Religion in Chad

Islam and Christianity are the most widely professed religions in Chad. Smaller populations of non-religious people as well as adherents of other faiths are also present.^[2][3]

Among Chadian Muslims, 95% professed to be Sunni, 1% Shia, and 4% other. They are largely concentrated in the northern and eastern regions, whereas animists and Christians live primarily in southern Chad and Guéra.^[4] Islam was brought in the course of the Muslim conquest of the Sudan region, in the case of Chad completed in the 11th century with the conversion of the Kanem–Bornu Empire.

Christianity arrived in Chad with the French, at the end of the 19th century.^[5] Among Chadian Christians, 22.8% profess to be Catholic and 17.9% profess to be Protestant.