Christianity by country

For countries with Christianity as the official religion, see Christian state.

Christian population percentage by country

As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population. ^[2] According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people. ^{[a] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]} It represents nearly one-third of the world's population and is the largest religion in the world, with the three largest groups of Christians being the Catholic Church, Protestantism, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. ^[8] The largest Christian denomination is the Catholic Church, with 1.3 billion baptized members. ^[9] The second largest Christian branch is either Protestantism (if it is considered a single group), or the Eastern Orthodox Church (if Protestants are considered to be divided into multiple denominations).

According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, of the then 232 countries and territories, 157 had Christian majorities. ^[10]

Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. ^[11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. ^[12]

Christianity in multiple forms is the state religion of the following 15 nations: Argentina (Catholic Church), ^[13] Armenia (Armenian Apostolic Church), Tuvalu (Church of Tuvalu), Costa Rica (Catholic Church), ^[14] Kingdom of Denmark (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark), ^[15] England (Church of England), ^[16] Greece (Church of Greece), Georgia (Eastern Orthodox Church), ^{[17] [18]} Iceland (Church of Iceland), ^[19] Liechtenstein (Catholic Church), ^[20] Malta (Catholic Church), ^[21] Monaco (Catholic Church), ^[22] Vatican City (Catholic Church), ^[23] and Zambia. Christianity used to be the state religion of the former Ethiopian Empire (adopted in 340 A.D. by the Kingdom of Aksum) prior to the government's overthrow. ^[24]

Lists

Population data are compiled using statistical science and are subject to observational error; these numbers should therefore be considered estimates only. The total number of Christians for each country is based on the number of people who are members of a Christian denomination or who identify themselves as Christian, plus their children. The number of people who actually believe in God or who regularly attend church is not addressed.

Top ten by numbers

A list of the top ten countries by largest number of Christians according to Pew Research Center in 2010. ^{[25] [26]}

Rank	Country	Christians	% Christian
1	United States	246,790,000	79.5%
2	Brazil	175,700,000	81.6%
3	Mexico	107,780,000	95.0%
4	Russia	105,220,000	73.6%
5	Philippines	86,790,000	93.1%
6	Nigeria	80,510,000	50.8%
7	China	67,070,000	5.0%
8	Congo DR	63,150,000	95.7%
9	Germany	58,240,000	70.8%
10	South Africa	52,886,000	85.3%

Top ten by percentage

A list of the top ten countries by highest percentage of the population that is Christian according to Pew Research Center in 2010. ^[26]

Rank	Country	% Christian	Christians
1	Vatican City	100%	800
2	Romania	99.0%	21,490,000
3	Papua New Guinea	99.0%	6,860,000
4	Timor-Leste	99.0%	1,120,000
5	Tonga	99.0%	100,000
6	Armenia	98.5%	3,090,000
7	Namibia	97.6%	2,280,000
8	Moldova	97.5%	3,570,000
9	Solomon Islands	97.5%	520,000
10	Marshall Islands	97.5%	50,000

UN members and dependent territories

Christianity by country

Country or entity	Christians	% Christian	% Catholic	% Protestant / Orthodox / Other Christian
Afghanistan (details)	6,250/8,000 [27] – 30,000 [28]	0.02% [28]
Albania (details)	580,000	17.0% [29]	10.0%	7.0%
Algeria (details)	20,000 – 200,000 [30] or 71,000 (estimate for 2010) [31]	0.01%	0.01%	1.0% [ figures disagree ]
American Samoa (details)	70,000	98.3%	20.0%
Andorra (details)	78,000	89.5%	88.2% [32]	1.3%
Angola (details)	27,816,413	79.2%	41.1% [33]	38.1% [33]
Anguilla (details)	15,000	90.5%	3.0%	87.0%
Antigua and Barbuda (details)	66,000	74.0%	10.0%	64.0%
Argentina (details)	34,940,108	77.0% [34]	66.0% [34]	11.0% [34]
Armenia (details)	2,826,000 [35]	97.9% [35]	1.0% [35]	96.9% [35]
Aruba (details)	98,000	88%	80.8%	7.8%
Australia (details)	11,148,814	43.9% [36]	20.0%	23.9%
Austria (details)	5,185,959	58.0% – 62.0%	54.9% [37]	3.0% – 7.0% [38] [39]
Azerbaijan (details)	280,000 [40]	3.1%		3.1%
Bahamas (details)	335,975	95.0% [41]	12.0%	83.0%
Bahrain (details)	185,000	15.0% [42]		9.0%
Bangladesh (details)	495,000	0.3% [43]	0.4%
Barbados (details)	244,000	74.0% [44]	4.2%	70.0%
Belarus (details)	5,265,000	55.4% [45]	7.1%	48.3%
Belgium (details)	6,860,000	65.0% [46]	58.0% [46]	7.0% [46]
Belize (details)	247,000	76.7%	40.0%	36.7%
Benin (details)	5,570,000	48.5% [47]	25.5%	23.0%
Bermuda (details)	44,000	64.7%	15.0%	50.0%
Bhutan (details)	7,000	1.0%	0.1%	0.9%
Bolivia (details)	9,730,000	89.0%	76.0%	13.0%
Bosnia and Herzegovina (details)	1,622,093 [48]	45.94% [48]	15.19% [48]	30.75% [48]
Botswana (details)	1,416,000	71.6%	5.0%	66.0%
Brazil (details)	180,770,000 [49]	81.6% [49]	49.6% [49]	31.0% [49]
British Virgin Islands (details)	23,000	94.0%	9.0%	85.0%
Brunei (details)	29,000	7.1% [50]
Bulgaria (details)	6,364,000	64.7% [51]	0.6%	64.1% [46]
Burkina Faso (details)	5,393,000	26.3% [52]	20.1%	6.2%
Burundi (details)	7,662,000	75.0%	60.0%	15.0%
Cambodia (details)	148,000	1.0%	0.15%	0.85%
Cameroon (details)	15,390,000	73.0% [53]	44.4%	29.3%
Canada (details)	19,300,000 [54]	53.3% [54]	29.9% [54]	23.4% [55]
Cape Verde (details)	487,000	89.1% [28]	78.7%	10.4%
Cayman Islands (details)	52,600	66.9% [56]	13.6%	53.3%
Central African Republic (details)	2,302,000	80.0%	29.0%	51.0%
Chad (details)	4,150,000 [28]	35.0%	20.0%	15.0%
Chile (details)	9,900,000	68.0% [57]	55.0%	13.0%
People's Republic of China (details)	31,220,000 [58] – 34,610,000 / 49,170,000 [59]	2.5% – 3.5% [59]	0.46% – 0.69% [59]	2.0% – 2.89% [59]
Colombia (details)	43,560,000	92.0% [60]	79.0%	13.0%
Comoros (details)	15,000	2.1%
Cook Islands (details)	13,000	87.0% [61]	17.4%	69.6%
Congo, Republic of (details)	3,409,000	90.7%	50.0%	40.0%
Congo, Democratic Republic of (details)	63,150,000	92.0%	50.0%	42.0%
Costa Rica (details)	4,000,000	82.0%	57.0%	25.0%
Côte d'Ivoire (details)	11,697,000	39.8% [62]
Croatia (details)	3,383,046 [63]	87.4% [64]	79.0%	8.4%
Cuba (details)	6,670,000 [28]	65.0% [65]	52.7%	7.5%
Cyprus (details)	863,000	79.0% [66] [67]	1.0%	78.0%
Czech Republic (details)	1,725,963	16.4% [68]	13.4%	3.0%
Denmark (details)	4,400,754 [69]	79.0%	1.0%	77.8% [70]
Djibouti (details)	53,000	6.0%	1.0%	5.0%
Dominica (details)	59,000	88.7%	61.0%	27.0%
Dominican Republic (details)	9,734,000	83.0%	65.0%	18.0%
Ecuador (details)	14,099,000	94.0%	74.0%	20.0%
Egypt (details)	9,029,000	10.0% [71]
El Salvador (details)	5,073,000	81.9%	52.6%	29.3%
Equatorial Guinea (details)	683,000	88.7% [28]	80.7%	8.0%
Eritrea (details)	3,577,000	67.0% [72]	4.0%	54.0%
Estonia (details)	408,847	30.7% [73]	0.9%	29.8%
Eswatini (details)	994,000	82.7%	25.0%	57.7%
Ethiopia (details)	77,477,000	75.0%	0.7%	63.4%
Falkland Islands (details)	3,000	94.3%		94.0%
Faroe Islands (details)	33,000	95.4% [74]		94.0%
Fiji (details)	540,000	64.4%	8.9%	55.5%
Finland (details)	3,736,000 [75]	67.1% [75]	0.3%	66.9%
France (details)	25,744,860–33,874,816	38.0% (2020 est.) [76] [b] 50% (2021 est.) 60.6% [77]	29.0% – 47% [78] - 57.5% [79]	9.0% [76] - 3% [78] - 3.1% [79]
Gabon (details)	1,081,000	88.0% [80]	41.9%	46.1%
Gambia (details)	79,000	4.2% [81]
Georgia (details)	3,241,000	88.1% [82]	0.5%	87.6%
Germany (details)	44,861,000	53.9% [83]	26.7% [83]	27.2% [83]
Ghana (details)	21,955,000	71.3% [84]	10.0%	61.3%
Greece (details)	10,000,000	93.0% [85]	<1.0% [85]
Greenland (details)	55,000	96.6%		96.6%
Grenada (details)	101,000	97.3%	53.0%	45.0%
Guatemala (details)	14,018,000	87.0%	47.0%	40.0%
Guinea (details)	1,032,000	8.9% [86]	5.0%	5.0%
Guinea-Bissau (details)	165,000	10.0%	10.0%
Guyana (details)	468,000	62.7% [87]	7.1%	55.6%
Haiti (details)	9,597,000	96.0%	80.0%	16.0%
Honduras (details)	6,660,000	88.0% [88]	47.0%	41.0%
Hong Kong (details)	1,357,000	18.4% [89]	5.0%	6.8%
Hungary (details)	5,254,179 [90] – 6,501,000 [46]	52.87% [90] – 65.0% [46]	38.96% [90] – 58.0% [46]	13.91% [90]
Iceland (details)	272,200 [91]	72.3% [91]	3.9% [91]	68.4% [91]
India (details)	30,000,000	2.3% [35]	1.3%	1.0%
Indonesia (details)	29,149,241 [92]	10.49% [93]	3.06%	7.43%
Iran (details)	380,000 – 1,500,000 [94]	0.4% –1.5%		0.4% –1.5%
Iraq (details)	500,000	1.2%		1.2%
Ireland (details)	3,992,000 (2016) [95] nd	83.8% (2016) [95]	78.2% (2016) [95]	5.6% (2016) [95]
Israel (details)	266,000	3.5%		3.5%
Italy (details)	53,230,000 [96]	83.0%	81.2%	2.0%
Jamaica (details)	1,859,000	68.9%	2.2%	66.7%
Japan (details)	1,915,294	1.1% [97]	0.5%	0.6%
Jordan (details)	388,000	6.0% [98]
Kazakhstan (details)	3,300,000	17.2% [99]
Kenya (details)	40,668,000	85.5% [100]	20.6%	64.9%
Korea, North (details)	406,000	1.7%
Korea, South (details)	13,566,000	27.6% [101]	7.9%	19.7%
Kuwait (details)	458,000	15.0%	3.2%	12.8%
Kyrgyzstan (details)	610,000 [28] – 944,000	11.4% [28] – 17.0% [102]
Laos (details)	145,000	2.2%	1.0%	1.0%
Latvia (details)	1,570,000	70.0% [46] – 80.0% [103]	24.1% [46] – 25.1% [103] [104]	46.8% [46] – 54.9% [103]
Lebanon (details)	1,600,000 –1,800,000 [105] [106]	38.0% – 41.0%	26.0%	15.0%
Lesotho (details)	1,876,000	90.0%	45.0%	45.0%
Liberia (details)	1,391,000	85.5% [107]		85.5%
Libya (details)	170,000 [28]	2.7% [28]	0.5%	1.5%
Liechtenstein (details)	30,000	84.4% [108]	75.9%	8.5%
Lithuania (details)	2,232,000	79.4% [109]	74.2%	5.2%
Luxembourg (details)	360,000	72.4% [110]	68.7%	3.7%
Madagascar (details)	22,322,966	85.0% [111]
Malawi (details)	13,582,000	77.3% [112]	17.2%	60.1%
Malaysia (details)	2,271,000	9.0% [113]	41.3%	35.5%
Maldives (details)	300 - 1,400 [114]	0.08%
Mali (details)	348,000	2.4% [115]
Malta (details)	400,000	91.6% [116]	88.6%	3.0%
Mauritania (details)	5,000	0.14%
Mauritius (details)	418,000	32.2%
Mexico (details)	111,959,525	88.9% [117]	77.7%	11.2%
Micronesia, Federated States of (details)	106,000	95.4%
Moldova (details)	2,752,000	91.8% [118]	0.1%	91.7%
Monaco (details)	30,000	82.6% [119]	77.0 [119]
Mongolia (details)	42,859	1.3% [120]
Montenegro (details)	500,000	78.8% [121]	3.4%	72.4%
Morocco (details)	336,000	1.0% [122]
Mozambique (details)	13,121,000	56.1%	28.4%	27.7%
Myanmar (details)	3,790,000	6.2%	1.0%	5.2%
Namibia (details)	1,991,000	90.0%	13.7%	76.3%
Nepal (details)	376,000	1.4% [123]
Netherlands (details)	5,382,883	30.0% (2023) [124]	17.0% (registered, 2023) [124]	13.0% (2023) [125]
New Zealand (details)	1,738,638 (2018) [126]	37.0% (2018) [126]	10.0% (2018) [126]	27.0% (2018) [126]
Nicaragua (details)	5,217,000	84.6%	58.8%	25.8%
Niger (details)	85,000	0.5%		5.0%
Nigeria (details)	74,400,000 – 107,000,000	45.9% [127]	10.6%	35.3%
North Macedonia (details)	1,110,000	60.4% [128] [129]	0.4%	60.0%
Norway (details)	3,844,000 [130]	76.7% (2018) [131] [132]	2.4% [133]	73.8% (2018) [131] [132]
Oman (details)	180,000 [28]	6.5% [28]
Pakistan (details)	3,300,000	1.6% [134]	0.8%	0.8%
Palau (details)	16,000	77.9%	65.0%	12.9%
Panama (details)	3,057,000	92.0%	80.0%	12.0%
Papua New Guinea (details)	6,800,000	97.0%	27.0%	70.0%
Paraguay (details)	6,260,000	96.0% [88]	88.0%	8.0%
Peru (details)	29,519,000	94.5% [135]	76.0%	18.5%
Philippines (details)	92,746,021 [136]	85.3%	78.8%	6.5%
Pitcairn Islands (details)	50	100.0%		100.0%
Poland (details)	36,972,200	92.2% [137]	90.0%	1.2%
Portugal (details)	7,445,000	84.8% [138]	80.2%	4.6%
Puerto Rico (details)	3,878,000	89.0% [139] [140]	56.0%	33.0%
Qatar (details)	263,000	13.8%
Romania (details)	18,067,000	98.0% [46]	11.0% [46]	87.0% [46]
Russia (details)	94,100,000 [141]	64.4% [142]
Rwanda (details)	9,619,000	93.6%	56.9%	26.0%
San Marino (details)	31,000	91.6% [28]	90.5%	1.1%
Saudi Arabia (details)	1,500,000	5.0% [143]
Senegal (details)	570,000	4.2% [144]
Serbia (details)	5,758,719	86.68% [145]	3.87%	82.81%
Seychelles (details)	80,000	94.7%	82.0%	15.2%
Sierra Leone (details)	619,000 – 1,294,000	10.0% [146] –20.9% [147]
Singapore (details)	1,075,000	18.9% [148] [149] [150]	7.0%	11.9%
Slovakia (details)	3,748,000	68.8% [151]	59.8%	9.0%
Slovenia (details)	1,610,000	68.0% [46]	64.0% [46]	4.0% [46]
Somalia (details)	1,000 [152]	0.01%	0.0002%	0.01%
South Africa (details)	52,886,000	85.3% [153]	5.0%	75.0%
South Sudan (details)	6,010,000 [154]	60.5% [155]	30.0%	30.0%
Spain (details)	28,000,000	59.2% [156]	58.2% [156]	1.0% [156]
Sri Lanka (details)	1,531,000	7.4%	6.1%	1.3%
Sudan (details)	525,000	1.5% [157]
Suriname (details)	262,000	48.4% – 51.6% [158] [159]	21.6%	26.8%
Sweden (details)	6,577,478	64.3% [160]	1.2%	63.1%
Switzerland (details)	5,700,000	66.9% [161] – 69.1% [162]	36.5% [161] – 37.9% [162]	30.4% [161] – 31.2% [162]
Syria (details)	1,800,000 [163]	10.0% [28]	2.0%	8.0%
Tajikistan (details)	110,000 [28]	1.4%	0.1%	1.3%
Tanzania (details)	31,342,000	61.4% [164]
Thailand (details)	768,000	1.1% [165]
Timor-Leste (details)	1,338,500 [166]	99.6% [167]	97.6%	2.0%
Togo (details)	1,966,000	29.0%
Tonga (details)	84,000	81.0%	16.0%	65.0%
Trinidad and Tobago (details)	774,000	57.6% [168]	21.5%	33.4%
Tunisia (details)	30,000 [169] [c]
Turkey (details)	120,000 [170] – 310,000 [171]	0.2%
Turkmenistan (details)	466,000	9.0% [172]		9.0%
Uganda (details)	29,266,000	84.5% [173]	39.3%	45.2%
Ukraine (details)	34,830,000 [174]	81.9% [174]	7.5%	74.4%
United Arab Emirates (details)	940,000	9.0% [175]	7.0%	2.0%
United Kingdom (details)	25,585,000 [176] – 31,889,000	38.0% [177] – 47.7% [178] [179] [180]	7.0% [181]	31.0% [181]
United States (details)	213,000,000 [182]	65.0% (2019) [182] – 73.0% [183]	20.0% [182] – 22.7% [183]	45.0% [182] – 48.5% [183]
Uruguay (details)	1,941,000	58.1% [57]	47.0%	11.0%
Uzbekistan (details)	710,000 [28]	2.6% [28]		2.6% [28]
Venezuela (details)	28,340,000	88.0% [184]	71.0%	17.0%
Vietnam (details)	6,831,000	7.1% [185]	6.1%	1.0%
Yemen (details)	25,000 [186] – 41,000 [187]	0.01%	0.01%
Zambia (details)	12,939,000	95.5% [188]	20.2%	72.3%
Zimbabwe (details)	12,500,000	87.0% [189]	17.0%	63.0%
Europe	565,560,000 [7]	76.2% [7]	35.0% [190]	41.2% [7]
Latin America and the Caribbean	531,280,000 [7]	90.0% [7]	70.0% [191]	20.0% [192]
Africa	526,016,926 [7]	62.7% [7]	21.0% [190]	41.7% [7]
Asia	285,120,000 [7] –375,905,000 [193]	7.0% [7] –12.0% [193]	3.0% [190] –5.1% [193]	4.0% [7] –6.8% [193]
North America	266,630,000 [7]	77.4% [7]	22.0% [190]	55.4%
Oceania	25,754,000 [194]	73.3% [194]	38.9% [194]	34.4% [194]
Middle East-North Africa	12,000,000 –16,000,000 [195]	3.8% [7] –5.0% [196]	2.0% [190] –2.6%	1.8% [7] – 2.3%
Total	2,431,209,718 [193]	33.4% [193]	16.9% [193]	16.5% [193]

Other states

State	Christians	% Christian
Abkhazia (details)	130,000	68.0%
Kosovo (details)	150,000	8.7% [197]
Palestine (details)	173,000	3.0% [198]
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (details)	200	0.03%
South Ossetia (details)	69,000	96.4%
Taiwan (details)	902,000	3.9% [199]
Transnistria (details)	510,000	95.0%
Vatican City (details)	836	100.0%

Population growth

Further information: Christian population growth

According to World Population Review, there were 2.38 billion Christians around the world in 2021. ^[200] According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, if current trends continue, Christianity will remain the world's largest religion by year 2050. According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study, Christianity is estimated to reach 3 billion adherents out of a projected population of 9.3 billion people in 2050, achieving parity with Muslim populations for the first time in history, which are predicted to be about 2.8 billion in 2050. ^[201]

Demographics of major traditions within Christianity (Pew Research Center, 2010 data) ^[202]

Tradition	Followers	% of the Christian population	% of the world population	Follower dynamics	Dynamics inside and outside Christianity
Catholicism	1,200,000,000	52.4	15.9	Growing	Stable
Protestantism	800,640,000	34.9	11.6	Growing	Growing
Orthodoxy	260,380,000	11.4	3.8	Growing	Growing
Other Christianity	28,430,000	1.3	0.4	Growing	Growing
Christianity	2,289,450,000	100	31.7	Growing	Stable

See also

• List of Christian denominations by number of members
• Catholic Church by country
• Eastern Orthodoxy by country
• Oriental Orthodoxy by country
• Protestantism by country
• List of the largest Protestant denominations

Other religions:

• Ahmadiyya by country
• Buddhism by country
• Hinduism by country
• Irreligion by country
• Islam by country
• Jewish population by country
• Judaism by country
• Sikhism by country

General:

• List of religious populations

Notes

1. Current sources are in general agreement that Christians make up about 33% of the world's population—slightly over 2.4 billion adherents in mid-2015.
2. The 2020 survey of religion by INSEE was conducted on a nationally representative large sample (≈ 28,000) of people aged 18–49 and 18–59. It is reputed to be representative of the whole population of Metropolitan France, comprising French people without immigrant background, French people with immigrant background since various generations, as well as first-generation immigrant citizens. ^[76]
3. Tunisia's Ministry of Religious Affairs estimates there are approximately 30,000 Christians residing in the country, of which the majority are foreigners and about 80% of whom are Roman Catholic. Approximately 7000 Christians are Tunisian Citizens, mostly Anglicans and other Protestants. ^[169]

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