Editing Demographics of Algeria (section)

==Religion==
{{Main|Religion in Algeria}}
{{See also|Early African Church}}

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{{bar percent|[[Islam]] (official; [[Sunni]]) |green|99}}
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Islam is the predominant religion with 99% of the population. There are about 150,000 [[Ibadi]]s in the M'zab Valley in the region of [[Ghardaia]].<ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2011|reason=angelfire.com is a user-generated website. linked page is to a "chapter 8" of an unknown work. it presents no credentials of author and no link to a main page.}} {{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/az/rescon/mgcibadi.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010702084833/http://www.angelfire.com/az/rescon/mgcibadi.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 July 2001 |title=Ibadis and Kharijis |publisher=(via [[Angelfire]]) |access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref>

There were an estimated 10,000 [[Christianity in Algeria|Christians in Algeria]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=Algerian Christian converts fined|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7433869.stm|work=BBC News | date=3 June 2008}}</ref> In a 2009 study the UNO estimated there were 45,000 Catholics and 50,000–100,000 Protestants in Algeria.<ref name=rm>[[Mary-Jane Deeb|Deeb, Mary Jane]]. "[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+dz0074) Religious minorities]" ''Algeria (Country Study)''. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress; Helen Chapan Metz, ed. December 1993. ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the [[public domain]].''</ref> A 2015 study estimates 380,000 Muslims converted to Christianity in [[Algeria]].<ref name="Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background">[https://www.academia.edu/16338087/Believers_in_Christ_from_a_Muslim_Background_A_Global_Census Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background: A Global Census]</ref>