Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| version_2020_country | Agnostics who know Christians | Agnostics who know Christians. |
| version_2020_country | All languages count | Count of all ISO languages spoken as the primary language of peoples in this country. |
| version_2020_country | Anglicans | Number of Affiliated Anglicans in this country. Anglicans are Christians related to the Anglican Communion, tracing their origin back to the ancient British (Celtic) and English churches; including Anglican dissidents or schismatics in the Western world. |
| version_2020_country | Atheist % | Number of atheists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. Atheists are militantly anti-religious or anti-Christian agnostics, secularists, or marxists. |
| version_2020_country | Atheists | Number of Atheists in this country's population. Atheists are persons professing atheism, skepticism, impiety, disbelief or irreligion, or Marxist-Leninist Communism regarded as a political faith, or other quasi-religions, and who abstain from religious activities and have severed all religious affiliation; and others opposed, hostile or militantly opposed to all religion (anti-religious); dialectical materialists, militant non-believers, anti-religious humanists, skeptics. |
| version_2020_country | Baha'i % | Number of Baha’is as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. Baha’is are followers of the Baha’i World Faith, founded by Baha’u’llah, since 1844. In government censuses Baha’is are usually counted as Muslims or Hindus and not shown separately. |
| version_2020_country | Baha'is | Number of Baha’is in this country's population. Baha’is are followers of the Baha’i World Faith, founded by Baha’u’llah, since 1844. In government censuses Baha’is are usually counted as Muslims or Hindus and not shown separately. |
| version_2020_country | Baptisms pa | This is the number of new baptisms each year in this country. |
| version_2020_country | Bible achievement % | Bibles actually distributed over the past 20 years as a percentage of the desired goal for this country. |
| version_2020_country | Bible goal | Goal for the number of Bibles to be in place in this country. Equals the number of Christian families. |
| version_2020_country | Bible goal pa | The number of Bibles that must be dispensed each year to meet distribution goals in this country. |
| version_2020_country | Bible languages count | Count of ISO languages with a full Bible. |
| version_2020_country | Bible Other pa | Number of Bibles distributed by agencies other than the United Bible Societies (UBS), each year in this country. |
| version_2020_country | Bible Total pa | Total number of Bibles distributed in this country by both the United Bible Societies (UBS) and other agencies. |
| version_2020_country | Bible UBS pa | Number of Bibles distributed each year by the United Bible Societies (UBS) in this country. (5 year average). |
| version_2020_country | Bibles in place | Bibles distributed in the past 20 yrs (= in place). |
| version_2020_country | Birth % | Birth rate for this country as a percentage per year. Source material is expressed as cases per 1000. Primary source: United Nations 2019. |
| version_2020_country | Buddhist % | Number of Buddhists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. Followers of the Buddha, include: (a) Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) or Northern Buddhism; (b) Theravada (Teaching of the Elders) or Southern Buddhism, stigmatized by Mahayanists as Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle, i.e. available to fewer people), actually the older, purer form of Buddhism; (c) Vajrayana, Mantrayana, Guhyamantrayana, or Tantrayana (Esoteric Vehicle), known as Tantrism, Shingon or Lamaism; and (d) traditional Buddhist sects, but excluding neo-Buddhist new religions or religious movements. |
| version_2020_country | Buddhists | Number of Buddhists in this country's population. Followers of the Buddha, including: (a) Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) or Northern Buddhism; (b) Theravada (Teaching of the Elders) or Southern Buddhism, stigmatized by Mahayanists as Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle, i.e. available to fewer people), actually the older, purer form of Buddhism; (c) Vajrayana, Mantrayana, Guhyamantrayana, or Tantrayana (Esoteric Vehicle), known as Tantrism, Shingon or Lamaism; and (d) traditional Buddhist sects, but excluding neo-Buddhist new religions or religious movements. |
| version_2020_country | Buddhists who know Christians | Buddhists who know Christians. |
| version_2020_country | Catholics | Number of Affiliated Catholics in this country. Affiliated Catholics are defined in this Encyclopedia as baptized Catholics plus catechumens. |
| version_2020_country | Charismatics | Number of Charismatics (in non-Pentecostal churches) in this country. These are baptized members affiliated to non-pentecostal denominations who have entered into the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit. |
| version_2020_country | Chinese folk-religionist % | Number of Chinese folk-religionists as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. |
| version_2020_country | Chinese folk-religionists | Number of Chinese folk-religionists in this country's population. |
| version_2020_country | Chistian broadcast audience % | Regular audience in this country for Christian programs in 2000, expressed as a percentage of this country's population. |
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