Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2026).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| version_2020_province | Note | Additional descriptive data for this province. |
| version_2020_province | Province | Name of the Major Civil Division (United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) as it is known to its inhabitants. |
| version_2020_province | Province Capital | Name of Province's capital city if major Civil Division (United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) has one. |
| version_2020_province | Province pk | Unique province identifier (primary key) used by the database. |
| version_2020_province | Province Pop | Province population in each MCD (Major Civil Division-United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) in 2020. |
| version_2020_province | Province Pop % | Province population in each MCD (Major Civil Division-United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) as a percentage of the country's population. |
| version_2020_province | Religions over 1% | Provides the best estimate of the majority religion percentage (rounded to integer); and then a list of the names of other religions over 1%. |
| version_2020_province | Version 2020 Country code | Four-letter abbreviation assigned to country for database purposes. |
| version_2020_province | World Evangelization Code | A province 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_wlc_scripture | Audio code | Numeric or Character code for availability of audio scriptures for this people group. 6/B = Audio scriptures purchasable: complete Bible; 5/A = Audio scriptures purchasable: New Testament; 4/a = Audio scriptures purchasable: gospels or other portions; 1/c = Audio/film materials, or audio scriptures in near-language; 0/. = No audio scriptures or selections available. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Bible date | Earliest date (-and most recent date) a full printed Bible was published in (any dialect) of this language. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Biblioglossonym | Bible name: The official name of this language for any Scripture translation project. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Braille code | 1 = Braille scriptures available for the blind. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Christian % | Percentage of this language who are Christians. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Christian broadcasting code | Countries broadcasting Christian programs in this language (0-4) to this people group. 4= Available in major language; 3= Broadcasting from several countries; 2= Broadcasting from 1 or 2 countries; 1= Local broadcasts only or any broadcast in a same-cluster language; 0= none for this people group. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Country count | Count of countries with people speaking this as their primary mother-tongue. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Evangelized % | Percentage of this language who are evangelized. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | JESUS Film code | A numeric code for ‘Jesus’ Film availability for this people group in this country: 2= available 10 years or more; 1= available for less than 10 years, or available in near-language only; 0= not available in mother tongue or its cluster of languages. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | JESUS Film year begun | Date of first publication. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Language code | Three letter ISO 639-3 language code. A single code usually means 'this WLC dialect is included as part of this ISO language'. Multiple codes indicate either that 'this WLC cluster of languages {includes} these ISO languages', or that 'there is no match to the ISO (yet), but as a guide these {near} ISO codes occur elsewhere in the cluster. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Language level | The level that this language code occupies in the World Language Classification hierarchy. Languages and dialects are spoken and other levels describe groups of languages of variable inter-intelligibility. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Language population | Mother tongue speakers. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | New Reader flag | 1= New Reader Scriptures available in this language. 'New Reader Scriptures' is a UBS-sponsored program for producing versions of the Scriptures specially compiled for newly-literate persons. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | New Testament date | Earliest date (-and most recent date) a New Testament was published in (any dialect) of this language. |
| version_2020_wlc_scripture | Non native speakers 2005 | 2005. An archived indicative-only population of people who speak this language as a second language or lingua franca. |
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