CHRISTIANITY BY COUNTRY

The following table pertains to 'Christianity by country', notably population statistics. Many of the figures cited in this article are hotly debated, with numbers varying widely between different sources^[1], and as such should be taken as approximate.

Contents

Sources used in the table

Inclusion of statistics

Statistics

Other Estimates

By Region

Footnotes and Specific References

See also

References

Sources used in the table

Most of the figures are taken from the CIA Factbook CIA factbook . Please note that not all figures published in the CIA Factbook are properly sourced.
Some of the figures on European countries are derived from the Eurobarometer Poll 2005 Eurobarometer on Social Values, Science and technology 2005 - page 11 and are based upon those who state they believe in a God. It is assumed someone must believe in God to be a Christian. The Eurobarometer figures themselves obviously include all other religions and the estimates here reflect that.

Inclusion of statistics

When changing or adding statistics:
#'Unsourced changes will be removed.'
#A reliable source must be given for ''each change''
#Links to websites clearly promoting a specific religion are not reliable sources
#Many official sources are considered more reputable than others. It should be noted however that while traditional sources such as http://bbc.co.uk or https://cia.gov do occasionally state a proper source for their data, in many cases they do not. Unsourced data from the these works are accepted where no other sourced figures are available.
#If there is any doubt as the figures, a range of figures may be listed, as long as there are sources for both figures.

Statistics

[''approx''] CIA factbook

Region	Country	Population(2007E)	% Christian	Christian total
Central Asia	Christianity in Afghanistan	31,889,923	0.1% [2]	31,890
Balkans	Christianity in Albania	3,600,523	27% (''approximate'') CIA factbook [3]	972,141
North Africa	Christianity in Algeria	33,333,216	0.25%	83,333
Western Europe	Christianity in Andorra	71,822	90% [1]	64,640
Southern Africa	Christianity in Angola	12,263,596	53% (''1998 est.'')	6,499,706
Caribbean	Christianity in Anguilla	13,677	90.5% (''2001 census'')	12,378
South America	Christianity in Argentina	40,301,927	94% (less than 25% practicing)	37,883,811
Caucasus	Christianity in Armenia	2,971,650	98.7%	2,933,019
Oceania	Christianity in Australia	20,434,176	67.4%	13,772,635
Central Europe	Christianity in Austria	8,199,783	49%(''approx'') Eurobarometer on Social Values, Science and technology 2005 - page 11 - 81.8% (''approx'') [4]	4,017,894 - 6,707,422
Caucasus	Christianity in Azerbaijan	8,120,247	3.8%	308,569
Caribbean	Christianity in the Bahamas	305,655	96.3	294,346
Middle East	Christianity in Bahrain	708,573	9%	63,772
South Asia	Christianity in Bangladesh	150,448,339	0.3% [5].	451,345
Eastern Europe	Christianity in Belarus	9,724,723	85% [''approx'']	8,266,015
Western Europe	Christianity in Belgium	10,392,226	38% [''approx''] - 84%	3,949,046 - 8,729,470
Central America	Christianity in Belize	294,385	76.6%	225,499
West Africa	Christianity in Benin	8,078,314	42.8% [''approx'']	3,457,518
South Asia	Christianity in Bhutan	2,327,849	0%	0
South America	Christianity in Bolivia	9,119,152	98%	8,936,769
Balkans	Christianity in Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,552,198	46% [''approx'']	2,094,011
Southern Africa	Christianity in Botswana	1,815,508	71.6% (''2001 census'')	1,299,904
South America	Christianity in Brazil	190,010,647	89%	169,109,476
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Brunei	374,577	10% [''approx'']	37,458
Balkans	Christianity in Bulgaria	7,322,858	35% (''approx'') - 83.8%	2,563,000 - 6,136,555
West Africa	Christianity in Burkina Faso	14,326,203	10% (''approximate'')	1,432,620
Central Africa	Christianity in Burundi	8,390,505	67%	5,621,638
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Cambodia	13,995,904	1% [''approx''][6]	139,959
West Africa	Christianity in Cameroon	18,060,382	40% [''approx'']	7,224,153
North America	Christianity in Canada	33,390,141	70.3%	23,473,269
West Africa	Christianity in Cape Verde	423,613	50% [''approx'']	211,807
Central Africa	Christianity in Central African Republic	4,369,038	50% (''approximate'')	2,184,519
Central Africa	Christianity in Chad	9,885,661	35%	3,459,981
South America	Christianity in Chile	16,284,741	91% [7]	14,819,114
East Asia	Christianity in China	1,321,851,888	3 - 5.7%(Estimates strongly vary)[8][9]	39,655,557 - 75,345,558
South America	Christianity in Colombia	44,379,598	94.5%[10]	41,938,720
East Africa	Christianity in Comoros	711,417	2%	14,228
Central Africa	Christianity in the Republic of the Congo	3,800,610	50%	1,900,305
Central Africa	Christianity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	65,751,512	70%	46,026,058
Central America	Christianity in Costa Rica	4,133,884	94%	3,885,851
West Africa	Christianity in Côte d'Ivoire	18,013,409	20-30%	3,602,682 - 5,404,023
Balkans	Christianity in Croatia	4,493,312	62% (''approx'') 93%	2,785,853 - 4,178,780
North America	Christianity in Cuba	11,394,043	45% [11]	5,127,319
Middle East	Christianity in Cyprus	788,457	82%	646,535
Central Europe	Christianity in Czech Republic	10,228,744	14% (''approximate'') - 30%	1,432,024 - 3,068,632
Western Europe	Christianity in Denmark	5,468,120	26% (''approximate'') - 97%	1,421,711 - 5,304,076
East Africa	Christianity in Djibouti	496,374	6%	29,782
Caribbean	Christianity in Dominica	72,377	88.7% [12]	64,198
Caribbean	Christianity in Dominican Republic	9,365,818	75.8%[13]	7,099,290
Southeast Asia	Christianity in East Timor	1,084,971	93%	1,009,023
South America	Christianity in Ecuador	13,755,680	95% [''approx'']	13,067,896
North Africa	Christianity in Egypt	80,335,036	10%	8,033,504
Central America	Christianity in El Salvador	6,948,073	83.4%[14]	5,794,693
West Africa	Christianity in Equatorial Guinea	551,201	70% [''approx'']	385,841
East Africa	Christianity in Eritrea	4,906,585	50%	2,453,293
Eastern Europe	Christianity in Estonia	1,315,912	10% - 28%	131,591 - 368,455
East Africa	Christianity in Ethiopia	76,511,887	61.6%[15]	47,131,322
Oceania	Christianity in Fiji	918,675	52%	477,711
Western Europe	Christianity in Finland	5,238,460	36%(''approx'') - 83.6% (''approx'') [16]	1,885,846 - 4,379,353
Western Europe	Christianity in France	63,718,187	30% (''approx'') - 89%	19,115,456 - 56,709,186
West Africa	Christianity in Gabon	1,454,867	30% 60%[17]	436,460 - 872,920
West Africa	Christianity in The Gambia	1,688,359	9%	151,952
Caucasus	Christianity in Georgia	4,646,003	88.6%	4,116,359
Western Europe	Christianity in Germany	82,400,996	42% - 68%	34,608,418 - 56,032,677
West Africa	Christianity in Ghana	22,931,299	68.8%	15,776,734
Balkans	Christianity in Greece	10,706,290	98%	10,492,164
Caribbean	Christianity in Grenada	89,971	94%[18]	84,573
Central America	Christianity in Guatemala	12,728,111	85%	10,818,894
West Africa	Christianity in Guinea	9,947,814	8%	795,825
West Africa	Christianity in Guinea-Bissau	1,472,780	5%	73,639
South America	Christianity in Guyana	769,095	50%	384,548
Caribbean	Christianity in Haiti	8,706,497	83.7%[19]	7,287,338
Central America	Christianity in Honduras	7,483,763	86% [20]	6,436,038
Central Europe	Christianity in Hungary	9,956,108	35% - 75%	3,484,638 - 7,467,081
Western Europe	Christianity in Iceland	301,931	33% (''approx'') - 94%	99,637 - 283,815
South Asia	Christianity in India	1,129,866,154	2.3%	25,986,922
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Indonesia	234,693,997	8.7%	20,418,378
Middle East	Christianity in Iran	65,397,521	0.2%	130,795
Middle East	Christianity in Iraq	27,499,638	0.75%	206,247
Western Europe	Christianity in Ireland	4,109,086	68% - 93%	2,794,178 - 3,821,450
Middle East	Christianity in Israel	6,426,679	2.1%	134,960
Western Europe	Christianity in Italy	58,147,733	70% - 87% [21]	40,703,413 – 50,588,528
Caribbean	Christianity in Jamaica	2,780,132	61.3%[22];	1,704,221
East Asia	Christianity in Japan	127,433,494	0.7%	892,034
Middle East	Christianity in Jordan	6,053,193	6%	363,192
Central Asia	Christianity in Kazakhstan	15,284,929	47%	7,183,917
East Africa	Christianity in Kenya	36,913,721	66%-78% [23] [24]	24,363,056 - 28,792,702
East Asia	Christianity in North Korea	23,301,725	0.05% [25]	11,651
East Asia	Christianity in South Korea	49,044,790	26.3%	12,898,780
Middle East	Christianity in Kuwait	2,505,559	3.75% [''approx'']	93,958
Central Asia	Christianity in Kyrgyzstan	5,284,149	20%	1,056,830
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Laos	6,521,998	1.3%	84,786
Eastern Europe	Christianity in Latvia	2,259,810	32% (''approximate'')	723,139
Middle East	Christianity in Lebanon	3,925,502	39%	1,530,946
Southern Africa	Christianity in Lesotho	2,125,262	80%	1,700,210
West Africa	Christianity in Liberia	3,195,931	40%	1,278,372
North Africa	Christianity in Libya	6,036,914	1%	60,369
Central Europe	Christianity in Liechtenstein	34,247	83.8% [2][3]	28,699
Eastern Europe	Christianity in Lithuania	3,575,439	44% - 85%	1,573,193 - 3,039,123
Western Europe	Christianity in Luxembourg	480,222	39% (''approximate'')	187,287
Balkans	Christianity in FYR Macedonia	2,055,915	65.1%	1,338,401
Southern Africa	Christianity in Madagascar	19,448,815	41%	7,974,017
Southern Africa	Christianity in Malawi	13,603,181	70%[26]	9,522,227
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Malaysia	24,821,286	9.1%	2,258,737
South Asia	Christianity in Maldives	369,031	0%	0
West Africa	Christianity in Mali	11,995,402	1%	119,954
North Africa	Christianity in Mauritania	3,270,065	0%	0
Southern Africa	Christianity in Mauritius	1,250,882	32.2%	402,784
North America	Christianity in Mexico	108,700,891	82.8% - 95% [27]	90,004,338 - 103,265,846
Eastern Europe	Christianity in Moldova	4,328,816	98.2%	4,250,897
Western Europe	Christianity in Monaco	32,671	22.5%[4] - 90% [5]	7,351 - 29,404
Central Asia	Christianity in Mongolia	2,951,786	0.3%	8,855
North Africa	Christianity in Morocco	33,757,175	0.1%	33,757
Southern Africa	Christianity in Mozambique	20,905,585	41.3%	8,634,007
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Myanmar	47,373,958	4%	1,894,958
Southern Africa	Christianity in Namibia	2,055,080	85%	1,746,818
South Asia	Christianity in Nepal	28,901,790	0.45%	130,058
Western Europe	Christianity in the Netherlands	16,570,613	29% - 51% (''approximate'')	4,805,478 - 8,451,013
Oceania	Christianity in New Zealand	4,115,771	53.5%	2,201,937
Central America	Christianity in Nicaragua	5,675,356	89.6%[28]	5,085,119
West Africa	Christianity in Niger	12,894,865	5%	644,743
West Africa	Christianity in Nigeria	135,031,164	40%	54,012,466
Western Europe	Christianity in Norway	4,627,926	10%-89.9%(''approx'') [29]	462,793-4,160,505
Middle East	Christianity in Oman	3,204,897	0.01% (''1984'')[30]	450
South Asia	Christianity in Pakistan	164,741,924	1.5% [31]	2,471,129
Central America	Christianity in Panama	3,242,173	90%	2,917,956
Oceania	Christianity in Papua New Guinea	5,795,887	66%	3,825,285
South America	Christianity in Paraguay	6,669,086	96.9% [32]	6,462,344
South America	Christianity in Peru	28,674,757	83.1%	23,828,723
Southeast Asia	Christianity in The Philippines	91,077,287	92.5% [33]	84,246,490
Central Europe	Christianity in Poland	38,518,241	75%-96%[34]	28,888,681 - 36,977,511
Western Europe	Christianity in Portugal	10,642,836	76% (''approx'')	8,088,555
Middle East	Christianity in Qatar	907,229	8.5%	77,114
Central Europe	Christianity in Romania	22,276,056	85% (''approx'')	18,934,648
Eastern Europe	Christianity in Russia	141,377,752	18.5% - 70% [35]	26,154,884 - 98,964,426
East Africa	Christianity in Rwanda	9,907,509	93.6%	9,273,428
Western Europe	Christianity in San Marino	29,615	100%	29,615
Middle East	Christianity in Saudi Arabia	27,601,038	3-5% [36].	828,031-1,380,052
West Africa	Christianity in Senegal	12,521,851	5%	626,093
Balkans	Christianity in Serbia and Montenegro	10,835,001	70%	7,584,501
East Africa	Christianity in Seychelles	81,895	94.7%	77,555
West Africa	Christianity in Sierra Leone	6,144,562	10% (''approximate'')	614,456
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Singapore	4,553,009	14.6%	664,739
Central Europe	Christianity in Slovakia	5,447,502	56% (''approximate'') - 83.8%	3,050,601 - 4,565,007
Central Europe	Christianity in Slovenia	2,009,245	32% - 61%	642,958 - 1,225,639
East Africa	Christianity in Somalia	9,118,773	0%	0
Southern Africa	Christianity in South Africa	43,997,828	79.7%	35,066,269
Western Europe	Christianity in Spain	40,448,191	54% - 94%	21,842,023 - 38,021,300
South Asia	Christianity in Sri Lanka	20,926,315	6.2%	1,297,432
North Africa	Christianity in Sudan	39,379,358	5%	1,968,968
South America	Christianity in Suriname	470,784	48%	225,976
Southern Africa	Christianity in Swaziland	1,133,066	46%-86% (''depending on degree of syncretism'')	521,210 - 974,437
Western Europe	Christianity in Sweden	9,031,088	18% (''approximate'') 78 % [37]	1,625,596 – 7,044,249
Western Europe	Christianity in Switzerland	7,554,661	43% (''approximate'') - 75% [38]	3,248,504 - 5,665,996
Middle East	Christianity in Syria	19,314,747	10% (''approximate'')	1,931,474
East Asia	Christianity in Taiwan	22,858,872	4.5%	1,028,649
Central Asia	Christianity in Tajikistan	7,076,598	3%	212,298
East Africa	Christianity in Tanzania	39,384,223	30% (''approximate'')	11,815,267
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Thailand	65,068,149	0.7%	455,477
West Africa	Christianity in Togo	5,701,579	29%	1,653,458
Central America	Christianity in Trinidad and Tobago	1,056,608	57.6%	608,606
North Africa	Christianity in Tunisia	10,276,158	1%	102,762
Middle East	Christianity in Turkey	71,158,647	0.1%	711,586
Central Asia	Christianity in Turkmenistan	5,097,028	9%	458,733
East Africa	Christianity in Uganda	30,262,610	85%[39]	25,723,219
Eastern Europe	Christianity in Ukraine	46,299,862	51.7% [40] - 90% [41]	23,937,029 - 41,669,876
Middle East	Christianity in the United Arab Emirates	4,444,011	1% [''approx'']	44,440
Western Europe	Christianity in the United Kingdom	60,776,238	35% (''approx.'') - 71.6% [42]	21,271,683 - 43,515,786
North America	Christianity in the United States	301,139,947	78%	234,889,159
Caribbean	Christianity in Puerto Rico (U.S.)	3,944,259	93% [43]	3,668,158
South America	Christianity in Uruguay	3,460,607	68%	2,353,213
Central Asia	Christianity in Uzbekistan	27,780,059	9%	2,500,205
Western Europe	Christianity in Vatican City	921	100% [44]	921
South America	Christianity in Venezuela	26,023,528	98%	25,503,057
Southeast Asia	Christianity in Vietnam	85,262,356	8% [45] [46]	6,820,988
Middle East	Christianity in West Bank and Gaza	4,018,332	2%	80,367
North Africa	Christianity in Western Sahara	382,617	0%	0
Middle East	Christianity in Yemen	22,230,531	0.5%	111,153
Southern Africa	Christianity in Zambia	11,477,447	50-75%	5,738,724 - 8,608,085
Southern Africa	Christianity in Zimbabwe	12,311,143	25-75% (''depending on extent of syncretism'')	3,077,786 - 9,233,357
Total		6,671,226,000	25.284% - 30.033%	1,686,752,597 - 2,003,618,824

Other Estimates

The American Central Intelligence Agency Factbook
^[47] estimates the percentage of people in the world to be Christians at 33.03% which would put the total number of Christians based upon the 2005 population above at 2,085,881,465. However it should be noted that there is no source for this figure. Note the disparity with the summation of the individual figures in the table even though a good proportion of those figure are also taken from the CIA Factbook ( some of which are also not properly sourced ).

By Region

The following are summary tables of the numbers and percentages of Christians in each region. These are taken from the main table above. ''Where there is a range of figures the figures below are taken as the average.''

'Christianity in Asia'

Region	Total Population	Christians	% Christian	% of total Christians
Central Asia	93,315,890	11,398,809	12.21%	0.65%
East Asia	1,528,384,440	71,604,991	4.68%	4.11%
South Asia	1,385,672,682	28,473,135	2.05%	1.63%
Southeast Asia	571,801,001	116,458,754	20.36%	6.68%
Total	3,579,174,013	277,935,689	6.36%	13.08%

'Christianity in Africa'

Region	Total Population	Christians	% Christian	% of total Christians
Central Africa	83,121,055	53,127,098	63.9%	3.008%
East Africa	195,041,900	116,911,194	59.94%	6.620%
North Africa	203,536,578	10,271,958	5.04%	0.581%
Southern Africa	138,028,304	81,609,757	59.12%	4.621%
West Africa	269,922,224	93,283,710	34.56%	5.282%
Total	889,650,061	355,203,717	39.92%	20.11%

'Christianity in The Americas'

Region	Total Population	Christians	% Christian	% of total Christians
Caribbean	24,295,771	19,349,038	79.96%	1.11%
Central America	42,223,849	36,295,874	85.96%	2.08%
North America	446,088,748	346,776,585	77.37%	19.90%
South America	371,077,387	336,458,522	90.67.9%	19.31%
Total	883,585,755	738,880,019	83.62%	42.40%

'Christianity in Oceania'

Region	Total Population	Christians	% Christian	% of total Christians
Oceania	30,564,520	19,833,299	64.89%	1.13%
Total	30,564,520	19,833,299	64.89%	1.13%

Footnotes and Specific References

1. Differences are due to several factors, such as missionary (or governmental) bias, stronger or looser definitions of ''Christian'', and data sampling methods.
2. Joshua Project
3. There are currently no reliable numbers, the last serious research about religion in Albania was in 1930s
4. Austria
International Religious Freedom Report 2005
5. Bangladesh Government Data
6. International Religious Freedom Report 2005-Cambodia
7. US Department of State - Chile - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
8. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71338.htm. Retrieved 20 September 2006.
9. Ash, Russell. ''The Top 10 of Everything'', DK Publishing, Inc.: New York (1997), pg. 160-161; December Advance Newsletter, 1996, Kainos Press; Adherents.com
10. US Department of State - Columbia - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
11. Bible Society
12. US Department of State - Dominica - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
13. US Department of State - Dominican Republic - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
14. US Department of State - El Salvador - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
15. 1994 Ethiopian census as cited by Berhanu Abegaz, "Ethiopia: A Model Nation of Minorities" (accessed 6 April 2006)
16. Finland
International Religious Freedom Report 2005
17. US Department of State - Gabon - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
18. US Department of State - Grenada - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
19. US Embassy - Haiti - International Religious Freedom Report 2006
20. US Department of State - Honduras - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
21. US Department of State - Italy- International Religious Freedom Report 2005
22. Jamaican Census Figures
23. US Department of State - Kenya - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
24. CIA FACTBOOK - Kenya
25. Eyewitness: Christianity in North Korea - ''BBC News''
26. US Department of State - Malawi - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
27. US Department of State - MEXICO - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
28. US Department of State - Nicaragua - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
29. Wikipedia, Religion In Norway Today
30. Adherents.com
31. ReligiousTolerence.Org
32. US Department of State - Paraguay - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
33. US Department of State - Philippines - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
34. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71400.htm International Religious Freedom Report 2006
35. International Religious Freedom Report 2006 - Russia
36. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051109/2005110928.html Saudi Arabia
37. US Department of State Sweden- International Religious Freedom Report 2005
38. US Department of State - Switzerland - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
39. US Department of State - Uganda - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
40. Eurobarometer on Social Values, Science and technology 2005 - page 11
41. US Department of State - UKRAINE - International Religious Freedom Report 2005
42. UK Census 2001
43. Business Register Online
44. Vatican City is the seat of the Roman Catholic church
45.
46. Vietnam Affirms Consistent Policy on Religion: White Paper-2006
47. US CIA Factbook - World Figures

See also

★ List of religious populations

★ Islam by country

★ Buddhism by country

★ Hinduism by country

★ Judaism by country

★ Protestantism by country

★ Roman Catholicism by country

★ No Faith by Country

References

★ Denmark. ''Danish Church Ministry''. [6] ''kristendom.dk''.

★ Italy. ''BBC News - Factfile: Roman Catholics around the world''.

★ Morocco. ''International Religious Freedom Report''.

★ Nepal. ''International Christian Concern''.

★ Russia.