Christianity by country
As of the year 2015, Christianity had approximately 2.3 billion adherents out of a worldwide population of about 7.5 billion people.[1][2][3][4][lower-alpha 1] It represents nearly one-third of the world's population and is the largest religion in the world, with the three largest groups of Christians being the Catholic Church, Protestantism, and the Eastern Orthodox Church.[5] The largest Christian denomination is the Catholic Church, with 1.3 billion baptized members.[6] The second largest Christian branch is either Protestantism (if it is considered a single group), or the Eastern Orthodox Church (if Protestants are considered to be divided into multiple denominations).
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Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe, Russia, North America, South America, the Philippines, East Timor, Southern Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, and Oceania.[7] 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 and Russia.[8]
Christianity in multiple forms is the state religion of the following 16 nations: Argentina (Catholic Church),[9] Armenia (Armenian Apostolic Church), Tuvalu (Church of Tuvalu), Tonga (Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga), Costa Rica (Catholic Church),[10] Kingdom of Denmark (Danish National Church),[11] England (Church of England),[12] Greece (Eastern Orthodox Church), Georgia (Eastern Orthodox Church),[13][14] Iceland (Church of Iceland),[15] Liechtenstein (Catholic Church),[16] Malta (Catholic Church),[17] Monaco (Catholic Church),[18] Norway (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway),[19] Vatican City (Catholic Church),[20] and Zambia. Christianity used to be the state religion of the former Ethiopian Empire (adopted in 340 A.D. by the Kingdom of Aksum) prior to the government's overthrow. [21]
Lists
By country
Note: Population data are compiled using statistical science and are subject to observational error; these numbers should therefore be considered estimates only. The total number of Christians for each country is based on the number of people who are members of a Christian denomination or who identify themselves as Christian, plus their children. The number of people who actually believe in God or who regularly attend church is not addressed. People who mix Christianity with tribal religions are counted as Christians in this article. Most of the numbers for the Christian percentage of the population for each country were taken from the US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report, the CIA World Factbook, Joshua Project, Open doors, Pew Forum, and Adherents.com.
UN members and dependent territories
Country or Entity | Christians | % Christian | % Catholic | % Protestant/ Orthodox/ Other Christian | GDP/Capita PPP World Bank 2012 |
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6,250/8,000[22]-30,000[23] | 0.02%[23] | 1,400 | |||
580,000 | 17.0%[24] | 10% | 7% | 9,443 | |
380,000[25] | 2% | 1% | 1% | 8,515 | |
70,000 | 98.3% | 20% | 78% | ||
78,000 | 89.5% | 88.2%[26] | 1.3% | ||
17,094,000 | 75%[27] | 50% | 25% | 6,105 | |
15,000 | 90.5% | 3% | 87% | ||
66,000 | 74.0% | 10% | 64% | 19,964 | |
37,561,000 | 86%[28]-90%[29] | 71%[28]-77% | 13%-15%[28] | 12,034 | |
2,826,000 [30] | 97.9% [30] | 1% [30] | 96.9% [30] | 6,645 | |
98,000 | 88% | 80.8% | 7.8% | ||
12,201,600 | 52.1%[31] | 22.6% | 29.6% | 44,462 | |
5,940,000 | 67.3% | 57.9%[32] | 9.4% | 43,324 | |
280,000[33] | 3.1% | 3.1% | 10,624 | ||
335,975 | 95%[34] | 12.0% | 83.0% | 31,629 | |
185,000 | 15.0%[35] | 9.0% | 23,886 | ||
420,000 | 0.4%[36] | 0.4% | 1,883 | ||
244,000 | 74%[37] | 4.2% | 70% | 18,805 | |
5,265,000 | 55.4%[38] | 7.1% | 48.3% | 15,579 | |
6,860,000 | 65%[39] | 58%[39] | 7%[39] | 38,884 | |
247,000 | 76.7% | 40% | 36.7% | 7,529 | |
3,943,000 | 42.8% | 27% | 15% | 1,583 | |
44,000 | 64.7% | 15% | 50% | ||
7,000 | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.9% | 6,699 | |
9,730,000 | 89.0% | 76% | 13% | 5,281 | |
1,622,093[40] | 45.94%[40] | 15.19%[40] | 30.75%[40] | 9,235 | |
1,416,000 | 71.6% | 5% | 66% | 16,986 | |
180,770,000[41] | 90.0%[41] | 64.6%[41] | 22.2%[41] | 11,909 | |
23,000 | 94.0% | 85% | 9% | ||
45,000 | 11.0% | 53,348 | |||
6,364,000 | 85.0%[39] | 1% | 84%[39] | 15,933 | |
3,746,000 | 22.0% | 18% | 4% | 1,513 | |
7,662,000 | 75.0% | 60% | 15% | 560 | |
148,000 | 1.0% | 0.15% | 0.85% | 2,494 | |
13,390,000 | 65.0% | 38.4% | 26.3% | 2,324 | |
22,103,000 | 55% (2018)[42] | 29% (2018)[42] | 26% (2018)[42] | 42,693 | |
487,000 | 89.1%[23] | 78.7% | 10.4% | 4,430 | |
42,000 | 73.8% | ||||
2,302,000 | 80% | 29% | 51% | 857 | |
4,150,000[23] | 35.0% | 20% | 15% | 1,493 | |
9,900,000 | 68%[43] | 55% | 13% | 22,655 | |
31,220,000[44]-67,070,000[23] | 2.3%-4.0%[45] | 0.3% | 2% | 9,233 | |
43,560,000 | 92%[46] | 79% | 13% | 10,587 | |
15,000 | 2.1% | 1,230 | |||
19,000 | 86% | 16.8% | 69.6% | ||
3,409,000 | 90.7% | 50% | 40% | 4,426 | |
63,150,000 | 92% | 50% | 42% | 422 | |
3,912,000 | 83% | 69% | 14% | 12,943 | |
7,075,000 | 32.8% | 28.9% | 3.9% | 2,039 | |
4,107,000 | 90.1%[47] | 86.2% | 4.7% | 20,532 | |
6,670,000[23] | 59.2%[23] | 52.7% | 7.5% | ||
863,000 | 79%[48][49] | 1% | 78% | 30,597 | |
1,175,000 | 34%[39] | 29.0%[39] | 5.0%[39] | 26,426 | |
4,400,754[50] | 79% | 1% | 77.8%[51] | 41,388 | |
53,000 | 6.0% | 1% | 5% | 2,784 | |
59,000 | 88.7% | 61% | 27% | 12,643 | |
9,734,000 | 83% | 65% | 18% | 10,204 | |
1,152,000 | 99.1%[52] | 96.9% | 2.2% | ||
14,099,000 | 94.0% | 74% | 20% | 9,738 | |
9,029,000 | 10.0% [53] | 6,723 | |||
5,073,000 | 81.9% | 52.6% | 29.3% | 7,069 | |
683,000 | 88.7%[23] | 80.7% | 8.0% | 30,233 | |
3,577,000 | 67%[54] | 4% | 54% | 566 | |
310,000 | 45%[39] | 3%[39] | 42%[39] | 23,024 | |
994,000 | 82.7% | 25% | 57.7% | 5,246 | |
77,477,000 | 75% | 0.7% | 63.4% | 1,139 | |
3,000 | 94.3% | 94% | |||
33,000 | 95.4%[55] | 94% | |||
540,000 | 64.4% | 8.9% | 55.5% | 4,943 | |
3,909,000[56] | 70.7%[56] | 0.3% | 70.4% | 38,230 | |
36,700,000-40,000,000 | 51.1%[57]-58%[39]/63-66%[58] | 50-63%[59]/54%[39] | 4%[39] | 35,845 | |
1,081,000 | 88.0%[60] | 41.9% | 46.1% | 16,086 | |
79,000 | 4.2% [61] | 1,948 | |||
3,930,000 | 88.6%[62] | 0.9% | 87.7% | 5,902 | |
45,754,000 | 55.0%[63] | 27.2%[63] | 27.8%[63] | 40,394 | |
19,300,000 | 71.2%[64] | 13.1% | 58.1% | 2,048 | |
11,000,000 | 98% | 0.7% | 97.3% | 24,667 | |
55,000 | 96.6% | 96.6% | |||
101,000 | 97.3% | 53% | 45% | 10,827 | |
14,018,000 | 87% | 47% | 40% | 5,100 | |
1,032,000 | 8.9% [65] | 5% | 5% | 1,069 | |
165,000 | 10.0% | 10.0% | 1,192 | ||
434,000 | 58.0% | 8% | 50% | 3,400 | |
9,597,000 | 96.0% | 80.0% | 16.0% | 1,228 | |
6,660,000 | 88%[66] | 47% | 41% | 4,194 | |
835,000 | 11.8%[67] | 5.0% | 6.8% | 51,946 | |
5,254,179[68]- 6,501,000[39] | 52.87%[68]-65.0%[39] | 38.96%[68]-58.0%[39] | 13.91%[68] | 21,570 | |
273,300[69] | 75.1%[69] | 4.0%[69] | 71.0%[69] | 37,533 | |
30,000,000 | 2.3% [30] | 1.3% | 1.0% | 3,876 | |
24,000,000 | 10%[70] | 3% | 7% | 4,956 | |
380,000[71] | 0.4% | 0.4% | 11,395 | ||
944,000 | 3.0% | 3.0% | 4,246 | ||
3,992,000 (2016)[72] | 83.8% (2016)[72] | 78.2% (2016)[72] | 5.6% (2016)[72] | 42,662 | |
266,000 | 3.5% | 3.5% | 28,809 | ||
53,230,000[73] | 83% | 81.2% | 2% | 32,512 | |
1,784,000 | 65.3% | 2% | 63.3% | 7,083 | |
2,921,000 | 2.3%[74] | 1% | 1% | 35,204 | |
388,000 | 6.0%[75] | 6,148 | |||
4,150,000[23] | 26.2%[23] | 2.3% | 23.9% | 13,892 | |
34,774,000 | 85.1% | 23.4% | 61.7% | 1,761 | |
406,000 | 1.7% | ||||
14,601,000[23][76] | 27.6%[23] | 7.9% | 19.7% | 30,722 | |
458,000 | 15.0% | 3.2% | 12.8% | 49,001 | |
610,000[23]-944,000 | 11.4%[23]-17.0%[77] | 2,409 | |||
145,000 | 2.2% | 1% | 1% | 2,926 | |
1,570,000 | 70%[39]-80%[78] | 24.1%[39]-25.1%[78][79] | 46.8%[39]-54.9%[78] | 21,005 | |
1,600,000-1,800,000[80][81] | 38.0%-41.0% | 26% | 15% | 16,610 | |
1,876,000 | 90.0% | 45% | 45% | 1,963 | |
1,391,000 | 85.5%[82] | 85.5% | 655 | ||
170,000[23] | 2.7%[23] | 0.5% | 1.5% | 17,665 | |
30,000 | 84.4%[83] | 75.9% | 8.5% | ||
2,827,000 | 81.4%[84]-86.0%[39] | 77.2%[85]-80.0%[39] | 5.6%-6.0%[39] | 23,487 | |
360,000 | 72.4%[86] | 68.7% | 3.7% | 88,318 | |
8,260,000 | 41.0% | 978 | |||
12,538,000 | 79.9% | 902 | |||
2,820,000 | 9.2%[87] | 17,143 | |||
300 | 0.08% | 9,072 | |||
348,000 | 2.4% [88] | 1,214 | |||
400,000 | 91.6%[89] | 88.6% | 3.0% | 29,013 | |
5,000 | 0.14% | 2,604 | |||
418,000 | 32.2% | 15,649 | |||
107,780,000 | 92.4%[90] | 82.7% | 9.7% | 16,676 | |
106,000 | 95.4% | 3,824 | |||
3,480,000 | 95.3%[23] | 2.0% | 93.3% | 3,424 | |
30,000 | 82.6% [91] | 77.0[91] | |||
58,000 | 2.1% | 5,462 | |||
500,000 | 78.8%[92] | 3.4% | 72.4% | 14,206 | |
336,000 | 1% [93] | 5,193 | |||
13,121,000 | 56.1% | 28.4% | 27.7% | 1,024 | |
3,790,000 | 6.2% | 1% | 5.2% | ||
1,991,000 | 90.0% | 13.7% | 76.3% | 7,488 | |
269,000 | 0.9% | 0.1% | 0.8% | 1,484 | |
5,750,000-7,900,000 | 37% (2018) [94] - 43.8%[95] | 22% (registered, 2018)[94] - 23.7% | 15% (2018)[94]- 20.1%[95] | 42,938 | |
1,738,638 (2018)[96] | 37.0% (2018)[96] | 10.0% (2018)[96] | 27.0% (2018)[96] | 31,499 | |
5,217,000 | 84.6% | 58.8% | 25.8% | 4,072 | |
85,000 | 0.5% | 5% | 665 | ||
74,400,000-107,000,000 | 40% [97]- 58%[98] | 10–14,5% | 30–43,5% | 6,204 | |
1,334,000 | 65%[99] | 0.3% | 64.7% | 11,710 | |
3,844,000[100] | 76.7% (2018)[101][102] | 2.4%[103] | 73.8% (2018)[101][102] | 62,767 | |
180,000[23] | 6.5%[23] | 27,015 | |||
3,300,000 | 1.6%[104] | 0.8% | 0.8% | 2,891 | |
16,000 | 77.9% | 65% | 12.9% | 19,031 | |
3,057,000 | 92.0% | 80% | 12% | 16,615 | |
6,800,000 | 97% | 27% | 70% | 2,898 | |
6,260,000 | 96%[66] | 88% | 8% | 6,138 | |
27,635,000 | 87%[66] | 77% | 10% | 10,940 | |
86,500,000 | 85%[105] | 80% | 5% | 4,413 | |
50 | 100.0% | 100% | |||
36,090,000 | 94.3% | 86.3% | 8% | 21,903 | |
10,110,000[106] | 84.3%[107] | 81.0% | 3.3% | 25,305 | |
3,878,000 | 89%[108][109] | 56% | 33% | ||
263,000 | 13.8% | 86,507 | |||
18,067,000 | 98.0%[39] | 11.0%[39] | 87.0%[39] | 16,518 | |
66,000,000-99,775,000[110][111] | 46.6%[112]-77.0%[113][114] | <0.1% | 46.6%-77.0% | 23,549 | |
9,619,000 | 93.6% | 56.9% | 26% | 1,354 | |
31,000 | 91.6%[23] | 90.5% | 1.1% | ||
1,500,000 | 5%[115] | ||||
570,000 | 4.2% [116] | 1,944 | |||
7,260,000 | 91.0%[117] | 5.0% | 86.0% | 11,544 | |
80,000 | 94.7% | 82% | 15.2% | 27,008 | |
619,000-1,294,000 | 10%[118]-20.9%[119] | 1,359 | |||
900,000 | 18.0%[120] | 5.7% | 12% | 61,803 | |
4,730,000 | 80.0%[39] | 67.0%[39] | 13.0%[39] | 24,896 | |
1,610,000 | 68.0%[39] | 64.0%[39] | 4.0%[39] | 26,801 | |
1,000[121] | 0.01% | 0.0002% | 0.01% | ||
43,090,000 | 79.8%[122] | 5% | 75% | 11,440 | |
6,010,000[123] | 60.5%[124] | 30% | 30% | ||
33,000,000 | 71% [125]-72%[39] | 68%[39][126] | 2%[39] | 32,129 | |
1,531,000 | 7.5% | 6.1% | 1.4% | 6,247 | |
525,000 | 1.5%[127] | ||||
262,000 | 48.4%[128] | 21.6% | 26.8% | 8,858 | |
6,292,000 | 65%[129] | 2% | 63% | 42,217 | |
5,700,000 | 66.9%[130]-69.1%[131] | 36.5%[130]-37.9%[131] | 30.4%[130]-31.2%[131] | 55,246 | |
1,800,000[132] | 10.0%[23] | 2% | 8% | 5,436 | |
110,000[23] | 1.4% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 2,247 | |
31,342,000 | 61.4% [133] | 1,601 | |||
778,000 | 1.2% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 9,815 | |
1,966,000 | 29.0% | 1,051 | |||
84,000 | 81.0% | 16% | 65% | 5,026 | |
774,000 | 57.6%[134] | 21.5% | 33.4% | 26,647 | |
7,000 | 0.06% | 0.06% | 9,795 | ||
120,000[135]-310,000[136] | 0.2% | 17,651 | |||
466,000 | 9.0%[137] | 9% | 10,583 | ||
29,943,000 | 88.6% | 41.9% | 46.7% | 1,352 | |
34,830,000[138] | 81.9%[138] | 7.5% | 74.4% | 7,418 | |
940,000 | 9.0%[139] | 7% | 2% | 42,384 | |
33,200,000 | 59.3%[140] | 8.9% | 50% | 35,819 | |
213,000,000[141] | 65% (2019)[141]-73%[142] | 20%[141]-22.7%[142] | 45%[141]-48.5%[142] | 49,965 | |
1,941,000 | 58.1%[43] | 47% | 11% | 16,037 | |
710,000[23] | 2.6%[23] | 2.6%[23] | |||
28,340,000 | 88.0%[143] | 71% | 17% | 13,475 | |
7,038,000 | 8.2%[144] | 7% | 1% | 3,635 | |
25,000[145]-41,000[146] | 0.2% | 0.02% | 2,489 | ||
12,939,000 | 95.5%[147] | 20.2% | 72.3% | 1712 | |
12,500,000 | 87.0%[148] | 17% | 63% | 559 | |
Europe | 565,560,000[4] | 76.2%[4] | 35.0%[149] | 41.2%[4] | - |
Latin America and the Caribbean | 531,280,000[4] | 90.0%[4] | 70%[150] | 20%[151] | - |
Africa | 526,016,926 [4] | 62.7%[4] | 21.0%[149] | 41.7%[4] | - |
Asia | 285,120,000[4]-375,905,000[152] | 7.0%[4]-12.0%[152] | 3.0%[149]-5.1%[152] | 4.0%[4]-6.8%[152] | - |
North America | 266,630,000[4] | 77.4%[4] | 22.0%[149] | 55.4% | - |
Oceania | 25,754,000[153] | 73.3%[153] | 38.9%[153] | 34.4%[153] | - |
Middle East-North Africa | 12,000,000–16,000,000[154] | 3.8%[4]-5.0%[155] | 2.0%[149]-2.6% | 1.8%[4]-2.3% | - |
Total | 2,431,209,718[152] | 33.4%[152] | 16.9%[152] | 16.5%[152] | - |
UN non member permanent observer states
note: One is a generally recognized sovereign state, while the other is a state with substantial, but limited, recognition
Country | Christians | % Christian | overall % |
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173,000 | 6.0%[156] | 6% | |
836 | 100.0% | 100% |
Non UN member or observer states with substantial, but limited recognition
Note: Includes non-United Nations members or observers with substantial, but limited recognition
Country | Christians | % Christian |
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150,000 | 8.3% | |
200 | 0.03% | |
902,000 | 3.9% |
widely or fully unrecognized Non UN member or observer states
Country | Christians | % Christian |
---|---|---|
130,000 | 68.0% | |
143,000 | 98.8%[157] | |
69,000 | 96.4% | |
510,000 | 95.0% |
Top ten
On the left: a list of the top ten countries by largest number of Christians. On the right: a list of the top ten countries by highest percentage of the population that is Christian.[141][158]
Rank | Country | Christians | % Christian | Country | % Christian | Christians |
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1 | 213,000,000 | 65% | 100% | 800 | ||
2 | 175,700,000 | 91.4% | 99% | 21,490,000 | ||
3 | 122,500,000 | 95% | 99% | 6,860,000 | ||
4 | 117,640,000 | 78% | 99% | 100,000 | ||
5 | 110,644,000 | 85% | 98.5% | 3,090,000 | ||
6 | 92,281,000 | 52.8% | 97.6% | 2,280,000 | ||
7 | 68,558,000 | 95.6% | 97.5% | 50,000 | ||
8 | 54,978,000 | 64.5% | 97.5% | 3,570,000 | ||
9 | 54,070,000 | 91.5% | 97.5% | 13,090,000 | ||
10 | 47,200,000 | 57.3% | 93% | 10,000,000 |
Countries by highest percentage of the population that is Christian with at least 10 million Christians
|
Percent (%) Christians | Number of countries | Population |
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100 | 2 | 850 |
90–99 | 49 | 739,568,000 |
80–89 | 28 | 312,790,200 |
70–79 | 20 | 599,319,000 |
60–69 | 11 | 177,608,000 |
50–59 | 16 | 132,349,929 |
40–49 | 3 | 13,594,000 |
30–39 | 6 | 15,497,000 |
20–29 | 5 | 23,657,000 |
10–19 | 10 | 43,409,000 |
1–9 | 34 | 124,755,000 |
0–1 | 13 | 1,823,750 |
In total, 126 countries have a Christian majority, while 71 countries have a Christian minority. According to Pew Research study, of the 232 countries and territories, 157 have Christian majorities.[159]
Population growth
According to Christian Today, there were 2.4 billion Christians around the world in 2015[160] and according to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, if current trends continue, Christianity will remain the world's largest religion by year 2050. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. Many charismatic movements are growing in Africa, Latin America, Muslim world,[161] and Asia.[162][163][164][165][166]
Tradition | Followers | % of the Christian population | % of the world population | Follower dynamics | Dynamics in- and outside Christianity |
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Catholic Church | 1,200,000,000 | 52.4 | 15.9 | ||
Protestantism | 800,640,000 | 34.9 | 11.6 | ||
Orthodoxy | 260,380,000 | 11.4 | 3.8 | ||
Other Christianity | 28,430,000 | 1.3 | 0.4 | ||
Christianity | 2,289,450,000 | 100 | 31.7 |
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Churches by Country. |
- List of Christian denominations by number of members
- Catholic Church by country
- Eastern Orthodoxy by country
- Oriental Orthodoxy by country
- Protestantism by country
- List of the largest Protestant denominations
Other religions:
- Ahmadiyya by country
- Buddhism by country
- Hinduism by country
- Irreligion by country
- Islam by country
- Jewish population by country
- Judaism by country
- Sikhism by country
General:
Notes
- Current sources are in general agreement that Christians make up about 33% of the world's population—slightly over 2.4 billion adherents in mid-2015.
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