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[7] [22] Much of the growth has occurred after World War II, when decolonization of Africa and abolition of various restrictions against Protestants in Latin American countries occurred. [8] According to one source, Protestants constituted respectively 2.5% of South Americans, 2% of Africans and 0.5% of Asians in 1900. [ 8 ]
Other estimates suggest that 48.5% of the U.S. population (or 157 million people) is Protestant. [2] Simultaneously, this corresponds to around 20% of the world's total Protestant population. The U.S. contains the largest Protestant population of any country in the world. Baptists comprise about one-third
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 ]
A 2020 PRRI American Values Survey found that of Democratic voters, 42% were Protestant while 23% identified as Catholic. The same survey found that of Republican voters, 54% were Protestant while only 18% were Catholic. [26] A November 2024 Politico Poll found that Evangelicals outnumbered Catholics among Harris and Trump voters. [27]
A decline of Christian affiliation in the Western world has been observed in the decades since the end of World War II.While most countries in the Western world were historically almost exclusively Christian, the post-World War II era has seen developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities shifting towards post-Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural and multifaith ...
According to Mark Juergensmeyer of the University of California, "popular Protestantism" (that is to say all forms of Protestantism with the notable exception of the historical denominations deriving from the Protestant Reformation) is the most dynamic religious movement in the contemporary world, alongside resurgent Islam.
Hutchison William R. Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions. (1987). Keller, Rosemary Skinner, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Marie Cantlon, eds. Encyclopedia of Women And Religion in North America (3 vol 2006) excerpt and text search; Kidd, Thomas S.
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.