The short answer
The Living Bread maps 340 Christian churches in Zambia in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.Zambia in context
19.6 millionpopulation
98.0%Christian (Zambia census, 2022)
19.2 millionChristians (approx.)
340churches we map
The churches of Zambia are Protestant 74.5%, Roman Catholic 17.9%.
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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from Zambia census (2022); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.
