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According to World Population Review, there were 2.38 billion Christians around the world in 2021. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, if current trends continue, Christianity will remain the world's largest religion by year 2050.
- Americas
- Europe
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Asia-Pacific
- Middle East-North Africa
(51 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES) Christians living in the Americas make up 37% of Christians worldwide.8The three countries in the Americas with the largest Christian populations also have the three largest Christian populations in the world: the United States (247 million Christians), Brazil (176 million) and Mexico (108 million). The 10 countries i...
(50 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES) Roughly a quarter of the world’s Christians (26%) live in Europe.9 This makes Europe the region with the second-largest share of the world’s Christians, following the Americas. Russia has the largest absolute number of Christians in Europe (105 million). Despite the Communist government’s attempts to minimize religion...
(51 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES) Sub-Saharan Africa has more than 500 million Christians, which makes it the region with the third-largest number of Christians worldwide.11Collectively, the region’s 51 countries and territories are home to nearly a quarter of the world’s Christians (24%). Together, the 10 countries with the largest number of Christia...
(60 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES) The Asia-Pacific region includes 13% of the world’s Christians.13The region’s largest Christian population in absolute numbers is in the Philippines, a country that is overwhelmingly Christian (93%). Christians make up a minority of the population in China (5%), India (3%) and Indonesia (9%), but because these countri...
(20 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES) The Middle East-North Africa region is home to less than 1% of the world’s Christians.14Only about 4% of the region’s residents are Christian. Although Christianity began in this region, it now has the lowest overall number of Christians and the smallest share of its population that is Christian. Christians are a mino...
Feb 11, 2022 · Around 31% of the world’s population are Christians, closely followed by Muslims at 25%. Jews have the smallest population of major religions, with only 0.2% of the world identifying as Jewish. Let’s take a look at the religious composition of the world when accounting for regions: Region. Christians.
Dec 19, 2011 · A comprehensive demographic study finds that there are 2.18 billion Christians of all ages around the world, representing nearly a third of the estimated 2010 global population of 6.9 billion. Christians are also geographically widespread, and no single region can indisputably claim to be the center of global Christianity.
Christianity is an independent monotheistic religion and, like Islam and Judaism, goes back to Abraham, the progenitor of the Israelites. Christianity has the most followers worldwide with over 2.2 billion believers.
The table provides a statistical overview of the world’s 2.6 billion Christians and their activities. Our 2022 article in the International Bulletin of Mission Research, with its corresponding tables, is now available in several other languages:
A broad overview of various Christian groups including a historical context. See also Christianity by country , Islam by country, Judaism by country, Protestantism by country, Commons:Category:Religion maps of the world.
