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Christian denominational families
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Largest denominations in the world
Pentecostalism - Estimates vary widely. The Royal Geographic Society estimates 105 million . The Penguin Concise Encyclopedia estimates "over 22 million" Pentecostals, as does the Cambridge Encyclopedia, while the Oxford Dictionary of World Religion estimates "at least 130 million".
Claimed number of members of different Pentecostal groups are:
Restorationism - 30 million . Figures on this family are hard to assess, as some of the groups within the Restoration Movement subfamily have doctrinal objections to any authority or organization beyond the local congregation; for this reason, such groups do not have any kind of centralized record-keeping nor even an official delineation of which congregations are or are not part of the denomination.
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Largest denominations in the United States
The 2002 Pew report puts the make-up of respective Christian denominations in the USA as a percentage of the total population as:
(Total Christian population as a percentage of the population of the USA = 82%)
Many different branches of the Christian church have membership equalling less than 1% of the total US population, but since the Pew report only polled slightly over 2000 people, the sample is too small to estimate the sizes of these denominations. Therefore, saying that one small church is 'larger' than another is partially guesswork. Even though the sample size is not large enough to accurately differentiate between the respective sizes of some of the smaller churches, the Pew report does give a general picture of the make-up of Christian America in terms of the larger churches.
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