Africa overtakes South America, becomes continent with largest Christian population

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New data, released earlier this year,
announced that Africa holds the largest
number of Christians in the world. This
moves the reigning champs of the title,
Latin America into 2nd place.
The Center for the Study of Global
Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary produced an infographic which
breaks down the world’s Christian
population by continent. The results show
Africa on top with 631 million Christian
residents, Latin America in 2nd place with
601 million Christians, and Europe in 3rd
place with 571 million Christians.
CBS News reports the African countries with
the highest percentages of Christian
residents are Zambia (95.5%), the Republic
of Seychelles (94.7%), and Rowanda (93.6).
A 2017 survey by the same group had
Africa at 582 million Christians and Latin
America at 591 million. This means Africa
has seen the births or conversions of nearly
50 million people in the last year. Similarly,
Latin America has increased by about 10
million.
North America is 5th on the list as far as
population goes, with 277 million. They are
however in 3rd place in percentage of the
population, with 76% claiming christianity
as their religion.
According to the Center for the Study of
Global Christianity, data was obtained from
the World Christian Database and
“Christians” include Catholics, Protestants,
Independents and Orthodox. Excluded are
“unaffiliated” Christians and “double-
counted.”
They do divide the denominations, however,
which is distributed as such:
Catholics have the highest percentage of
followers worldwide (49 percent of
Christians), followed by Protestants (22
percent), Independents (17 percent), and
Orthodox (12 percent).
It is important to note that while Africa has
pulled ahead of Latin America in sheer
numbers, by percentage, Latin America still
lays claim to the highest percentage of
Christian citizens in the world, at 92%.
In total, Christians make up 31% of the
world’s population, just under one-third at
2.3 billion. 1.8 billion people in the world
are Muslim and 1.1 billion people are
Hindu. There are 1.2 billion people who do
not associate with any religion.

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