"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 | |
| Major 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 traditional 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 | |
| Est. 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 | |
| National 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 |
"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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