Chris Sudgen of Anglican Mainstream shared this morning on email:
“The Global South Communique speaks of the Global South being “the vast majority of the active membership of the Anglican Communion”. A review of the statistics available would bear this out and gives a percentage of about 80 percent.
On the Anglican Communion Office website the number is given as 80 million. This cannot be the case given a proper understanding of the figures for the Church of England. Of these 80 million, 26 million are reckoned to be with the Church of England. The Church of England official statistics gives the total attendance for all ages on Christmas Eve / Christmas Day 2008 as 2.6 million. ( see http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/statistics/) So the real total for the Anglican Communion needs to be reduced by at least 20 million.”
Read on for numbers in the global south:
Nigeria 20 million
Uganda 8,782,821 2002 Census
Kenya 5,000,000 ACK website
Southern Africa 3 million to 4 million ACSA website Say 3.5 million
Church of South India 3.8 million Wikipedia
Church of North India 1,250,000 Wikipedia
Tanzania 2,5 million Wikipedia
Rwanda 1 million
West Africa 1 million
West Indies 770,000 Lambeth Directory 1998
Pakistan 800,000 Wikipedia and Lambeth Directory 1998
Indian Ocean 120,000 Anglican Communion website
Burundi 425,000 Lambeth Directory
Central Africa 600,000 Lambeth Directory
Congo 300,000 Lambeth Directory
Myanmar 49,000 Lambeth Directory
South East Asia 98,000 Wikipedia
Jerusalem and Middle East 10,000
The total of the above is 50,004,821
The totals for other provinces are
Australia 3,903,324 (Anglican Communion Website)
New Zealand 584,793 (Anglican Communion website)
CofE 2.6 million (Cof E statistics)
USA 2,285,000 worldwide Wikipedia
Canada 2,035,500 Wikipedia
Ireland 410,000 Lambeth Directory
Scotland 53,000 Lambeth Directory
Total 11,871,617
Combined totals 61,876,438
As a percentage the Global South is 80 per cent.
Nigeria 20 million, West Africa 1 million — there seems to be a discrepancy there.