Christianity in Africa.
Christianity is embraced by the majority of the population in most Southern African and Central African states and others in some East and West Africa. The Coptic Christians make up a significant minority in Egypt. The World Book Encyclopedia has estimated that in 2002 Christians formed 40% of the continent's population, with Muslims forming 45%. In a relatively short time, Africa has gone from having a majority of followers of indigenous, traditional religions, to being predominantly a continent of Christians and Muslims. Today in 2013, Traditional African religions is the majority religion only in Togo. In South Sudan, no official statistics currently exist and some scholarly studies state that native African religion is more popular than Christianity. However, the most recent December 18, 2012 Pew Forum research estimates that in 2010, 6.010 million Christians, 3.270 million traditional African religion followers, 610,000 Muslims and 50,000 unaffiliated (no known religion) peoples lived in South Sudan. This would mean that in 2010 according to Pew Forum, about 60.46% of the population of South Sudan's 9,940,000 population were Christian while 32.9% were followers of traditional African religions.