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As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population. According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.
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
2.382 billion: 31.0%: Islam: 1.907 billion: 24.9%: Secular /Nonreligious /Agnostic/Atheist: 1.193 billion: 15.58%: Hinduism: 1.161 billion: 15.2%: Buddhism: 506 million: 6.6%: Chinese traditional religion: 394 million: 5.6%: Ethnic religions excluding some in separate categories 300 million: 3%: African traditional religions: 100 million: 1.2% ...
The study also suggested that by 2050, the global Christian population will change considerably. By 2050, 38% of the world's Christians will live in the Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by 23% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 16% in Europe, 13% in Asia and the Pacific and 10% of the world's Christians will live in North America.
A map of Catholicism by population percentage. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity with 1.345 billion, and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches. Figures below are in accordance with the Annuario Pontificio, at 2019.
The report, “World Population Prospects 2022,” puts the world's population at 7.942 billion now.
In 2024, there are 0.8 — 1.1 billion Protestants worldwide, among approximately 2.5 billion Christians. [10] [1] [11] [12] [b] In 2010, a total of more than 800 million included 300 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 260 million in the Americas, 140 million in Asia-Pacific region, 100 million in Europe and 2 million in Middle East-North Africa. [2]
Christianity is the most prevalent religion in the United States. Estimates from 2021 suggest that of the entire U.S. population (332 million) about 63% is Christian (210 million). [1] The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 42%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman Catholics (70 ...
The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City at 100%, followed by East Timor at 97%. According to the Census of the 2023 Annuario Pontificio (Pontifical Yearbook), the number of baptized Catholics in the world was about 1.376 billion at the end of 2021.
The estimated number of Christians in the world ranges from 2.2 billion to 2.4 billion people. [b] The faith represents approximately one-third of the world's population and is the largest religion in the world, [127] with the three largest groups of Christians being the Catholic Church , Protestantism , and the Eastern Orthodox Church . [129]