Editing Demographics of American Samoa (section)

==Religion==
* [[Christianity|Christian]] 98.3%
* Other 1%
* Unaffiliated 0.7% (2010 est.)
Major [[Christian denomination]]s on the island include the [[Congregational Christian Church in American Samoa]], the [[Catholic Church]], the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] and the Methodist Church of Samoa. Collectively, these churches account for the vast majority of the population.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Macpherson |first1=Cluny |last2=Macpherson |first2=La'avasa |date=2011 |title=Churches and the Economy of Sāmoa |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23725519 |journal=The Contemporary Pacific |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=304–337 |doi=10.1353/cp.2011.0042 |jstor=23725519 |s2cid=154742271|hdl=10125/23847 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

[[J. Gordon Melton]] in his book claims that the [[Methodists]], [[Congregationalists]] with the [[London Missionary Society]], and Catholics led the first Christian missions to the islands. Other denominations arrived later, beginning in 1895 with the [[Seventh-day Adventists]], various [[Pentecostals]] (including the [[Assemblies of God]]), [[Church of the Nazarene]], [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], and the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].

The World Factbook 2010 estimate shows the religious affiliations of American Samoa as 98.3% [[Christians|Christian]], other 1%, unaffiliated 0.7%.<ref name="CIA"/> World Christian Database 2010 estimate shows the religious affiliations of American Samoa as 98.3% Christian, 0.7% [[Agnosticism|agnostic]], 0.4% [[Chinese folk religion|Chinese Universalist]], 0.3% [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], and 0.3% [[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]].<ref name="World Christian Database">{{cite web|url=http://www.thearda.com/internationalData/countries/Country_5_2.asp|title=American Samoa: Adherents Profile at the Association of Religion Data Archives, World Christian Database|publisher=Thearda.com|access-date=February 26, 2014|archive-date=September 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929073936/http://www.thearda.com/internationalData/countries/Country_5_2.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to [[Pew Research Center]], 98.3% of the total population is Christian. Among Christians, 59.5% are [[Protestant]], 19.7% are Catholic and 19.2% are [[List of Christian denominations|other Christians]]. A major Protestant church on the island, gathering a substantial part of the local Protestant population, is the [[Congregational Christian Church in American Samoa]], a [[Reformed tradition|Reformed]] denomination in the [[Congregational church|Congregationalist tradition]]. {{As of|2017|8}}, [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] website claims membership of 16,180 or one-quarter of the whole population, with 41 congregations, and 4 family history centers in American Samoa.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/american-samoa|title=LDS Newsroom|publisher=Mormonnewsroom.org|access-date=August 11, 2017}}</ref> The [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] claim 210 "ministers of the word" and  3 congregations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/worldwide/AS/|title=American Samoa: How Many Jehovah's Witnesses Are There?|website=JW.ORG|language=en|access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref>