According to Douglas Jacobsen in his The World’s Christians, this is the percentage breakdown of Christians in the world in 1800, 1900 and 2000.

Year 1800

• 86% – Europe & North America
• 14% – rest of the world

Year 1900

• 80% – Europe & North America
• 20% – rest of the world

Year 2000

• 40% – Europe & North America
• 60% – rest of the world

What an amazing shift in the past 100 years!

Now moving on to some wider religious stats.

According to Daniel Groody’s Globalization, Spirituality & Justice (3rd edition from 2015). If the world as we know it was reduced to a village of 100 people, this is how it would be structured according to faith perspectives:

33 Christian
20 Muslim
14 Atheist/Agnostic/Non-Religious
13 Hindu
13 Other Religions
6 Buddhist
1 Jewish