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As of 2010, Roman Catholics were the largest Christian group in Europe, accounting for more than 48% of European Christians. [3] The second-largest Christian group in Europe were the Orthodox, who made up 32% of European Christians. [3] About 19% of European Christians were part of the mainline Protestant tradition. [3]
According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, of the then 232 countries and territories, 157 had Christian majorities. [10] Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] .
In England and Wales, Christianity had approximately 27.52 million adherents as of 2021. Of Finland’s 5.6 million inhabitants, 3.74 million identified as Christian in 2022.
But the report also shows that the number of Christians in what many consider the religion’s heartland, the continent of Europe, is in decline. Christians had the most births and deaths of any religious group in recent years, according to our demographic models.
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.
In 1910, about two-thirds of the world’s Christians lived in Europe, where the bulk of Christians had been for a millennium, according to historical estimates by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. 2 Today, only about a quarter of all Christians live in Europe (26%). A plurality – more than a third – now are in the Americas ...
Research shows the majority of Christians in Western Europe are now non-practicing, meaning they do not go to church regularly. Most of these people are baptized (91%), and raised as Christians, but only about 22% of them attend church on a monthly basis or more.
In 2014, Latin America became the continent with the most Christians for the first time in history (581 million), replacing Europe (559 million). In 2018, Africa passed Latin America as the continent with the most Christians, with 599 million (597 million in Latin America).
Europe: About 550 million Christians live in Europe, representing about one fourth (26%) of the global Christian population. The highest number of Christians in Europe reside in Russia (105 million) and Germany (58 million).
Catholics are the largest Christian group in Europe, accounting for more than four-in-ten European Christians (46%). The second-largest Christian group in Europe is the Orthodox, who make up 35% of European Christians.