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FIGURE 8A<br />
TABLE OF ESTIMATED PROTESTANT GROWTH IN BELIZE: 1790-<strong>1980</strong><br />
DATE<br />
TOTAL<br />
MEMBER-<br />
SHIP<br />
NUMBER<br />
OF<br />
CONGRE-<br />
GATIONS<br />
AVERAGE<br />
CONG.<br />
SIZE<br />
SOURCES<br />
ESTIMATED<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
RATIO<br />
M:C<br />
ESTIMATED<br />
% PROTES-<br />
TANT<br />
TOTAL<br />
POPULATION<br />
1790 CENSUS 2,656<br />
1832 1,200 48 25 HOLLAND 2,200 1.8 48% 4,550<br />
1835 1,500 75 20 CENSUS 4,500 3.0 41% 11,121<br />
1841 CENSUS 8,235<br />
1861 3,424 137 25 CENSUS 13,689 4.0 53% 25,635<br />
1871 CENSUS 24,710<br />
1891 CENSUS 31,471<br />
1901 3,748 125 30 CENSUS 18,740 5.0 50% 37,479<br />
1911 CENSUS 40,458<br />
1921 4,379 146 30 CENSUS 21,897 5.0 48% 45,317<br />
1931 CENSUS 51,347<br />
1935 5,611 160 35 GRUBB-HOLLAND 22,450 4.0 41% 54,744<br />
1946 7,500 188 40 CENSUS 23,688 3.0 40% 59,220<br />
1960 10,408 232 45<br />
CENSUS &<br />
TAYLOR-COGGINS<br />
31,850 3.1 35% 90,505<br />
1970 14,776 246 60 CENSUS 33,385 2.3 27.8% 119,935<br />
1978 16,801 258 65 HOLLAND 43,562 2.6 33.3% 131,000<br />
<strong>1980</strong> 19,510 300 65 CENSUS 46,711 2.8 32.7% 142,847<br />
NOTES:<br />
1. Congregations include established churches and missions (or mission stations).<br />
2. Ratio M:C = Protestant Membership to Community Ratio.<br />
3. The information to the right of SOURCES is based on the SOURCE cited; the information to the<br />
left of SOURCES has been calculated by the author based on existing historical records from<br />
denominational and other sources, such as Frederick Crowe (1850), Kenneth Grubb (1937) and<br />
Taylor-Coggins (1961).<br />
4. All of the official Census data is taken from Table A2, “Population Size and Growth, 1790-<strong>1980</strong>,”<br />
page 2, <strong>1980</strong>-1981 Population Census of the Commonwealth Caribbean: Belize. Volume 3.<br />
Port of Spain, Trinidad: CARICOM, May 1985.<br />
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