Religion in Chad

Islam and Christianity are the most widely professed religions in Chad. A smaller share of Chadians has no religion or adhere to other faiths, including traditional religions.

Chadian Muslims represent the majority of the population; according to a 2010 Pew Research Centre survey, 53% professed to be Sunni, 23% non-denominational and 4% Ahmadi. They are largely concentrated in the northern, eastern, and central regions, whereas traditional religions or animists and Christians live primarily in southern Chad and Guéra. 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. Among Chadian Christians, 22.8% profess to be Catholic and 17.9% profess to be Protestant.