Arab Christians

Country Arab Population Christian Percentage Christian Population
***Egypt 74,718,797 8 5,977,504
**South America 3,000,000 80 2,400,000
**USA/ L, S, P, E, J 3,000,000 77 2,310,000
Eriteria 4,362,245 50 2,181,123
Sudan 38,114,160 5 1,905,708
***Europe/ Australia 3,000,000 70 2,100,000
*Syria 17,585,540 14 2,461,976
Lebanon 3,727,703 40 1,491,081
Iraq 24,683,313 3 0,740,499
Morocco 31,689,625 1.1 0,348,586
Algeria 32,818,500 1 0,328,185
Jordan 5,460,265 6 0,327,616
Gulf countries     0,100,000
West Bank 2,237,194 8 0,178,976
Israel 6,116,533 2.1 0,128,447
Tunisia 9,924,742 1 0,099,247
Djiboti 0,457,130 6 0,027,428
Gasa Strip 1,264,868 0.7 0,008,854
       
Total     23,115,229
       
Sources: CIA Fact World Book; Arab American Institute  
*** The number is based on Egyptian Authorities, The Copts claim more than 14% of the population which
makes about 11 Million souls    
** The Number includes The Syrian-Lebaness immagrants. It does not includes other Arabic communities
** The number is from Arab American Institute and it includes all the immagrant from Arabic Origin
*** This is also for the Immagrant from the East side of the Arabic World (Mostly Syrian, Lebaness).It
does includes the immagrants from The West side (Tunisia, Morrocco, Algeria, Lybia)
* According to CIA World book about 10 percent of Syria's Population are Christians. This
estimation came from an assumption that Christians increase in population is less than Muslims; However
and according to numbers obtained from different Archdiocess, there are close to 2.5 Million Baptised
souls in Syria.

Last Updated on 4/3/04
By eAlshaib