Data: World Christianity in 2025

Source: Center for the Study of Global Christianity

Every year, the International Bulletin of Mission Research presents an annual snapshot of global Christianity, a one-page version of which can be downloaded for free. The table provides a statistical overview of the world’s 2.6 billion Christians and their activities.

This year’s focus is geographical, covering major religious trends in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Northern America, the Middle East, and Oceania over the last 125 years.

In 2025, the Global South is home to 69% of all Christians in the world, projected to reach 78% by 2050. Africa became the continent with the most Christians in 2018, passing Latin America (which passed Europe in 2014).

Read more. Usually the article is behind a paywall but currently this one is not. Take a look. You might want to bookmark the one-page table.

Wonder what might happen after 2050? CSGC says they will have 2075 projections in the Compact Atlas of Global Christianity, due to be published later this year.

Our friends at Operation World, in partnership with Lausanne, have also pulled out some interesting projections for the Church in 2050 and highlighted them in one of their weekly bulletin inserts. Learn more.

Looking for something easier to digest? See the great collection of mission infographics from GlobalCAST which we recently featured.

Readers from the U.S. might also be interested in a recent Barna analysis of trends in faith and culture likely to emerge in 2025.

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