Source: World Christian Database, Accessed May 2023; *Graph reports Christian affiliation, or membership, not belief, practice, or theological beliefs
Young Africa, Aging West
Sub-Saharan Africa’s youthful Christian population ensures the region’s centrality to global Christian growth for decades to come. Christianity will increasingly be a religion of the aged in Europe and North America.
The Americas
Countries in the Western Hemisphere maintain their centrality to the world Christian movement even as Western European nations fall out of the top ten for the first time in modern history.
Growth and Decline
Over the past century, Christianity witnessed its most marked growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and its most marked decline in the Middle East, North Africa, and Western Europe.
% of Global Christianity
Ranking of Countries
Source: World Christian Database, Accessed May 2023
Median Age
Source: Pew Center, The Future of World Religions, 2015
Lowest % Christian
Countries with Lowest % Christian
Source: World Christian Database, Accessed May 2023
