Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2026).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| communion | Year communion begun | The year this council or communion was founded. |
| country | % Christians who know non-Christians | Percent of Christians who know non-Christians. |
| country | % non-Christians who know Christians | Percent of non-Christians who know Christians. |
| country | Adult % | Adults (age 15 and over) as percentage of this country's total population. Primary source: United Nations 2024. |
| country | Adults | Population of those aged 15 and over in 2025. [primary source: UN: World Population Prospects: The 2024 Revision]. |
| country | Agnostic % | Number of agnostics as a percentage of the 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. |
| 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. |
| country | All languages count | Count of all ISO languages spoken as the primary language of peoples in this country. |
| country | Atheist % | Number of atheists as a percentage of the country's population. Atheists are militantly anti-religious or anti-Christian agnostics, secularists, or marxists. |
| 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. |
| country | Baha'i % | Number of Baha’is as a percentage of the 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. |
| 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. |
| country | Below poverty line % | Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographic location (urban/rural). Primary source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform. |
| country | Bible languages count | Count of ISO languages with a full Bible. |
| country | Birth % | Birth rate for this country as a percentage per year. Source material is expressed as cases per 1000. Primary source: United Nations 2024. |
| country | Buddhist % | Number of Buddhists as a percentage of the country's population. 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. |
| 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. |
| country | Catholics | Number of Affiliated Catholics in this country. Affiliated Catholics are defined here as baptized Catholics plus catechumens. |
| 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. |
| country | Chinese folk-religionist % | Number of Chinese folk-religionists as a percentage of the country's population. |
| country | Chinese folk-religionists | Number of Chinese folk-religionists in this country's population. |
| country | Christian % | The number of Christians as a percentage of the country's population in 2025. |
| country | Christian female % | Percentage of Christians who are female. |
| country | Christian growth 1900–2000 % p.a. | Christian Growth % pa 1900-2000. Previous century. |
| country | Christian growth 2000–2025 % p.a. | Christian Growth % pa 2000–2025. This century. |
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