2006 State of Christianity

Alright, I've spent the better part of two hours trying to get html tables to work. Two hours would be worth it though for this information.

It's the ...... 2006 State of Christianity.... You all that have been around SPACE for a while know that I love this thing. It is such a wealth of information and some of the results are eye-popping to a lot of people.

Anyway, in lieu of actually displaying it here, which is what I was actually trying to do, see the full results here at the Center for Global Christianity, associated with Gordon-Conwell Seminary.

Here is some of the good stuff, but please, you must check the real thing out yourself...

Related - The State of Christianity 2005 - somehow I got the tables to work last year...

Global Population:
1900 - 1,619,625,000
1970 - 3,692,495,000
2000 - 6,070,581,000
2006 - 6,529,426,000
2025 - 7,851,455,000

Urban dwellers
1900 - 232,695,000
1970 - 1,362,295,000
2000 - 2,878,861,000
2006 - 3,252,255,000
2025 - 4,572,885,000

Nonliterates
1900 - 777,475,000
1970 - 836,256,000
2000 - 990,317,000
2006 - 1,095,879,000
2025 - 934,703,000

Metropolises (over 100,000 population)
1900 - 300
1970 - 2,400
2000 - 4,050
2006 - 4,500
2025 - 6,500

Megacities (over 1 million population)
1900 - 20
1970 - 161
2000 - 402
2006 - 450
2025 - 650

Urban poor
1900 - 100 million
1970 - 650 million
2000 - 1,400 million
2006 - 1,680 million
2025 - 3,000 million

Urban slumdwellers
1900 - 20 million
1970 - 260 million
2000 - 700 million
2006 - 850 million
2025 - 1,600 million