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New Zealand Religious Groups
2001 Census Data
Main Census page
| 2013 | 2006 | 2001
| 1996 | 1991
A breakdown of New Zealand religions for 2001.
- Anglican--584,793
- Catholic--486,015
- Presbyterian--431,547
- Christian, not further specified (nfd)--192,165
- Methodist--120,705
- Pentecostal--67,239
- Baptist--51,426
- Ratana--48,975
- Buddhist--41,634
- Latter-day Saints--39,915
- Hindu--39,504
- Islam/Muslim--23,634 (includes Sufi--195)
- Brethren--20,406
- Jehovah's Witness--17,826
- Ringatu--15,288
- Adventist--14,868
- Salvation Army--12,618
- Evangelical, Born Again and Fundamentalist--11,019
- Orthodox--9,588
- Judaism/Jewish--6,636
- Nature and Earth Based Religions--5,862 (includes Animist, Druid,
Pantheist, Wiccan)
- Spiritualist--5,853
- Sikh--5,199
- Lutheran--4,314
- Church of Christ and Associated Churches of Christ--3,270
- Baha'i--2,991
- Other New Age Religions--2,787
- Protestant, nfd--2,784
- Maori Religion--1,995 (includes Hauhau)
- Theism--1,488
- Other New Age Religions--1,485
- Uniting/Union Church and Ecumenical--1,389
- Rastafarianism--1,296
- Chinese Religions--1,272 (includes Confucianism, Taoism)
- Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)--1,074
- Satanism--891
- Other Maori Christian--660
- Nazarene--495
- Zoroastrian--486
- New Age nfd--423
- Church of God--402
- Hare Krishna--363
- Japanese Religions--300 (includes Mahikari, Shinto, Tenrikyo)
- Scientology--282
- Christian Science--258
- Asian Christian--195
- Unification Church--153
- Liberal Catholic--135
- Jainism--57
Other religion, nfd--4,644
No religion--1,028,052
Don't know--1,230
Object to answering--239,241 (previously listed as 286,461)
Not stated/did not answer sensibly--286,167 – this includes "Response
Outside Scope"--64,512 – which includes roughly 54,000 poor misunderstood
Jedi Knights*
Total--3,737,277 (previously listed as 3,468,813)
* This would have placed Jedi as the second largest religion in New Zealand,
after Christianity (ignoring atheism as a
religion), making it the highest Jedi response rate in the world. FWIW
there were 71,000 Jedi in Australia at their equivalent census.
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