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Religious affiliation in New Zealand

	2006		2001		1996
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Total population	4,027,947		3,737,277		3,618,303
Not stated/inadequately described	292,974	7.27	287,376	7.69	212,997	5.89
Object to answering	242,610	6.02	239,244	6.40	256,593	7.09
Positive responses	3,492,363	86.70	3,210,657	85.91	3,148,713	87.02
No religion	1,297,104	37.14	1,028,049	32.02	867,264	27.54
Anglican	554,925	15.89	584,793	18.21	631,764	20.06
Roman Catholic	508,437	14.56	485,637	15.13	473,112	15.03
Presbyterian, Congregational and Reformed	400,839	11.48	431,139	13.43	470,442	14.94
Christian (not further defined)	186,234	5.33	192,165	5.99	186,891	5.94
Methodist	121,806	3.49	120,546	3.75	121,650	3.86
Pentecostal	79,155	2.27	67,182	2.09	69,333	2.20
Baptist	56,913	1.63	51,423	1.60	53,613	1.70
Latter-day Saints	43,539	1.25	39,915	1.24	41,166	1.31
Brethren	19,617	0.56	20,397	0.64	21,933	0.70
Jehovah's Witness	17,910	0.51	17,829	0.56	19,527	0.62
Adventist	16,191	0.46	14,868	0.46	14,691	0.47
Evangelical	13,836	0.40	11,016	0.34	1,584	0.05
Orthodox Christianity	13,194	0.38	9,576	0.30	6,933	0.22
Salvation Army	11,493	0.33	12,618	0.39	14,625	0.46
Other Christian	16,830	0.48	15,513	0.48	16,734	0.53
Total Christian	2,027,418	58.05	2,043,843	63.66	2,143,995	68.09
Ratana	50,565	1.45	48,975	1.52	36,450	1.16
Ringatu	16,419	0.47	15,291	0.48	8,271	0.26
Other Maori Christian	579	0.02	660	0.02	729	0.02
Total Maori Christian	65,550	1.88	63,597	1.98	45,450	1.44
Hindu	64,392	1.84	39,798	1.24	25,551	0.81
Buddhist	52,362	1.50	41,634	1.30	28,131	0.89
Muslim	36,072	1.03	23,631	0.74	13,545	0.43
Spiritualism and New Age religions	19,800	0.57	16,062	0.50	9,786	0.31
Sikh	9,507	0.27	5,199	0.16	2,817	0.09
Jewish	6,858	0.20	6,636	0.21	4,809	0.15
Other religions	14,952	0.43	13,581	0.42	7,359	0.23
Total non-Christian religions	203,943	5.84	146,544	4.56	91,998	2.92
Total population	4,027,947		3,737,277		3,618,303