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Religious belonging and religious demography

Religious belonging - some figures

Numbers of Adherents of Religious Organizations in Latvia

Adherents of Religious Organizations	Numbers
Adherents of Religious Organizations	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Roman Catholics	-	-	-	389 670	407 018	415 440
Evangelical Lutherans	431 447	708 773	714 758	712 891	717 407	700 000
Augsburg Lutherans	600	581	561	8582	608	596
German Evangelical Lutherans	315	308	315	310	310	310
Orthodox Christians	370 000	370 000	370 000	370 000	370 000	370 000
Orthodox Christians (Autonomous)	-	-	240	340	220	220
Old Believers*	2336	2 373	2 345	2 355	2 338	2 393
Old Believers*	2336	34 517	51 330	41 877	39 514	41 042
Baptists	6 970	6 930	7 029	7 026	6 533	6 888
Seventh-day Adventists	4 028	4 046	4 034	3 943	3 989	3 935
Methodists	690	751	760	502	509	526
Jews	419	416	378	327	367	387
Muslims	263	319	340	343	320	337
Vaishnavists (Hare Krishnas)	153	146	145	145	145	145
New Apostolics	1 262	1 268	1 273	1 276	1 280	1 295
Pentecostals	3 132	3 268	3 200	4 736	3 237	3 187
Evangelicalists	3 155	3 171	3 201	3 187	3 175	3 175
New Generation	3 025	3 020	3 020	3 020	3000	3000
Evangelical Christians	1310	1 471	1 519	1 769	2 206	1 717
Evangelical Followers of Messiah	60	86	62	63	67	63
Buddhists	115	155	158	161	158	162
Neopagans Dievturi	581	663	670	691	696	697
Jehovah’s Witnesses	195	290	461	721	721	721
Latter-day Saints (Mormons)	880	852	815	838	902	972
Old Apostolics	276	287	297	305	318	432
Reformed Christians (Calvinists)	145	145	138	80	96	100
Baha’ists	42	42	33	33	31	32
Presbyterians	20	18	26	24	25	20
Vissarionites	37	37	37	37	37	37
Salvation Army	430	464	391	409	408	264
Anglicans	35	50	54	55	57	61
Church of Apostles	56	65	58	74	64	82
Branhamists	27	27	27	27	27	29
Sukyo Mahikari	64	65	74	71	75	72
Hinduists	42	44	51	21	21	21
Christian Science	24	23	24	24	24	-
				Total	1 526 352	1 517 781

Source: Information from the Latvian Ministry of Justice.
*The Latvian Old Believers Church counts only the members of its congregation who have voting rights at their congregation’s general meetings, even though a much larger number of people (39,514 in 2014) could be included as attending services and as belonging to the religious organization.

Numbers of Congregations in Latvia

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Roman Catholics	250	250	250	251	258	247
Evangelical Lutherans	296	294	294	294	292	287
Augsburg Lutherans	8	8	8	8	8	6
German Evangelical Lutherans	10	10	10	10	10	10
Orthodox Christians	121	122	132	134	134	123
Old Believers	69	69	69	68	70	70
Baptists	93	94	95	97	97	96
Seventh-day Adventists	51	51	51	51	51	51
Methodists	13	13	13	13	13	13
Jews	12	12	12	11	13	11
Muslims	15	17	17	17	16	16
Vaishnavists (Hare Krishnas)	11	11	11	11	11	11
New Apostolics	11	11	11	11	11	11
Pentecostals	52	52	52	52	52	51
Evangelical Christians	39	39	39	39	39	39
Evangelical Followers of Messiah	3	4	3	3	3	3
New Generation	18	18	19	19	19	19
Buddhists	3	4	4	4	4	4
Neopagans Dievturi	10	10	10	10	11	11
Jehovah’s Witnesses	15	15	23	36	36	36
Latter-day Saints (Mormons)	4	4	4	4	4	4
Old Apostolics	1	1	1	1	1	1
Reformed Christians (Calvinists)	3	3	3	2	3	2
Baha’ists	1	1	1	1	1	1
Presbyterians	1	1	1	1	1	1
Vissarionites	1	1	1	1	1	1
Salvation Army	1	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelicalists	16	16	18	18	19	20
Anglicans	2	2	2	2	2	2
Church of Apostles	2	2	2	2	2	2
Branhamists	1	1	1	1	1	1
Sukyo Mahikari	1	1	1	1	1	1
Hinduists	2	2	2	1	1	1
Christian Science	1	1	1	1	1	-

Source: Information from the Latvian Ministry of Justice.

An analysis of religious belief and national belonging in Central and Eastern Europe (May 2017) is available on the Pew Research Center website (full report available as a pdf document).

D 24 May 2017 AAnita Stasulane