{"id":13586,"date":"2025-01-29T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13586"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:54:14","slug":"data-world-christianity-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13586","title":{"rendered":"Data: World Christianity in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: Center for the Study of Global Christianity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s 2.6 billion Christians and their activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a>. 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Looking for something easier to digest? See the great collection of mission infographics from GlobalCAST<\/a> which we recently featured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s 2.6 billion Christians and their activities. This year\u2019s focus is geographical, covering major … Continue reading Data: World Christianity in 2025<\/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-13586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586","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=13586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13588,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586\/revisions\/13588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}