Religious Demography More than 70 percent of the population are Christian. Churches, with smaller numbers of Anglicans, Baptists, evangelicals, and Seventh-Day Adventists. There is a substantial Muslim minority totaling approximately 20 percent of the population. Most Muslims are Sunni. There are also Hindus, Baha'is, and followers of traditional indigenous religions.
Atheism is negligible.
Missionaries and charitable workers pay lower fees for employment permits than do other professionals. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report. There were no reports of religious detainees or prisoners. There were no reports of the forced religious conversion of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the Government's refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States. There are generally amicable relations between the various religious communities.