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What religion is most dominant in Latin America today
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Roman Catholicism is still the largest single religion in Latin America.
However, its share has fallen substantially over recent decades while Protestantism — especially Evangelical/Pentecostal churches — has grown rapidly, and the religiously unaffiliated has increased in some countries. The pattern varies by country: many Andean and Iberian‑American countries remain majority Catholic, several Central American countries and parts of Brazil have large Evangelical populations, and places like Uruguay and parts of the Caribbean are comparatively more secular or religiously mixed (including Afro‑Caribbean and indigenous syncretic faiths).
If you want numbers or a country-by-country breakdown, I can pull recent survey or census data (Pew Research Center, Latinobarómetro, national censuses).
However, its share has fallen substantially over recent decades while Protestantism — especially Evangelical/Pentecostal churches — has grown rapidly, and the religiously unaffiliated has increased in some countries. The pattern varies by country: many Andean and Iberian‑American countries remain majority Catholic, several Central American countries and parts of Brazil have large Evangelical populations, and places like Uruguay and parts of the Caribbean are comparatively more secular or religiously mixed (including Afro‑Caribbean and indigenous syncretic faiths).
If you want numbers or a country-by-country breakdown, I can pull recent survey or census data (Pew Research Center, Latinobarómetro, national censuses).
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