{"id":10758,"date":"2022-01-26T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10758"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:17:32","slug":"data-annual-statistics-on-the-status-of-global-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10758","title":{"rendered":"Data: Annual Statistics on the Status of Global Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: The Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you need to know&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How many Christians are there in the world?<\/li><li>What percentage of the world population are they?<\/li><li>How many live in cities?<\/li><li>How many live in Africa? Asia? Latin America?<\/li><li>How many denominations are there? How many churches?<\/li><li>How many mission agencies are there? How many missionaries?<\/li><li>How much money is given to global foreign missions?<\/li><li>How many people are unevangelized?<\/li><li>How many people belong to other world religions or are unreligous?<\/li><li>How many non-Christians know a Christian?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year the staff of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity publish an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gordonconwell.edu\/center-for-global-christianity\/resources\/status-of-global-christianity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">annual statistical table<\/a> which is their most-cited resource. It\u2019s just a one-page summary. Check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a more detailed picture with explanations, commentary, and ministry suggestions, you\u2019ll have to pick up the related article <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/23969393211046993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Christianity and Religions 2022: A Complicated Relationship<\/a> in the <em>International Bulletin of Mission Research<\/em> (purchase or subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Do you need to know&#8230; How many Christians are there in the world? What percentage of the world population are they? How many live in cities? How many live in Africa? Asia? Latin America? How many denominations are there? How many churches? How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data: Annual Statistics on the Status of Global Christianity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10759,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions\/10759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}