"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 |
1.428 billion -- India |
1.425 billion -- China |
339.9 million -- USA |
277.5 million -- Indonesia |
241.4 million -- Pakistan |
Statistics on world religions3 |
2.6 billion Christians |
2 billion Muslims |
1.2 billion Hindus |
658 million nonreligious |
506 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 |
1.3 billion Roman Catholics |
800 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 |
Chart showing the status of Bible translation availability
"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
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