| RECAPITULATION. |
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| I. Catholic population in Europe | 147,194,000 |
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| II. Catholic population In Asia and Oceania | 9,666,000 |
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| III. Catholic population in Africa | 4,071,000 |
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| IV. Catholic population in America | 46,930,000 |
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| Catholic population in the four parts of the globe | 207,801,000 |
Thus we reach the sum of nearly two hundred and eight millions; nor do we fear exaggeration in the number. But were even some one reluctant to accept our results, such attenuating doubts could never diminish our total beyond eight millions. Thus when we asserted that there are two hundred millions of Catholics in the world, we gave a figure far under our calculations, in order to place it above all doubt.
II. We will now exhibit, in very simple tables, the grand division of the inhabitants of the world, according to the different religious creeds:
| Christianity | 344,000,000 |
| Catholic Church | 208,000,000 |
| Eastern Churches, schismatic or heretical | 70,000,000 |
| Protestantism | 66,000,000 |
| Total | 344,000,000 |
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| Judaism | 4,000,000 |
| Islamism | 100,000,000 |
| Brahminism | 60,000,000 |
| Buddhism | 180,000,000 |
| Worship of Confucius, Sinto, of Spirits, etc. | 152,000,000 |
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| Total of inhabitants of the world | 840,000,000 |