	1,639,099	[42nd of 167]
Protestantism > By country > Protestants > % Protestant	60 %	[18th of 163]
Religions Protestant 62.5% (Seventh-Day Adventist 10.8%, Pentecostal 9.5%, Other Church of God 8.3%, Baptist 7.2%, New Testament Church of God 6.3%, Church of God in Jamaica 4.8%, Church of God of Prophecy 4.3%, Anglican 3.6%, other Christian 7.7%), Roman Catholic 2.6%, other or unspecified 14.2%, none 20.9%
Religions > All Protestant 61.3% (Church of God 21.2%, Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Baptist 8.8%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Anglican 5.5%, Methodist 2.7%, United Church 2.7%, Jehovah's Witness 1.6%, Brethren 1.1%, Moravian 1.1%), Roman Catholic 4%, other including some spiritual cults 34.7%
Religions > Protestant	61.3 %	[3rd of 51]
Religions > Roman Catholic	4 %	[92nd of 96]
Roman Catholicism > By country > Roman Catholicism > % Catholic	8 %	[94th of 170]
Roman Catholicism > By country > Roman Catholicism > Catholic total	218,546	[106th of 170]
Seventh-day Adventist Membership	209,189	[22nd of 232]

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SOURCES: International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; CIA World Factbook; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998; Wikipedia: Protestantism by country ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; Wikipedia: Roman Catholicism by country ; adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004

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