DAWN Fridayfax 2003 #16

World

The State of Christianity 2003

Consolidated from around 50,000 individual surveys involving 10 million Christians around the world and costing US$1.1 billion, the annual statistical report is published by Professor David B. Barrett (Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA) and Todd M. Johnson (Director of the World Evangelistation Research Center in Richmond, USA). New this year is the column 'Trend %', which indicates the annual increase from 2000-2003.
Source: David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson, gem-werc.org

Year	1970	2000	Mid 2001	Trend %	Mid 2003	2025
World population	3,696,148,000	6,055,049,000	6,128,512,000	1.22	6,278,519,000	7,823,703,000
Urban population	1,353,370,000	2,881,079,000	2,916,034,000	1.90	3,048,398,000	4,611,677,000
Population under 15	1,385,605,000	1,800,402,000	1,799,941,000	-	1,795,441,000	1,836,624,000
Illiterate	835,349,000	993,302,000	1,010,561,000	1.75	1,046,317,000	940,442,000
Metropolitan areas over 100.000	2,400	4,050	4,100	1.84	4,300	6,500
Cities > 1 million	161	402	410	2.21	430	650
Urban slum inhabitants	260 million	700 million	720 million	2.82	760 million	1,500 million
Christians (all forms)	1,236,374,000	1,999,564,000	2,024,929,000	1.27	2,076,629,000	2,616,670,000
Muslims	553,528,000	1,188,243,000	1,213,370,000	2.11	1,265,230,000	1,784,876,000
Non-religious	532,096,000	768,159,000	774,333,000	0.80	786,831,000	875,121,000
Hindus	462,598,000	811,336,000	823,843,000	1.54	849,439,000	1,049,231,000
Buddhists	233,424,000	359,982,000	363,740,000	1.04	371,375,000	418,345,000
Atheists	165,400,000	150,090,000	150,447,000	0.24	151,162,000	159,544,000
New Religious	77,762,000	102,356,000	n/a	0.94	105,256,000	114,720,000
Ethnic Religions	160,278,000	228,367,000	231,335,000	1.30	237,386,000	277,247,000
Sikhs	10,618,000	23,258,000	23,687,000	1.84	24,569,000	31,378,000
Jews	14,763,000	14,434,000	14,552,000	0.81	14,789,000	16,053,000
Non-Christians	2,459,774,000	4,055,485,000	4,103,583,000	1.20	4,201,890,000	5,207,033,000
Christians without church	106,268,000	111,125,000	111,850,000	0.65	113,307,000	125,712,000
Crypto-Christians	59,195,000	123,727,000	126,421,000	2.18	131,985,000	190,490,000
"Missionary Christians"	277,152,000	647,821,000	657,163,000	1.44	676,254,000	887,579,000
Service attendance	885,777,000	1,359,420,000	1,373,554,000	1.04	1,402,263,000	1,760,568,000
Evangelicals	93,449,000	210,603,000	214,219,000	1.72	221,637,000	327,835,000
Pentecostals & Charismatics	72,223,000	523,767,000	533,581,000	1.87	553,763,000	811,552,000
Martyrs per year	230,000	165,000	167,000	1.24	166,000	210,000
Anglicans	47,501,000	79,650,000	80,717,000	1.34	82,895,000	113,746,000
Independents	95,605,000	385,745,000	394,102,000	2.17	411,365,000	581,642,000
Orthodox	139,662,000	215,129,000	216,247,000	0.52	218,501,000	252,716,000
Protestant	210,759,000	342,002,000	346,650,000	1.36	356,138,000	468,633,000
Roman Catholics	665,594,000	1,057,328,000	1,070,547,000	1.24	1,097,144,000	1,361,965,000
Christian workers	2,350,000	5,104,000	5,154,000	0.97	5,255,000	6,500,000
Missionaries	240,000	420,000	425,000	1.07	434,000	550,000
Church members' income (US$)	4,100 billion	15,198 billion	15,500 billion	2.28	16,300 billion	26,000 billion
Computers used by Christians	1,000	332 million	n/a	6.40	400 million	1.5 billion
Christian magazines	23,000	35,000	36,500	4.20	40,000	100,000
Radio/TV-stations	1,230	4,000	4,050	0.62	4,075	5,400
World mission plans since A.D.30	510	1,500	1,540	2.96	1,640	3,000

This Web version of the DAWN Fridayfax is maintained by the Jesus Fellowship Church (Jesus Army) as a service to the Christian church. Please visit our web pages which feature the e-zine Streetpaper and its special Revival section.