This link gives Demographic Statistics for Christians as a %age of World Population over the last 225 years, with projections upto 2025.
http://christianityinview.com/religion-statistics.html
Graph and Table in the link. Some salient points below:
In 1800, there were around 200 MN Christians out of 900 MN World Population (22%). Muslims were 90 MN (10%). Hindus 108 (12%).
In 1900, Christians increased to 560 MN out of 1.62 BN World Population (34%). By 2025, it's projected to be 2.7 BN out of 8.2 BN (33%).
Now, by 1900, Christianity increased significantly, which is good, to 34%. After that, though, for the last 120 years, it has stagnated around that %age, if not declined. Why do you think that is, dear friends? Why didn't it increase by 12 more percentage points like the previous century? Or, if we consider the rate of increase itself, 34/22=1.54X. If, from 34%, it had increased another 1.5X(times), more than 50% of the world (52.3%) of the world would be Christian today. So, what went wrong? Atheism/Agnosticism/Evolution? "Free Love" movement of the 1960s in the west? Communist Revolution in Russia and China, which promoted Atheism? One or more of the above, or else what? Less Missionaries going to foreign majority non-Christian countries? Inter-denominational squabbles rather than Evangelism of the lost?
We should analyze this important issue imo here, so hopefully the future, e.g. the next 30 years, to 2050, can be different from the past. God won't ask any of us, to be sure, about any of the mistakes our ancestors in the Faith may have made. But He will ask us what we did with the time given to us and whether we made good use of it to promote unity among Christian believers and help Evangelize the lost.
Thoughts? God Bless.
http://christianityinview.com/religion-statistics.html
Graph and Table in the link. Some salient points below:
In 1800, there were around 200 MN Christians out of 900 MN World Population (22%). Muslims were 90 MN (10%). Hindus 108 (12%).
In 1900, Christians increased to 560 MN out of 1.62 BN World Population (34%). By 2025, it's projected to be 2.7 BN out of 8.2 BN (33%).
Now, by 1900, Christianity increased significantly, which is good, to 34%. After that, though, for the last 120 years, it has stagnated around that %age, if not declined. Why do you think that is, dear friends? Why didn't it increase by 12 more percentage points like the previous century? Or, if we consider the rate of increase itself, 34/22=1.54X. If, from 34%, it had increased another 1.5X(times), more than 50% of the world (52.3%) of the world would be Christian today. So, what went wrong? Atheism/Agnosticism/Evolution? "Free Love" movement of the 1960s in the west? Communist Revolution in Russia and China, which promoted Atheism? One or more of the above, or else what? Less Missionaries going to foreign majority non-Christian countries? Inter-denominational squabbles rather than Evangelism of the lost?
We should analyze this important issue imo here, so hopefully the future, e.g. the next 30 years, to 2050, can be different from the past. God won't ask any of us, to be sure, about any of the mistakes our ancestors in the Faith may have made. But He will ask us what we did with the time given to us and whether we made good use of it to promote unity among Christian believers and help Evangelize the lost.
Thoughts? God Bless.
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