Christianity Today - General Statistics and Facts of Christianity

Christianity is ranked as the largest religion in the world today with approximately 2 billion adherents.
Adherents.com (2005)

USA adherents -159 million in 2001
UK adherents - 51 million in 1997
ReligionFacts.com

33% of the world's population is considered to be Christian.
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2006)

USA - 224,457,000 (85%)
Brazil - 139,000,000 (93%)
Mexico - 86,120,000 (99%)
Adherents.com (2005)

There are approximately 38,000 Christian denominations in the world. This statistic takes into consideration cultural distinctions of denominations in different countries.
World Christian Encyclopedia (2001)

The Major Denominations:
Roman Catholic - The Roman Catholic Church denomination is the largest Christian group in the world today with more than a billion followers constituting about half of the world's Christian population.
Eastern Orthodox - Approximately 225 million people worldwide are Orthodox Christians.
Protestant - There are approximately 500 million Protestants in the world.
ReligionFacts.com

Today in America, about 75% of adults identify themselves as Christian. In comparison, the next largest religions in America are Islam and Judaism. Combined they represent only about one to two percent of the United States population.
ReligiousTolerance.org

However, there are more than 1500 different Christian faith groups in America.
ReligiousTolerance.org

Of the approximate 2 billion Christians in the world today, 648 million (11% of the world's population) are Evangelicals or Bible believing Christians. Evangelicals have grown from only 3 million in AD 1500, to 648 million worldwide, with 54% being Non-Whites.
Frontier Harvest Ministries

In the unevangelized world, there are 20,500 full-time Christian workers and 10,200 foreign missionaries.

In the evangelized non-Christian world, there are 1.31 million full-time Christian workers.

In the Christian world, there are 306,000 foreign missionaries to other Christian lands. Also in the Christian world, 4.19 million full-time Christian workers (95%) work within the Christian world.
Frontier Harvest Ministries

Approximately 83 million Bibles are distributed globally per year.
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2009)

There are approximately 6 million books about Christianity in print today.
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2006)

An average of 171,000 Christians worldwide are martyred for their faith per year.
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2006)

More Statistics of Christianity Today:

• Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
• ReligiousTolerance.org
• ReligionFacts.com
• Harvest Frontier Missions
• Adherents.com