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Sudan
RELIGIOUS LIFE
Somewhat more than half Sudan's population was Muslim in the
early 1990s. Most Muslims, perhaps 90 percent, lived in the north,
where they constituted 75 percent or more of the population. Data
on Christians was less reliable; estimates ranged from 4 to 10
percent of the population. At least one-third of the Sudanese
were still attached to the indigenous religions of their forebears.
Most Christian Sudanese and adherents of local religious systems
lived in southern Sudan. Islam had made inroads into the south,
but more through the need to know Arabic than a profound belief
in the tenets of the Quran. The SPLM, which in 1991 controlled
most of southern Sudan, opposed the imposition of the sharia (Islamic
law).
Data as of June 1991
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