Catholicism in Africa, Kenya, Tanzania

1. Catholicism in Africa: 173 million Catholics
2. African Countries with Catholic majorities

Famous African Catholics:

1. Théophile Obenga
2. Isabel dos Santos
3. Joseph Ki-Zerbo
4. Elikia M'Bokolo
5. Leopold Sédar Senghor

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Catholicism in the African continent

Africa is the third continent by the number of Catholics (173 million).

Angola, Burundi, Cape Verde, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Lesotho, Reunion Islands, São Tomé, and the Seychelles have more than 50% of Catholic population (Christianity).

The African Countries with the largest number of Catholics are the DR Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Catholicism in the African Countries (Data in thousands of people).

Country	Total people	% of Catholics	Total Catholics
Angola Algeria Benin Cape Verde Cameroon Ivory Coast Egypt Eritrea Ghana Guinea-Bissau Guinea The Central African Republic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Malawi Mali Morocco Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Tunisia Uganda Zimbabwe Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Chad Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Mauritania Mauricio Mozambique Namibia Niger Somalia Sudan Eswatini Tanzania The Comoros Gambia Western Sahara Togo Zambia	18.498 32.532 7.460 517 16.380 17.298 77.506 4.562 21.030 1.416 9.468 3,800 3.686 71.713 12.158 12.291 32.726 170.123 8.441 163 11.127 81 6.018 44.344 10.075 35.873 12.747 1.640 13.925 6.371 9.826 476 676 73.053 1.389 43.500 2.067 3.482 5.765 18.040 3.087 1.231 19.407 2.031 11.666 8.592 40.187 1.174 44.929 671 1.593 273 5.681 11.2618	38 - 27 93 26 40 0.3 3 15 9 3 25 50 50 19 1 - 14 56 70 3 82 3 7 - 42 7 5 17 62 20 - 87 - 50 23 45 5 - 24 - 24 28 17 - - 5 20 26 2 2 - 28 26	7.029 - 1.729 480 4.206 6.054 271 152 5.257 127 252 950 1.861 35.856 2.379 189 23 23.817 4.727 144 389 67 174 2.851 22 15.031 983 81 2.367 3.950 880 590 584 697 10.135 930 189 40 4.331 4 289 4.619 344 11 - 2.009 63 11.565 - 33 - 1.579 2.963

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