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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.
and in the United States by state, asking the degree to which respondents consider themselves to be religious. The Pew Research Center and Public Religion Research Institute have conducted studies of reported frequency of attendance to religious service. [ 2 ]
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]
The United States has the largest Christian and Protestant population in the world. [11] Judaism is the second-largest religion in the US, practiced by 1.9% of the population, followed by Islam with 0.9% of population, and Hinduism , Buddhism , with 0.7% of the population. [ 12 ]
Episcopal Church in the United States – 1.6 million [47] Church of North India – 1.5 million [48] Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan – 1.1 million [citation needed] Anglican Church of Rwanda – 1.0 million [49] Church of the Province of Central Africa – 0.9 million [50] Anglican Church of Burundi – 0.8 million [51]
Many Americans believe the United States was founded as a Christian nation, and the idea is energizing some conservative and Republican activists. But the concept means different things to ...
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.
From the 1790s until the 1860s, evangelicals were the most influential religious leaders in the United States. [16] For context, the U.S. population was 2.6 million in 1776. By 1860 it had grown to 31.5 million. Between 1790 and 1840, over four million people (more than the entire population in 1776) had moved west of the Appalachian Mountains ...