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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



RELIGIOUS STATISTICS. 



NUMBERS IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CREED. 

 The following estimates, by M. Fournier de Flaix, are the latest that have been made by a competent authority. 



CHRISTIANITY. 



DISTRIBUTION OF SEMITIC ARYAN RACES. 



RELIGIOUS DIVISIONS OF EUROPE. 



The distinction between followers and actual communicants should be observed. 



ENGLISH-SPEAKING RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES OF THE WORLD. 



A very large number more than 18,000,000 of Hindoos, Mohammedans, Buddhists, and others in the East 

 also speak andread English. 



The estimates in the last table are from Whitaker's (London) Almanack, 1895. 



The EncyclopediaBritannica, last edition, makes a rough estimate of numbers of Protestants in the world 

 speaking all civilized languages, and places the Lutherans at the head, with over 42,000,000 members (mostly in 

 Germany and Scandinavia), and the Anglican Church second, with about 20,000,000 members. 



* United States census of 1890. 



