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.