Statistics: The 21st century world





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How many unreached countries are there? Where are missions resources going?

Global population16,986,951,000
Births per minute266
Deaths per minute108
Population of unreached people groups (billions)2.842
Five largest countries (populations in millions)1
China1,346
India1,241
USA312
Indonesia238
Brazil197
Major Religions3
Christians 2.3 billion
Muslims1.6 billion
Hindus952 million
Nonreligious658 million
Buddhists468 million
Chinese folk-religionists458 million
Ethnoreligionists269 million
Major traditional branches of Christianity3
Roman Catholics1.2 billion
Protestants426 million
Independents378 million
Orthodox271 million
Anglicans88 million
Christians by continent3
Africa475 million
Asia354 million
Europe559 million
Latin America543 million
Northern America231 million
Oceania24 million
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 C1,999,564,000
World B2,426,110,000
World A1,629,375,000
By countries
World C countries141
   Population1,694,733,000
World B countries59
   Population3,755,012,000
World A "unreached" countries38
   Population605,304,000
Global Christian finance (in U.S. dollars)5
Est. personal income of church members$15.5 trillion
Giving to Christian causes,$280 billion
Ecclesiastical crime (embezzlement and other)$16 billion
Income of global foreign missions$16 billion
Christian workers
National workers (all denominations)12 million3
Number of women in full-time ministry worldwide 4.4 million6
Foreign missionaries443,0006
Scripture distribution (all sources)
Bibles per year100 million7
Languages with at least a portion of Scripture2,2386
Christian evangelism
Evangelism hours per year162 billion3
Disciple-opportunities per capita per year1663


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