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(OSV News) — Sub-Saharan Africa has replaced Europe as the locus for the world’s Christians, due to both higher birthrates and Western Europe’s “widespread Christian disaffiliation” — with Christians declining as a share of the world’s population due to adherents leaving the faith, according to new research by the Pew Research Center.
Christians, tallied across denominations, remain the world’s largest religious group — a majority in all regions except the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and North Africa areas — but “they are shrinking as a share of the global population, as large numbers of Christians around the world ‘switch’ out of religion to become religiously unaffiliated,” said Pew.
On June 9, the center released “How the Global Religious Landscape Changed from 2010 to 2020,” surveying the religious makeup of 99.98% of the world’s population of just under 8 billion. The data — drawn from more than 2,700 sources, including national censuses, large-scale demographic and population surveys as well as population registers — represents 201 countries and territories with populations of at least 100,000.
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Christians, tallied across denominations, remain the world’s largest religious group — a majority in all regions except the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and North Africa areas — but “they are shrinking as a share of the global population, as large numbers of Christians around the world ‘switch’ out of religion to become religiously unaffiliated,” said Pew.
On June 9, the center released “How the Global Religious Landscape Changed from 2010 to 2020,” surveying the religious makeup of 99.98% of the world’s population of just under 8 billion. The data — drawn from more than 2,700 sources, including national censuses, large-scale demographic and population surveys as well as population registers — represents 201 countries and territories with populations of at least 100,000.
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Christianity up in sub-Saharan Africa, down worldwide, Pew research shows
A new Pew study reveals Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa is on the rise, while Western nations see sharp declines in Christian affiliation.
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