Numbers for the Anglican Communion
The Global South Communique speaks of the Global South being "the vast majority of the active membership of the Communion". A review of the statistics available would bear this out and gives a percentage of about 80 percent.
On the Anglican Communion Office website the number is given as 80 million. This cannot be the case given a proper understanding of the figures for the Church of England. Of these 80 million 26 million are reckoned to be with the Church of England. The Church of England official statistics gives the total attendance for all ages on Christmas Eve / Christmas Day 2008 as 2.6 million. ( see http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/statistics/) So the real total for the Anglican Communion needs to be reduced by at least 20 million. To take the larger provinces of the Communion.
In the Global South
Kenya 5,000,000 ACK website
Indian Ocean 120,000 Anglican Communion website
The total of the above is 50,004,821
The totals for other provinces are
CofE 2.6 million (Cof E statistics)
Total 11,871,617
Combined totals 61,876,438
As a percentage the Global South is 80 per cent.
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