A new global Christianity report predicts that there will be 26 billion Christians by 2020 with most of the growth expected in the global South while Christianity continues to decline in the global North. Johnson and Gina A.
Christian Population By Country 2020 Cartomission
Christianity - 238 billion.
Christian population in world. About 501 percent of the total are Catholic 367 percent Protestant and 119 percent Orthodox. Other countries with large Christian populations and their respective numbers of adherents include the Philippines with 86 million Russia with between 66 million to 99 million Christians the Democratic Republic of the Congo 63 million Ethiopia 52 million Italy 53 million and Germany 47 million. That gap is expected to narrow by 2060 when Pew Research Center projects there will be 3 billion Christians and nearly 3 billion Muslims.
The impact of religion is on the rise on a global scale. By contrast less than half of the worlds Christians reside in the top 10 Christian population nations with countries in North America South America Africa and Asia. Our latest data delivered Saturdays Overall there are about 23 billion Christians in the world and 18 billion Muslims.
This is according to a report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity Christianity in its Global Context 19702020. As of 2010 there were 22 billion Christians around the world or about one-in-three 31 people worldwide. This makes Christianity the worlds largest religion.
Demographic totals as shown in World Population Prospects. To get a better idea of the numerical population size statistics please consult the following list of the major world religions. According to the Religion and Public Life Project at the Pew Research Center there are 218 billion Christians worldwide which is about 316 percent of the world population of 69 billion as of 2010.
In 2015 475 of Christians lived in one of the 10 nations with largest Christian populations. That is expected to remain steady rising only to 477 by 2060. By the middle of this century the number of people affiliated with a religion is expected to grow by 23 billion from 58 billion in.
The worlds Christian population is expected to grow to 29 billion in 2050. About 23 billion individuals on earth are into Christian faith. The smallest population on our Christian list is also the closest to the faiths birthplace in the Middle East.
229 rows Below is each religions total world population. Christians remained the largest religious group in the world in 2015 making up nearly a third 31 of Earths 73 billion people according to a new Pew Research Center demographic analysis. Today 628 of the population identify as Christian that is 5207000 adherents to the faith of a total population of 82950000.
By 2020 it is estimated that there will be 255 billion Christians representing 33 of the worlds population. It represents nearly one-third of the worlds population and is the largest religion in the world with the three largest groups of Christians being the Catholic Church Protestantism and the Eastern Orthodox Church. About half of all Christians live in just 10 countries.
How Many Christians Are In the World Today. Percentage of Christians Worldwide. Nearly one-third or 312 of the worlds population is considered to be Christian.
Christianity practiced by Christians referred to as people of Faith is by and by the largest religion of all as per an analysis carried out by the Pew Research Center. Around 312 of the total populace are Christians. The largest Christian denomination is the.
But the report also shows that the number of Christians in what many consider the religions heartland the continent of Europe is in decline. Above equate to an average annual growth rate of 118 v 132. Christianity is expected to increase in numbers with the highest growth.
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For the period 2000-2013 the figures in point 1. 195 rows Christianity is the largest religion in the world. 204 rows As of the year 2015 Christianity had approximately 24 billion adherents out of a worldwide population of about 75 billion people.
Islam - 191 billion. In 200 years from 1800-2000 the world population increased more than 6 times but the Christian Population increased faster over the same period over 9 times. Ethiopia has been Christian longer than any other country on this list having adopted Christianity as a state religion as early as the 4 th Century AD.
Top 3 Largest National Christian Populations. Society Religion and Mission. Zurlo World Christian Encyclopedia 3rd edition Edinburgh University Press 2019 with additional data and explanations below.