Tolerance and Tension

Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa

POLL · April 15, 2010

Concerns About Extremism
How concerned are you about extremist religious groups in your country?

Select a response option and use the arrows to sort the data alphabetically, by total population, among Christians or among Muslims.

CountryTotal PopulationAmong ChristiansAmong Muslims
Botswanabar 32bar 36bar NA
Cameroonbar 27bar 27bar 29
Chadbar 39bar 37bar 40
Djiboutibar 36bar NAbar 35
DR Congobar 29bar 31bar 22
Ethiopiabar 38bar 42bar 30
Ghanabar 41bar 42bar 48
Guinea Bissaubar 66bar 69bar 61
Kenyabar 29bar 29bar 28
Liberiabar 38bar 45bar 31
Malibar 16bar NAbar 17
Mozambiquebar 25bar 25bar 25
Nigeriabar 23bar 22bar 25
Rwandabar 46bar 47bar NA
Senegalbar 11bar NAbar 11
South Africabar 28bar 30bar NA
Tanzaniabar 30bar 30bar 29
Ugandabar 23bar 23bar 24
Zambiabar 45bar 45bar NA

Complete Question Wording

Q86. How concerned, if at all, are you about extremist religious groups in our country these days? Are you very concerned, somewhat concerned, not too concerned, or not at all concerned about extremist religious groups in our country these days?
Read the survey methodology and the topline questionnaire

Notes

In countries where there were too few interviews with either Muslims or Christians, that subpopulation was not analyzed. Figures may not add to 100 due to rounding.

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