Brazil: 3.3 times as many Catholics as Protestants in 2010
Pew’s 2011 release: 133.66 million Catholics and 40.5 million Protestants. Historical all-age estimates.
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Pew’s 2011 release: 133.66 million Catholics and 40.5 million Protestants. Historical all-age estimates.
Bars start at zero. Each uses a published value; the year and measurement universe are listed below.
- Catholics thousand persons
133,660 (2010)
- Protestants thousand persons
40,500 (2010)
Published estimates with the same units. Small bounded estimates are not substituted as exact values. This is a descriptive comparison.
Historical all-age estimates for 2010 from Pew’s 2011 release, 232 countries/territories. Pew’s 2025 revision does not update this detailed split: do not splice into the revised Christian total series. Affiliation, not practice. Protestant includes Anglicans and independent churches; Orthodox includes Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches. Other Christians include, among others, Latter-day Saints and Jehovah’s Witnesses under the source classification. Counts of at least 10,000 are rounded to 10,000; <1,000 and <10,000 remain bounds in the typed table only. The source states that <10,000 means 1,000–9,999, not zero. World is the sum of the five regions in the same release. Netherlands Antilles and Channel Islands are not assigned to a single present-day country. Geography follows the 2011 release; South Sudan is separate. Macroscope analysis. Pew Research Center bears no responsibility for the analyses or interpretations of the data presented here. The opinions expressed herein, including any implications for policy, are those of the author and not of Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center has published the original content in English but has not reviewed or approved this translation.
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