This post was republished with permission from Zero Hedge
There are 2.2 billion Christians in the world, which means one out of every four people is a Christian.
The visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, compares the 25 countries with the largest Christian populations, revealing how demographic trends, migration, and conversion have shaped Christianity’s current global footprint.
The data for this ranking comes from the CIA World Factbook, Pew Research and UN World Population Prospects.
Estimated religious shares between 2020–2024 from the first two sources are applied to 2025 population figures to arrive at an estimated for number of Christians in each country.
The Americas Are Christianity Central
With more than 219 million Christians, the U.S. remains the single largest Christian nation.
Although its Christian share has fallen for decades, the overall population continues to grow, keeping the country firmly at the top of the list.
Note: Includes all denominations.
Brazil (169 million) and Mexico (118 million) rank second and third.
Both countries have historically been Catholic strongholds, though Brazil has witnessed a rapid rise in evangelical denominations over the past generation.
Together, the three giants account for nearly a quarter of all Christians worldwide.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s is Reshaping the Christian Faith
Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, and Kenya illustrate Christianity’s fast-growing presence south of the Sahara.
Nigeria alone has about 109 million Christians, almost equal to the entire population of the Philippines.
High fertility rates and youthful demographics mean Africa’s share of global Christians will keep rising well past 2050.
Most of these African nations also have large non-Christian populations.
Nigeria is almost evenly split between Christians and Muslims, while Ethiopia’s Christian majority coexists with a sizable Muslim minority.
Minority Christian Communities in Population Giants
China and India appear in the ranking despite Christians making up only 5% and 2% of their populations, respectively.
Sheer population size—over 1.4 billion people each—translates into tens of millions of believers even when Christianity is a small minority.
The presence of 72 million Chinese and 34 million Indian Christians underscores how religious minorities can still represent significant global communities.
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I must have missed seeing Canada on the list … Ohhhhhh … you were counting Christians, not Punjabi’s and Hindus.
Obvious BS. Millions of people claiming they are “christian” has not more meaning than men claiming they are a “woman”.
Just saying words doesn’t make it so.
And they have all been lied to about everything. The sad reality is that Jesus returned in 70 AD and setup his kingdom for a thousand years. It was called Tartaria and appeared on plenty of old maps. Satan took over from 1776 with foundation of the USA who got independence from Jesus, the formation of the illuminati and the french revolution being a number of examples. They also added 700 years to our timeline. Rome fell in 70 AD with jeruselum and Jesus kingdom started in 76 AD. There will be no rapture, no defeat of the parasites with jesus coming in the sky. After jesus and his church left, the streets were barron and out of those who remained, a large proportion were put in asylums to shut them up. Then the orphan trains started running and those who worship lucifer began to deconstruct the kingdom of jesus like it never happened. There are coins from his reign marked with a j followed by the year and tartarian building had there dates altered. 1776 was the year of introduction of al instead of ad as well, the l standing for lucifer. We are in satans little season folks and have been for the last 250 years. Oh and the statue of liberty is a statue of lucifer and there were no dark ages. They have completely rewritten our history. We are the descendent of the people left behind. Freemasonary is satanic and george washington was a freemason. That is the truth whether you want to accept it or not. The facts and evidence dont lie when you look into it. That is why everything is satanic now.
Nutcase.
Now you know why your lineage is still here and not in Heaven.