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According to the CIA World Factbook, [17] in 2021, the Christian population in Lebanon was estimated at 44%. In 2012 a more detailed breakdown of the size of each Christian sect in Lebanon was made: Maronite Christians are the largest of the Christian groups who in total account for about 32.4% of the total population of Lebanon. [19]
As the last Lebanese census was conducted in 1932, it is difficult to have precise population estimates. Lebanon has the highest proportion of Christians of any country in the Middle East, but exact size of this population has been disputed for many years. One estimate of the Christian share of Lebanon's population, as of 2012, was 40.5%. [18]
A 2012 study conducted by Statistics Lebanon, a Beirut-based research firm, estimated Lebanon's population to be 54% Muslim (27% Shia; 27% Sunni), 46% Christian (31.5% Maronite, 8% Greek Orthodox, 6.5% other Christian groups) [11] The CIA World Factbook estimates (2020) the following, though this data does not include Lebanon's sizable Syrian ...
Christians were half of Lebanon's population before the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), but in 2012 they are believed to form a large minority of 40.5% [115] of the country's population (according to the last official Lebanese Census of 1932, the Lebanese Christian population was 51% [116] of the country's population).
Christian population growth. Christian population growth is the population growth of the global Christian community. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were more than 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, more than three times as many as the 600 million recorded in 1910.
From 2010 to 2013, ... About 350,000-450,000 of Christians in Lebanon are Orthodox and ... Saudi Arabia's Arab Christian population consists mostly of Lebanese and ...
In 2012, Maronites constituted 31% of Lebanon's population, according to estimates. [23] The Maronite Church's website claims 1,062,000 members were in Lebanon in 1994 which would have made them around 31% of Lebanon's population. [24] Maronite Catholics are the largest Christian group, followed by Greek Orthodox. [25]
Demographics of major traditions within Christianity (Pew Research Center, 2010 data) [204] Tradition Followers % of the Christian population % of the world population Follower dynamics Dynamics in- and outside Christianity Catholicism: 1,200,000,000 52.4 15.9 Growing Stable Protestantism: 800,640,000 34.9 11.6 Growing Growing Orthodoxy ...