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According to World Population Review, there were 2.38 billion Christians around the world in 2021. [200] According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, if current trends continue, Christianity will remain the world's largest religion by year 2050.
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.
Using data from the period 2000–2005 the 2006 Christian World Database estimated that by number of new adherents, Christianity was the fastest growing religion in the world with 30,360,000 new adherents in 2006. This was followed by Islam with 23,920,000 and Hinduism with 13,224,000 estimated new adherents in the same period. [101]
Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians by number of followers. Estimates vary from 0.6 to 1.1 billion, or between 24% and 40% of all Christians ...
In 2010, 87% of the world's Christian population lived in countries where Christians are in the majority, while 13% of the world's Christian population lived in countries where Christians are in the minority. [1] Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Sub-Saharan Africa. [1]
Protestants account for nearly forty percent of Christians worldwide and more than one tenth of the total human population. [2] Various estimates put the percentage of Protestants in relation to the total number of the world's Christians at 33%, [ 5 ] 36%, [ 13 ] 36.7%, [ 2 ] and 40%, [ 3 ] while in relation to the world's population at 11.6% ...
A Pew Center study about religion and education around the world in 2016, found that Christians ranked as the second most educated religious group around in the world after Jews with an average of 9.3 years of schooling, [73] and the highest numbers of years of schooling among Christians were found in Germany (13.6), [73] New Zealand (13.5) [73 ...
Catholics represent about half of all Christians. [238] According to World Christian Database, there are 1.278 billion Catholics globally, as of 2024. [4] According to Annuario Pontificio, church membership, defined as baptized Catholics, was 1.378 billion at the end of 2021, which was 17.7% of the world population: [5]