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| Total population | |
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| c. 77 million+ (worldwide, 2020)[1][2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Germany | 10,814,631 |
 Ethiopia | 10,404,128 |
 Tanzania | 7,916,253 |
 Sweden | 5,900,000 |
 Indonesia | 5,705,589 |
 India | 4,386,957 |
 Denmark | 4,339,511 |
 Madagascar | 4,000,000 |
 Finland | 3,800,000 |
 Norway | 3,746,308 |
 United States | 2,900,000 |
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Lutheranism is present on all inhabited continents with an estimated 80 million adherents,[3] out of which 74.2 million are affiliated with the Lutheran World Federation. A major movement that first began the Reformation, it constitutes one of the largest Protestant branches claiming around 80 million out of 920 million Protestants.[4] The Lutheran World Federation brings together the vast majority of Lutherans. Apart from it, there are also other organisations such as the International Lutheran Council and the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference, as well as multiple independent Lutheran denominations.
Today, almost half of Lutherans are living in Europe. Germany accounts for one-third of European Lutherans and one-eighth of the world's Lutheran population. Most of the remaining European Lutherans are confined to the Lutheran-majority Nordic countries and to a lesser extent the Central European countries of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania (notably Transylvania ) Austria and Czechia. United States accounts for one-eighth of the world's Lutheran population, but only around 4 million of them are members in the Lutheran World Federation.[a] It has the most Lutherans in North America. Ethiopia and Tanzania have the largest Lutheran populations in Africa, while Indonesia in Asia, Papua New Guinea in Oceania and Brazil in South America.
- ^ "More than 77 million Lutherans in 148 LWF member churches". lutheranworld.org. Lutheran World Federation (LWF). 22 July 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "The Lutheran World Federation – 2019 Membership Figures" (PDF). lutheranworld.org. Lutheran World Federation (LWF). Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "About Us". Lutheran Church of New Zealand. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- ^ "LWF membership represents over 78 million Christians in the Lutheran tradition in 99 countries across the globe". The Lutheran World Federation. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
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