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Christianity is reportedly the fastest growing religion in Iran with an average annual rate of 5.2%. [166] A 2015 study estimates between 100,000 and 500,000 believers Christians from a Muslim background living in Iran, most of them evangelical Christians. [113]
Christian population % of the world population Follower dynamics Dynamics inside and outside Christianity Catholicism: 1,200,000,000 52.4 15.9 Growing Stable Protestantism: 800,640,000 34.9 11.6 Growing Growing Orthodoxy: 260,380,000 11.4 3.8 Growing Growing Other Christianity: 28,430,000 1.3 0.4 Growing Growing Christianity 2,289,450,000 100 ...
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
According to some Christian groups, there may be as many as 3 million Christians in Nepal, constituting up to 10% of the country's population. [5] A report by Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary identified the Nepali church the fastest growing in the world. [6]
According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Hinduism (1.52%) is one of the six fastest-growing religions in the world, with high birth rates in India being cited as the major reasons of the Hindu population growth. [293] Hinduism is a growing religion in countries such as Ghana, [294] Russia, [295] and the United States.
There are estimates that say Christianity is the fastest growing religion in China. [2] There were some 4 million before 1949 (3 million Catholics and 1 million Protestants). [ 3 ] In the early 2000s, there were approximately 38 million Protestants and 10–12 million Catholics , with a smaller number of Orthodox Christians . [ 2 ]
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
Israel has a population of 182,000 Christians. As of 2021, it was the only growing Christian community in the Middle East. [7] [8] In 2019, 77.5% of Christians in Israel were Arab Christians, representing 7.2% of the total Arab population in the country. [128] Israeli Christian population pyramid in 2021