| Table 3. Religion by District, Central Province: 2000 | |||||
| Total | Abau | Goilala | Kairuku - Hiri | Rigo | |
| Total | 183,983 | 38,378 | 27,345 | 78,784 | 39,476 |
| None | 178 | 47 | 14 | 24 | 93 |
| Anglican | 1,078 | 500 | 1 | 536 | 41 |
| Evan. Brotherhood | 162 | 7 | 4 | 137 | 14 |
| South Seas | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Church of Papua | 36 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 2 |
| Wesleyan Church | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Church of Manus | 42 | 0 | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Lutheran | 1,294 | 136 | 18 | 1,117 | 23 |
| Gutnius Lutheran | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Roman Catholic | 62,832 | 898 | 22,942 | 36,134 | 2,858 |
| Salvation Army | 2,807 | 6 | 7 | 184 | 2,610 |
| Seventh Day Adventist | 22,001 | 10,687 | 314 | 7,219 | 3,781 |
| United Church | 76,003 | 23,220 | 431 | 26,393 | 25,959 |
| Kwato Church | 610 | 608 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Assembly of God | 585 | 54 | 51 | 357 | 123 |
| Revival Crusade | 3,083 | 483 | 1,409 | 570 | 621 |
| Life Center | 754 | 0 | 0 | 628 | 126 |
| Lighthouse church | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Four Square Gospel | 184 | 5 | 0 | 173 | 6 |
| Rhema Fellowship | 30 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 4 |
| Wewak Fellowship | 10 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Other Pentacostal | 1,368 | 33 | 383 | 866 | 86 |
| Baptist | 1,231 | 84 | 535 | 368 | 244 |
| Boroko Baptist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sepik Baptist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sovereign Grace | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tokarra Christ. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Western Highland | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Apostolic Church | 455 | 16 | 94 | 39 | 306 |
| Asia Pacific | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Asutalian Church | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Bamu River | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Brethern Church | 260 | 0 | 0 | 260 | 0 |
| Many lands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Union Mission | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Nazarene | 111 | 0 | 13 | 98 | 0 |
| Faith mission | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hohola Mission | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Guinea Gospel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Life Mission | 11 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| New Tribes | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Paliau (Makasol) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Plymouth Brethern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Presbyterian | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tiliba Mission | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Village Mission | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other Christian | 786 | 376 | 118 | 279 | 13 |
| Bahai of PNG | 2,048 | 427 | 0 | 238 | 1,383 |
| Buddhism | 19 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 |
| Church of Christ | 184 | 14 | 0 | 123 | 47 |
| Islam | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Jehovah Witness | 1,198 | 101 | 0 | 835 | 262 |
| Judaism | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hindu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Other religion | 78 | 13 | 0 | 65 | 0 |
| NR | 4,395 | 655 | 994 | 1,896 | 850 |
| NA | 92 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 0 |
| Source: 2000 Papua New Guinea Census | |||||