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The United States has the largest Christian population in the world and, more specifically, the largest Protestant population in the world, with nearly 210 million Christians and, as of 2021, over 140 million people affiliated with Protestant churches, although other countries have higher percentages of Christians among their populations.
Size of old population. In 2010, "11% of the world's population was at least 60 years old", 14% of the Christian population was over 60 years old, but only 7% of Muslims were over 60. This is another reason that Muslims are projected to grow faster than Christians. Switching. A loss of 66 million Christians is projected to come through switching.
The United States has the largest Christian and Protestant population in the world. [13] Judaism is the second-largest religion in the US, practiced by 2% of the population, followed by Hinduism , Buddhism , and Islam , each with 1% of the population. [ 14 ]
The U.S. population grew only 0.1% from the previous year before. [92] The United States' population has grown by less than one million people for the first time since 1937, with the lowest numeric growth since at least 1900, when the Census Bureau began yearly population estimates. [92]
and in the United States by state, asking the degree to which respondents consider themselves to be religious. The Pew Research Center and Public Religion Research Institute have conducted studies of reported frequency of attendance to religious service. [ 2 ]
Mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Episcopal Church (76%), [30] the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (64%), [30] and the United Church of Christ (46%), [31] [32] have the highest number of graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita of any other Christian denomination in the United States, [33] as well as the most high-income earners.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [12]