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Status of Global Mission, 2001, in context of 20th and 21st centuries
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Year:	1900	1970	2000	mid-2001	2025
WORLD POPULATION
1. Total population	1,619,626,000	3,696,148,000	6,055,049,000	6,128,512,000	7,823,703,000
2. Urban dwellers (urbanites)	232,695,000	1,353,370,000	2,881,079,000	2,916,034,000	4,611,677,000
3. Rural dwellers	1,386,931,000	2,342,778,000	3,173,970,000	3,212,478,000	3,212,026,000
4. Adult population (over 15s)	1,074,058,000	2,310,543,000	4,254,647,000	4,328,571,000	5,987,079,000
5. Literates	296,258,000	1,475,194,000	3,261,345,000	3,318,010,000	5,046,637,000
6. Nonliterates	777,800,000	835,349,000	993,302,000	1,010,561,000	940,442,000
WORLDWIDE EXPANSION OF CITIES
7. Metropolises (over 100,000 population)	300	2,400	4,050	4,100	6,500
8. Megacities (over 1 million population)	20	161	402	410	650
9. Urban poor	100 million	650 million	1,400 million	1,440 million	3,000 million
10. Urban slumdwellers	20 million	260 million	700 million	720 million	1,500 million
WORLD POPULATION BY RELIGION
11. Christians (total all kinds) (=World C)	558,132,000	1,236,374,000	1,999,564,000	2,024,929,000	2,616,670,000
12. Muslims	199,941,000	553,528,000	1,188,243,000	1,213,370,000	1,784,876,000
13. Nonreligious	3,024,000	532,096,000	768,159,000	774,333,000	875,121,000
14. Hindus	203,003,000	462,598,000	811,336,000	823,843,000	1,049,231,000
15. Buddhists	127,077,000	233,424,000	359,982,000	363,740,000	418,345,000
16. Atheists	226,000	165,400,000	150,090,000	150,447,000	159,544,000
17. New-Religionists	5,910,000	77,762,000	102,356,000	103,313,000	114,720,000
18. Ethnoreligionists	117,558,000	160,278,000	228,367,000	231,335,000	277,247,000
19. Sikhs	2,962,000	10,618,000	23,258,000	23,687,000	31,378,000
20. Jews	12,292,000	14,763,000	14,434,000	14,552,000	16,053,000
21. Non-Christians (=Worlds A and B)	1,061,494,000	2,459,774,000	4,055,485,000	4,103,583,000	5,207,033,000
GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY
22. Total Christians as % of world (=World C)	34.5	33.5	33.0	33.0	33.4
23. Unaffiliated church members	36,489,000	106,268,000	111,125,000	111,850,000	125,712,000
24. Affiliated church members	521,643,000	1,130,106,000	1,888,439,000	1,913,079,000	2,490,958,000
25. Crypto-Christians	3,571,000	59,195,000	123,727,000	126,421,000	190,490,000
26. Great Commission Christians	77,931,000	277,152,000	647,821,000	657,163,000	887,579,000
27. Church attenders	469,303,000	885,777,000	1,359,420,000	1,373,554,000	1,760,568,000
28. Evangelicals	71,726,000	93,449,000	210,603,000	214,219,000	327,835,000
29. evangelicals	77,931,000	277,152,000	647,821,000	657,163,000	887,579,000
30. Pentecostals/Charismatics	981,000	72,223,000	523,767,000	533,581,000	811,552,000
31. Average Christian martyrs per year	35,600	230,000	165,000	167,000	210,000
MEMBERSHIP BY 6 ECCLESIASTICAL MEGABLOCS
32. Anglicans	30,571,000	47,501,000	79,650,000	80,717,000	113,746,000
33. Independents	7,931,000	95,605,000	385,745,000	394,102,000	581,642,000
34. Marginal Christians	928,000	11,100,000	26,060,000	26,526,000	45,555,000
35. Orthodox	115,844,000	139,662,000	215,129,000	216,247,000	252,716,000
36. Protestants	103,024,000	210,759,000	342,002,000	346,650,000	468,633,000
37. Roman Catholics	266,548,000	665,954,000	1,057,328,000	1,070,437,000	1,361,965,000
MEMBERSHIP BY 6 CONTINENTS
38. Africa	8,756,000	117,069,000	335,116,000	343,886,000	600,526,000
39. Asia (new UN definition)	20,759,000	97,329,000	307,288,000	313,795,000	459,029,000
40. Europe (new UN definition)	368,210,000	468,480,000	536,832,000	537,244,000	532,861,000
41. Latin America	60,027,000	263,597,000	475,659,000	483,121,000	635,271,000
42. Northern America	59,570,000	168,932,000	212,167,000	213,893,000	235,112,000
43. Oceania	4,322,000	14,699,000	21,375,000	21,635,000	28,152,000
CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS
44. Service agencies	1,500	14,100	23,000	23,500	40,000
45. Foreign-mission sending agencies	600	2,200	4,000	4,100	6,000
46. Standalone global monoliths	35	62	80	85	300
CHRISTIAN WORKERS
47. Nationals (all denominations)	1,050,000	2,350,000	5,104,000	5,154,000	6,500,000
48. Aliens (foreign missionaries)	62,000	240,000	420,000	425,000	550,000
CHRISTIAN FINANCE (in U.S. $, per year)
49. Personal income of church members, $	270 billion	4,100 billion	15,198 billion	15,500 billion	26,000 billion
50. Personal income of Pentecostals/Charismatics, $	250,000,000	157 billion	3,508 billion	3,650 billion	9,500 billion
51. Giving to Christian causes, $	8 billion	70 billion	270 billion	280 billion	870 billion
52. Churches' income, $	7 billion	50 billion	108 billion	110 billion	300 billion
53. Parachurch and institutional income, $	1 billion	20 billion	162 billion	170 billion	570 billion
54. Ecclesiastical crime, $	300,000	5,000,000	16 billion	17 billion	65 billion
55. Income of global foreign missions, $	200,000,000	3.0 billion	15 billion	16 billion	60 billion
56. Computers in Christian use (numbers)	0	1,000	400,000,000	424,000,000	1.7 billion
CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
57. New commercial book titles per year	2,200	17,100	25,000	26,100	70,000
58. Christian periodicals	3,500	23,000	35,000	36,500	100,000
59. New books/articles on evangelization p.a.	500	3,100	16,000	17,100	80,000
SCRIPTURE DISTRIBUTION (all sources)
60. Bibles per year (p.a.)	5,452,600	25,000,000	53,700,000	56,400,000	180,000,000
61. New Testaments per year (p.a.)	7,300,000	45,000,000	120,700,000	124,300,000	250,000,000
62. Scriptures including gospels, selections, p.a.	20 million	281 million	4,600 million	4,700 million	8,000 million
CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING
63. Christian radio/TV stations	0	1,230	4,000	4,050	5,400
64. Total monthly listeners/viewers	0	750,000,000	2,150,000,000	2,200,000,000	3,800,000,000
65. for Christian stations	0	150,000,000	600,000,000	619,000,000	1,300,000,000
66. for secular stations	0	650,000,000	1,810,000,000	1,842,000,000	2,800,000,000
CHRISTIAN URBAN MISSION
67. Non-Christian megacities	5	65	226	229	300
68. New non-Christian urban dwellers per day	5,200	51,100	129,000	131,300	200,000
69. Urban Christians	159,600,000	660,800,000	1,160,000,000	1,178,000,000	1,720,000,000
CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM
70. Evangelism-hours per year	5 billion	25 billion	165 billion	172 billion	425 billion
71. Hearer-hours per year	10 billion	99 billion	938 billion	1,000 billion	4,250 billion
72. Disciple-opportunities per capita per year	6	27	155	163	529
WORLD EVANGELIZATION
73. Unevangelized population (=World A)	879,672,000	1,641,245,000	1,629,375,000	1,637,509,710	1,845,406,000
74. Unevangelized as % of world	54.3	44.4	26.9	26.7	23.6
75. World evangelization plans since AD 30	250	510	1,500	1,540	3,000