The World Religion Data Base 2010 reports that 59% of sub-Saharan residents are Christian, only 35% Muslim, the remainder being traditional African religions, atheists, etc. That surprised me.
The Pew Research Centre interviewed 25,000 (!) sub-Saharans and found a high degree of mutual respect based on tolerance, honesty and decency to women between Christians & Muslims, but there was greater concern by both Christians & Muslims about Muslim exteremists’ violence than about Christian violence (except South Africa, where the potential of Christian violence was deemed greater).
By large majorities, all countries’ citizens described religion as “very important–98% in Senegal! (only 57% in the U.S., 25% in Germany, 8%% in Sweden).
