"Worship in all the earth is the end goal, and joining God in His mission that all may know Him is what global evangelism is all about." -- DeAnn T., Nazarene Bible College student
| 7.8 million -- Global population1 |
| 256 births per minute |
| 120 deaths per minute |
| 2.84 billion -- population of unreached people groups 2 |
| Five largest countries1 |
| 1.43 billion -- China |
| 1.38 billion -- India |
| 331 million -- USA |
| 274 million -- Indonesia |
| 220 million -- Pakistan |
| Statistics on world religions3 |
| 2.3 billion Christians |
| 1.6 billion Muslims |
| 952 million Hindus |
| 658 million nonreligious |
| 468 million Buddhists |
| 458 million Chinese folk-religionists |
| 269 ethnoreligionists |
Note: The above numbers do not reflect "true believers" or committed followers and practitioners of the various religious tradition. The numbers simply reflect how people have self-identified. |
| Major branches of Christianity3 |
| 1.2 billion Roman Catholics |
| 426 million Protestants |
| 378 million independents |
| 271 million Orthodox |
| 88 million Anglicans |
| Christians by continent3 |
| 475 million -- Africa |
| 354 million -- Asia |
| 559 million -- Europe |
| 543 million -- Latin America |
| 231 million -- Northern America |
| 24 million -- Oceania |
| ABCs of Global Missions |
| World A |
| Unreached people — 24% of the world's population; receives one-half of 1% of dollars given to Christian missions |
| World B |
| Evangelized non-Christians — 43% of the world's population; receives 5% of dollars given to Christian missions |
| World C |
| Professing Christians — 33% of the world's population; receives 94.5% of dollars given to Christian missions |
| Evangelization by Worlds A, B, and C |
| By individuals |
| World C -- 1,999,564,000 |
| World B -- 2,426,110,000 |
| World A -- 1,629,375,000 |
| By countries |
| World C countries -- 141 |
| Population -- 1,694,733,000 |
| World B countries -- 59 |
| Population -- 3,755,012,000 |
| World A "unreached" countries -- 38 |
| Population -- 605,304,000 |
| Global Christian finance (in U.S. dollars)5 |
| Estimated personal income of church members: $15.5 trillion |
| Giving to Christian causes: $280 billion |
| Ecclesiastical crime (embezzlement and other): $16 billion |
| Given to global foreign missions: $16 billion |
| Christian workers |
| Indigeneous workers (all denominations): 12 million3 |
| Number of women in full-time ministry worldwide: 4.4 million6 |
| Foreign/expatriate missionaries: 443,0006 |
| Scripture distribution (all sources) |
| Bibles per year: 100 million7 |
| Languages with at least a portion of Scripture: 2,2386 |
| Christian evangelism |
| Evangelism hours per year: 162 billion3 |
| Disciple-opportunities per capita per year: 1663 |
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"We still have a long way to go in reaching unreached people groups but the progress missionaries have made over the past two centuries is an encouraging sign that it can be completed. -- Robert Brown, Nazarene Bible College student
| What can you do to reach those still unreached? [ more ] |
-- Howard Culbertson
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