Tuesday, April 01, 2008

State of Christianity - 2008

The State of Christianity, a yearly run of statistics from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. For those of you that love data, this should make your week.

See the 2008 one page report here. Below are some of the fun ones I've been tracking [although I'm missing some of the years.]

Global Population:
1900 - 1,619,625,000
1970 - 3,692,495,000
2000 - 6,070,581,000
2005 - 6,453,628,000
2006 - 6,529,426,000
2008 - 6,691,484,000

Urban dwellers
1900 - 232,695,000
1970 - 1,362,295,000
2000 - 2,878,861,000
2005 - 3,158,016,000
2006 - 3,252,255,000
2008 - 3,368,561,000

Nonliterates
1900 - 777,475,000
1970 - 836,256,000
2000 - 990,317,000
2005 - 1,078,271,000
2006 - 1,095,879,000
2008 - 1,094,278,000

Metropolises (over 100,000 population)
1900 - 300
1970 - 2,400
2000 - 4,050
2005 - 4,500
2006 - 4,500
2008 - 4,700

Megacities (over 1 million population)
1900 - 20
1970 - 161
2000 - 402
2005 - 440
2006 - 450
2008 - 470

Urban poor
1900 - 100 million
1970 - 650 million
2000 - 1,400 million
2006 - 1,680 million
2008 - 1,790 million

Urban slumdwellers
1900 - 20 million
1970 - 260 million
2000 - 700 million
2005 - 830 million
2006 - 850 million
2008 - 910 million

Average Christian martyrs per year
1900 - 34,400
1970 - 377,000
2000 - 160,000
2005 - 169,000
2008 - 175,000

Unevangelized population
1900 - 879,672,000
1970 - 1,638,575,000
2000 - 1,722,254,000
2008 - 1,871,208,000

Unevangelized as % of world
1900 - 54.3
1970 - 44.3
2000 - 28.3
2008 - 28.0

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