sending...Africa now has more than 500 million Christians making up 24% of the world’s Christian. According to the Pew Research, Nigeria comes top in Africa with an estimated 80 million Christians. More on Nigeria here: Nigeria wins on the African Country with the most Christians front. 9 other countries with their estimated Christian populations are shown below. DR Congo stands out with a whopping 95% of the population Christian.
According to Pew “The majority of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa are Protestant (57%), as broadly defined in this report; this includes members of African Independent Churches and Anglicans. About one-in-three Christians in the region (34%) are Catholic. Orthodox Christians account for about 8% of the region’s Christians, and other Christians make up the remaining 1%.”
What is interesting though is that, Africa and other places that were not traditionally Christian 50 to 100 years ago are showing huge growth whilst Europe, the traditional home of Christianity is beginning to lag behind. Pew states that the proportion of Europeans and Americans who who are Christian has “dropped from 95% in 1910 to 76% in 2010 in Europe as a whole, and from 96% to 86% in the Americas as a whole.”
Don’t Europeans and Americans do “Christianity” anymore?
More of the findings of Global Christianity are below: Full report.
