Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2026).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| version_2020_country | % Christians who know non-Christians | Percent of Christians who know non-Christians. |
| version_2020_country | % Ethnic religionists who know Christians | Ethnic religionists who know Christians. |
| version_2020_country | % Hindus who know Christians | Percent of Hindus who know Christians. |
| version_2020_country | % Muslims who know Christians | Percent of Muslims who know Christians. |
| version_2020_country | % non-Christians who know Christians | Percent of non-Christians who know Christians. |
| version_2020_country | Adult % | Adults (age 15 and over) as percentage of this country's total population. Primary source: United Nations 2019. |
| version_2020_country | Adult literacy % | The ability to read and write, as measured by the percentage of the population ages 15 and older who can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on their everyday life. Primary source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018) (in HDR 2018: most recent year in the period 2006-2016). |
| version_2020_country | Adult literates | The ability to read and write, as measured by the percentage of the population ages 15 and older who can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on their everyday life. Primary source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018) (in HDR 2018: most recent year in the period 2005-2018). |
| version_2020_country | Adults | Population of those age 15 and over in this country in 2020. Primary source: United Nations 2019 revision. |
| version_2020_country | Agencies-in-Peoples | Total agencies-in-peoples for this country. A smaller number represents a smaller presence. "agencies-in-peoples" is a measure of the widespread distribution of mission agencies across the world which quantifies one agency working in 50 peoples as 50 of these units. |
| version_2020_country | Agnostic % | Number of agnostics as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020 These are persons professing no religion, or professing unbelief or non-belief, non-believers, agnostics, freethinkers, liberal thinkers, non-religious humanists, indifference to both religion and atheism, apathetic, opposed on principle neither to religion nor to atheism; sometimes termed secularists or materialists; also post-Christian, dechristianized or de-religionized populations. |
| version_2020_country | Agnostics | Number of agnostic persons in this country's population. These are persons professing no religion, or professing unbelief or non-belief, non-believers, agnostics, freethinkers, liberal thinkers, non-religious humanists, indifference to both religion and atheism, apathetic, opposed on principle neither to religion nor to atheism; sometimes termed secularists or materialists; also post-Christian, dechristianized or de-religionized populations. |
| 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. |
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