Updates

10th October, 2010: Netherlands Antilles officially ceases to exist.

Two of its former provinces (Curacao and St Maarten) have become autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands (like Aruba in 1986), and the other three (Bonaire, St Eustatius, and Saba) become autonomous special municipalities within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The presentation of the Netherlands Antilles will remain in the database until official UN population estimates for 1950-2050 are produced for the two new countries, and the municipalities are added into the Netherlands.

The demographics of Christian martyrdom, AD 33–AD 2001

This new module for the World Christian Database presents data originally published in World Christian Trends as: "the evidence for the startling conclusion that, over the 20 centuries of the Christian faith, some 70 million Christians have been murdered for that faith and hence are called martyrs."

Work continues on adding to this section the period 2001-2010, since it is often the case that much time passes before the worst situations even become known. This module thus presents data initially to the turn of the millennium.

This new home page entitled "Martyrs" is accessible through a link on the main home page.