Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2026).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| version_2020_people | Christians | Christian population for this people group in this country. |
| version_2020_people | Christians 1900 | Christians in this people group in 1900. |
| version_2020_people | Christians who know Agnostics | Christians who know Agnostics. |
| version_2020_people | Christians who know Buddhists | Christians who know Buddhists. |
| version_2020_people | Christians who know Ethnic religionists | Christians who know Ethnic religionists. |
| version_2020_people | Christians who know Hindus | Christians who know Hindus. |
| version_2020_people | Christians who know Muslims | Christians who know Muslims. |
| version_2020_people | Christians who know non-Christians | Christians who know non-Christians. |
| version_2020_people | Confucianists | Confucianist population for this people group in this country. Confucians are non-Chinese followers of Confucius and Confucianism; mostly Koreans and in Korea. |
| version_2020_people | Country ID | Country ID of this people group. |
| version_2020_people | Cross-cultural code | A numerical range of cross-cultural activity spelled out in the 'Cross-Cultural' data field. 0-16 scale, with 16 representing the most cross-cultural witnessing possible. |
| version_2020_people | Daoists | Daoist population for this people group in this country. These are followers of one of the 3 major religions of China, regarded as part of Chinese folk religion. |
| version_2020_people | Denominations | Data-entered number of denominations present in this people group. (Overrides the count listed in Denom_note). |
| version_2020_people | Denominations code | A number code is assigned to each range of denominations, e.g. no denominations present = 0, two denom. = 2, 3-10 denominations present = 3, 11-20 denom. = 4, and over 20 denom. = 5. |
| version_2020_people | Denominations note | Names or initials of denominations working among this people. |
| version_2020_people | Discipleship code | Discipleship/discipling (0-10) for this people group. The code number represents the percentage of the people's population who have become evangelized in the recent past and up to the present as a result of local Christians' personal witness and evangelism. |
| version_2020_people | Ethnic religionists | Ethnic religionist population for this people group in this country. "Ethnic religionists" is a collective term for primal religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to ‘universal’ (open to any or all peoples). |
| version_2020_people | Ethnic religionists who know Christians | Ethnic religionists who know Christians. |
| version_2020_people | Ethnicity | The Ethnicity or ethnocultural family of this people group. |
| version_2020_people | Ethnicity ID | The Ethnicity code for the ethnicty or ethnocultural family of this people group. |
| version_2020_people | Evangelism Responsiveness | A measure of new church members baptized per year, per million evangelism-hours expended per year. Higher values indicate greater responsiveness to evangelism, lowest values signify small or even zero response. |
| version_2020_people | Evangelized | Number of persons in this people group living in this country who have had adequate opportunity, or opportunities, to hear the gospel and to respond to it, whether they respond positively or negatively by 2020. |
| version_2020_people | Hindus | Hindu population for this people group in this country. Followers of the main Hindu traditions: (a) Vaishnavites (Vishnaivites) numbering 70% of all Hindus; (b) Saivites numbering 25% mostly in South India; (c) Saktists or other sects (3%); (d) neo-Hindu movements and modern sects arising out of Hinduism, about 1.5%; and (e) Arya Samaj and other reformist movements, 0.5% (Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, Swami-Narayanis, Ramakrishna Mission, but excluding Jains and Sikhs). |
| version_2020_people | Hindus who know Christians | Hindus who know Christians. |
| version_2020_people | Jains | Jain population for this people group in this country. Followers of the Jain reform movement are from Hinduism, composed of the Svetambara and Digambara sects. |
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