Saturday, March 19, 2005

The State of Christianity in 2005

from the Friday Fax... The State of Christianity in 2005
In response to many requests, here is the State of Christianity in 2005. It is
based on secular and Christian sources, and probably the world's broadest survey
of such information, and is published every January by David B. Barrett
(Professor of Missiometrics at the World Evangelization Research Center in
Richmond, and publisher of the World Christian Encyclopedia) and Todd M. Johnson
from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton.

I love this! I used it last Spring as part of our summer mission team prep material, just to help kids see how big the world really is. Take a look at some of those stats, it's pretty crazy.
On a side note, I tried to make it a little easier to read by repeating the header info in bold. Ahh, those were glory days - writing tables in HTML.


















Year

1970

2000

Annual growth rate (%)

Mid 2005

Prognosis 2025

Global population

3,692,495,000

6,070,581,000

1.23

6,453,628,000

7,851,455,000

Urban population

1,362,294,000

2,878,859,000

1.87

3,158,016,000

4,572,884,000

Population under 15 years old

1,379,442,000

1,828,710,000

1.74

1,829,328,000

1,900,868,000

Illiterates

836,256,000

990,317,000

1.72

1,078,271,000

934,703,000

Cities over 100,000

2,400

4,050

2.13

4,500

6,500

Cities over 1,000,000

161

402

1.82

440

650

Urban slum dwellers

260 million

700 million

3.47

830 million

1,600 million

Year

1970

2000

Annual growth rate (%)

Mid 2005

Prognosis 2025

Christians of all kinds

1,234,339,000

2,000,836,000

1.31

2,135,783,000

2,640,665,000

Muslims

549,125,000

1,194,396,000

1.93

1,313,984,000

1,825,283,000

Agnostics

532,338,000

762,028,000

0.17

768,598,000

806,884,000

Hindus

462,379,000

808,104,000

1.49

870,047,000

1,065,868,000

Year

1970

2000

Annual growth rate (%)

Mid 2005

Prognosis 2025

Buddhists

232,667,000

362,374,000

0.89

378,809,000

457,048,000

Atheists

165,391,000

147,212,000

0.58

151,548,000

151,742,000

New Religionists

78,324,000

103,846,000

0.81

108,132,000

122,188,000

Ethnic Religions

163,477,000

239,108,000

1.40

256,341,000

270,210,000

Sikhs

10,618,000

23,509,000

1.54

25,374,000

31,985,000

Jews

15,097,000

14,401,000

1.01

15,146,000

16,895,000

Year

1970

2000

Annual growth rate (%)

Mid 2005

Prognosis 2025

Non-Christians

2,458,156,000

4,069,745,000

1.19

4,317,845,000

5,210,790,000

Unaffiliated Christians

105,626,000

105,372,000

0.81

109,711,000

112,779,000

Great Commission Christians

277,153,000

650,094,000

1.14

688,034,000

853,179,000

Year

1970

2000

Annual growth rate (%)

Mid 2005

Prognosis 2025

Church attenders

885,777,000

1,359,420,000

1.04

1,431,573,000

1,760,568,000

Evangelicals

93,358,000

224,790,000

2.21

250,776,000

348,648,000

Pentecostals & Charismatics

72,223,000

526,916,000

2.24

588,502,000

798,320,000

Martyrs per Year

377,000

160,000

1.10

169,000

210,000

Year

1970

2000

Annual growth rate (%)

Mid 2005

Prognosis 2025

Members by Ecclesiastical Megabloc

Anglicans

47,409,000

75,164,000

1.18

79,719,000

108,257,000

Independents

96,926,000

379,085,000

2.39

426,672,000

612,670,000

Orthodox

139,646,000

214,436,000

0.47

219,501,000

235,834,000

Protestants

211,052,000

347,762,000

1.56

375,814,000

491,084,000

Roman Catholics

665,475,000

1,055,651,000

1.17

1,118,992,000

1,336,338,000

Christian workers (nationals)

2,350,000

5,104,000

0.97

5,357,000

6,500,000

Year

1970

2000

Annual growth rate (%)

Mid 2005

Prognosis 2025

Missionaries

240,000

420,.000

1.07

443,000

550,000

Church members' income (US$)

4,100 billion

15,680 billion

2.04

17,350 billion

26,000 billion

Computers used by Christians

1,000

328 million

6.05

440 million

1,2 billion

Christian magazines

23,000

35,000

4.2

43,000

100,000

Monthly listeners/viewers of Christian Radio/TV

750,000,000

2,150,000,000

2.30

2,409,000,000

3,800,000,000

Global missions plans since A.D.30

510

1,500

2.77

1,720

3,000

Year

1970

2000

Annual growth rate (%)

Mid 2005

Prognosis 2025

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