Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| version_2020_country | UN Region | Region of the world to which the United Nations (UN) has assigned this country. |
| version_2020_country | UN Region code | Code for the region of the world the United Nations (UN) has assigned this country. |
| version_2020_country | Unaffiliated Christians | Persons professing allegiance and commitment to Christ but who have no church affiliation. |
| version_2020_country | Unevangelized % | The unevangelized in this country represent this percentage of the country's total population. |
| version_2020_country | Unevangelized Peoples | Count of unevangelized (World A) people groups in the country. |
| version_2020_country | Unevangelized Pop | The number of persons in this country that remain unevangelized. |
| version_2020_country | Urban % | Number of urbanites as a percentage of the country's population. |
| version_2020_country | Urban growth rate | The annual growth rate of the urban population. Primary source: United Nations 2022. |
| version_2020_country | Urban Pop | Number of urbanites (town and city dwellers) in this country. |
| version_2020_country | Version 2020 Country code | Four-letter abbreviation assigned to country for database purposes. |
| version_2020_country | Water Access % | Percentage of the country's population using improved drinking-water sources. Primary source: World Health Organization 2018 (in HDR 2018). |
| version_2020_country | WCEO URL | External link to the World Christian Encyclopedia (3rd edition) article for this country. (Subscription product: World Christian Encyclopedia Online, Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo. Brill, 2020). |
| version_2020_country | Wealth per capita | Individual net worth, per person in 2018, expressed in US dollars (official exchange rates). Defined as “the marketable value of financial assets plus non-financial assets (principally housing and land) less debts”. Primary source: Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2018. |
| version_2020_country | World A pop | Population of World A (unevangelized) individuals in this country in 2020. |
| version_2020_country | World B pop | Population of World B (evangelized non-Christian) individuals in this country in 2020. |
| version_2020_country | World C pop | Population of World C (Christian) individuals in this country in 2020. |
| version_2020_country | World evangelization code | A country is designated as 'A' 'Unevangelized' if less than 50% of its population is evangelized. It is designated 'B' 'Evangelized non-Christian if 50% or more of its population is evangelized and less than 60% Christian. It is designated 'C' 'Christian' if 60% or more of its population is Christian. |
| version_2020_country | Year begun | The first year this country had Christian residents. |
| version_2020_country | Zoroastrian % | Number of Zoroastrians as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020. Zoroastrianism is a religion founded in Persia in BC 1200 by the prophet Zoroaster teaching the worship of Ahura Mazda, now followed by Parsis in India and a large underground presence in Iran, Afghanistan, et alia. |
| version_2020_country | Zoroastrians | Number of Zoroastrians in this country's population. Zoroastrianism is a religion founded in Persia in BC 1200 by the prophet Zoroaster teaching the worship of Ahura Mazda, now followed by Parsis in India and a large underground presence in Iran, Afghanistan, et alia. |
| version_2020_people | Agencies code | Code of mission agencies present (0-5) in this people group: 5= 20+ agencies at work; 4 = 11-20; 3= 3-10; 2= 2 agencies; 1= 1 agency; 0 = 0 agencies at work. |
| version_2020_people | Agency count | Data-entered number of mission agencies present in this people group. (Overrides number listed in Agency_note). |
| version_2020_people | Agency note | Names or initials of mission agencies working among this people group. |
| version_2020_people | Agnostics | Agnostic population for this people group in this country. 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_people | Agnostics who know Christians | Agnostics who know Christians. |
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