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- Almost half (49%) of all charismatic Christians in the world live in the Americas, a region in which 16% of the population is charismatic. Nearly 30% of charismatics live in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Dec 19, 2011 · The three countries with the largest Christian populations – the United States, Brazil and Mexico – are in the Americas. Together, these three countries alone account for nearly one in every four Christians in the world (24%), about the same proportion as the whole of Europe (26%) and all of sub-Saharan Africa (24%).
According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, of the then 232 countries and territories, 157 had Christian majorities. 126 countries had a Christian majority, while 71 countries had a Christian minority. [196] Percent (%) Christians. Number of countries.
Country Or EntityChristians% ChristianAfghanistan ( details )6,250/8,000 [26] -30,000 [27]0.02% [27]Albania ( details )580,00017.0% [28]Algeria ( details )20,000-200,000 [29] or 71,000 (estimate ...0.01%American Samoa ( details )70,00098.3%The Most Christian Countries. Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe, Russia, North America, South America, parts of Africa, Timor Leste, the Philippines, and much of Oceania. However, Christianity is also practiced on a smaller scale in regions including the Middle East and Indonesia.
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(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...
Mar 5, 2024 · In 2018, Africa passed Latin America as the continent with the most Christians, with 599 million (597 million in Latin America). In 2019, we identified several gaps in our quantitative understanding of global Christianity and mission: mission and money, short-term mission, and women in World Christianity.
Dec 22, 2020 · The Pentecostal/Charismatic movement is one of the fastest-growing trends in World Christianity today, and it has been for some time . This movement grew from 58 million in 1970 to 656 million in 2021. The Global South is home to 86 percent of all Pentecostals/Charismatics in the world.
