Christian population growth

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Christian population growth is the population growth of the global Christian community. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were more than 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, more than three times as many as the 600 million recorded in 1910. However, this rate of growth is slower than the overall population growth over the same time period.[1] In 2020, Pew estimated the number of Christians worldwide to be around 2.38 billion.[2] According to various scholars and sources, high birth rates and conversions in the Global South were cited as the reasons for the Christian population growth.[3][4][5][6][7][8] In 2023, it was reported: "There will be over 2.38 billion Christians worldwide by the middle of 2023 and around 2.9 billion by 2050, according to a report published by Pew Pew research centre.

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  2. ^ "Religion Information Data Explorer | GRF". www.globalreligiousfutures.org. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  3. ^ "The List: The World's Fastest-Growing Religions". Foreign Policy. 14 May 2007. Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2020. Behind the trend: High birthrates and conversions in the global South.
  4. ^ W. Kling, David (2020). A History of Christian Conversion. Oxford University Press. pp. 586–587. ISBN 9780195320923.
  5. ^ R. Ross, Kenneth (2017). Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity. Edinburgh University Press. p. 17. ISBN 9781474412049.
  6. ^ Woodhea, Linda (2004). An Introduction to Christianity. Cambridge University Press. p. 386. ISBN 9780521786553. Growth is related not only to conversion but also to a high rate of population growth.
  7. ^ Tomalin, Emma (2013). Religions and Development. Routledge. p. 6. ISBN 9781136827488.
  8. ^ R.V, Dmitriev (2018). African Studies in Russia: Works of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yearbook 2014-2016. MeaBooks Inc. p. 60. ISBN 9781988391069. Consequently, conversion influences the growth of the Christian community to a far greater degree than the Muslim one, delivering nearly 29% of the Christian population's annual growth.