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The creeds of the world.
--The following classification of the inhabitants of the earth, according to the creeds, is made by C. F. W. Deitterich, a very thorough and careful statistician, and Director of the Statistical Department of Berlin.
Taking the number of 1,200,000,000 as the population of the earth, he classifies them as follows:
Christians, 335,000,000, or 25.77 per cent. Jews, 5,000,000, or 38 per cent.
Asiatic religions, 600,000,000.
or 46.15 per cent.
Mahomedan, 150,000,000, or 12.81 per cent.
Pagans, 200,000,000, or 25.29 per cent.
Total, 1,200,000,000, or 100 per cent.
The 335,000,000 of Christians are again divided into--
170,000,000 Roman Catholics, 60.7 per cent.
89,000,000 Protestants, 25.6 per cent.
76,000,000 Greek Catholics, 22.7 per cent.
Total, 335,000,000, or 100 per cent.