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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]
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.
Countries and territories with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country, as of 2010: Christian population percentage by country, June 2014 [5] Vatican City 100% (100% Roman Catholic) Pitcairn Islands 100% (100% Seventh-day Adventist) [6] East Timor 99.6% [7] (mostly Roman Catholic) Samoa ~99.0% (mostly Protestant) [8]
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% [2] and ...
The population of Pentecostal Christians is around 202.29 million in 2015, being 35.32 percent of the continent's Christian population. [194] A study estimated that there may be up to four hundred million Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians in Africa. [195] Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church – 9 million [196]
[1] [2] According to the annual directory of the Catholic Church or Annuario Pontificio of 2024, there were 1.390 billion baptized Catholics in 2022. [7] [8] In 2024, the World Christian Database reported 1.278 billion Catholics. [1]
The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) lists many large and smaller populations of Baháʼís in Africa [36] with Kenya (#3: 512,900), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (#5: 282,900), South Africa (#8: 238,500) and Zambia (#10: 190,400) among the top ten numerical populations of Baháʼís in the ...
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .