12.1% of the population in Riau Islands Province is Protestant.
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The Protestant population in Riau Islands Province as of December 31, 2024, was recorded at 267,620 individuals. This represents an increase of 10,117 individuals compared to the previous year's reported figure of 257,500.
According to Ministry of Religious Affairs data, the proportion of Protestants in this province reached 12.1 percent of the total population in 2024, which numbered 2.22 million.
Considering its distribution across the population of each region in Sumatra, the proportion of Protestants in Riau Islands ranks third.
Below is the population of Riau Islands by religion in 2024:
- Islam 1,740,897 (78.42%)
- Protestant 267,617 (12.05%)
- Buddhist 149,056 (6.71%)
- Catholic 57,987 (2.61%)
- Confucian 3,241 (0.15%)
- Hindu 901 (0.04%)
Compared to other regions in Sumatra, the number of Protestants in this province is among the top three.
Other regions with the top 10 highest numbers of Protestants on the island of Sumatra are North Sumatra with 4,119,762 individuals, Riau with 686,683, Jambi with 127,929, Lampung with 121,510, West Sumatra with 88,980, South Sumatra with 87,325, Aceh with 64,984, Bengkulu with 33,718, and Bangka Belitung Islands with 32,469.
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