Worldwide Religion Statistics 2020

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Worldwide religion statistics 2020. As you will see the pie chart only mentions percentages of the world s population whose religiously related self admission places them in each category. Their methods must have been various unique but certainly the purpose must. Ongoing shift to the global south international bulletin of mission research january 2020. Definitions of categories are as given and explained in david b.

Indented categories form part of and are included in un indented categories above them. Population population growth density rate of natural increase population by sex and age groups fertility life expectancy age dependency ratios sex ratio. The world religion database has extensive data on the world s 234 countries and 22 united nations regions. The countries can be further defined by 1 800 major cities and 3 000 provinces.

World christianity and mission 2020. The recent 2019 revision of the un world population prospects 2020 2100 is now integrated. It is one of the fastest growing religions and was founded about 1400 years before in saudi arabia which is considered to be the largest oil producing country. As a percentage of the world total the christian population increased from 22 7 to 32 4 with a projected figure of 33 8 for 2025.

A united nations special expert on freedom of religion says its time for the world s leading religions to submit to the authority of the un and its human rights. Field values are determined through extensive research and are verified for consistency of definition and interpretation and are implemented consistently on a worldwide basis. Barrett world christian ency. Since innumerable times when it was not a global village the demographic study of a group of people must have been there no matter a group is living in the top of the mountains or in nook of this earth everywhere.

Christians remained the largest religious group in the world in 2015 making up nearly a third 31 of earth s 7 3 billion people according to a new pew research center demographic analysis but the report also shows that the number of christians in what many consider the religion s heartland the continent of europe is in decline.