Christianity By the Numbers
While no numbers such as these can be perfect, these are some charts that I keep up with using multiple sources, including the CIA, Religious Tolerance.com, patheos.com, and others. I thought I would share them. Click on the charts to enlarge.
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Pie Charts: Religion & Christianity by Numbers & Percentages | eChurch Christian Blog on 27 Jun 2010 at 10:36 pm #
[...] Patton of Parchment & Pen has just posted six useful pie-charts. The first two depict the percentage split between the world [...]
Stuart on 27 Jun 2010 at 10:39 pm #
Brilliant resource thank you for posting it!
Chuck on 28 Jun 2010 at 8:37 am #
Great charts. Have some questions about the last two though. There are some inconsistencies between the numbers and the percentages. For example, Presby/Reformed and Methodists are of the same size numerically, but differ in size on a percentage basis. And the Presby/Reformed are greater in size numerically than the Lutherans and Anglicans/Episcopal, yet are shown as smaller than both in percentages. So, I guess the specific question is…which chart is the more accurate and indicative. Or am I missing something?
casey on 28 Jun 2010 at 1:42 pm #
Great charts! Any information on major trends? Growth, decline, geographies?
Michael T. on 29 Jun 2010 at 1:13 am #
dispensationalists and their charts…
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[...] across planet earth, possibly reaching the 2 billion mark now, which Patton testifies to himself on his own blog. Even if that number were a bit high, and even if we sliced that number to only consider those who [...]
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Vladimir on 30 Jun 2010 at 12:38 pm #
Its interesting that of the percentages only 34 % are professing Christians, whereas 66(6) % are lost. Hell truly has enlarged herself.
Vladimir
Michael T. on 01 Jul 2010 at 5:40 pm #
Vlad,
I wonder how 34% Christian compares to things historically. I’m going to guess that it’s probably not as bad as it seems. In the Middle Ages for instance Europe was Christian, but the entire rest of the known world at the time (Africa and Asia) wasn’t. Today we are seeing a reversal where Europe has become largely secular while Christianity it experiencing an explosion in Africa and parts of Asia.
Ray on 03 Jul 2010 at 1:48 am #
Thanks for the graphics!
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