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New Data From the 2022 Census Reveal a Christian Brazil 87% - 02/09/2026

Summary by Folha De S.Paulo
That Catholics had shrinked, and the Evangelicals consolidated themselves as the second largest religious force in the country, adding 26.9% of the population aged 10 or over, that the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) had already released last year. But new data draw a more specific scenario of religion in Brazil. Read more (09/02/2026
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<p>IBGE disclosed microdata from the census sample of 2022, allowing the visualization of religions by weighting area. Check in its municipality</p> <p>On August 31, the IBGE disclosed the last large data collection of the census of 2022, the microdata of the sample. Thus, the data as the religion of the Brazilians is available at weighting area level.</p> <p>These areas, in most cities, correspond to neighborhoods or districts. They are the sma…

That Catholics had shrinked, and the Evangelicals consolidated themselves as the second largest religious force in the country, adding 26.9% of the population aged 10 or over, that the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) had already released last year. But new data draw a more specific scenario of religion in Brazil. Read more (09/02/2026

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Folha de S.Paulo broke the news in São Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
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