Christianity is still the world’s largest religion, but the world is changing (for the worse)

 According to Pew’s latest ‘Religious Composition by Country’ data, the first such compilation of data in a decade, New Zealand and Uruguay are the only countries where the largest religious group changed between 2010 and 2020. But with Christianity already below 50% in the UK, Australia and France, future updates could add more countries to that list.

Christianity dominates the map across the Americas, Europe, much of sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania. Islam forms another striking geographic belt, stretching from West Africa through the Middle East and into Central and South Asia.

The United States maintains a Christian majority at 64.0% of its population, while Canada stands at 53.3%. In the United Kingdom, the share of self-identifying Christians falls just short of a majority at 49.4%.

Yemen and Afghanistan are the most religiously uniform places on the map, at 99.9% Muslim, just ahead of the 99.5% Christian shares in Timor-Leste and Moldova...<<<<Read More>>>....