Worldwide slightly more than 1 in 10 Christians live in the United States.
As of 2015, there were 2,276,250,000 Christians with 248,148,00 (or 10.9%) residing in the United States.
Perspective
While a higher percentage of people in some other large nations are Christian (e.g., 88.5% in Brazil), the United States is home to more Christians than any other nation. More than 3 out of 4 Americans (76.9%) are Christian.
So What?
Yesterday much of the focus on American Christianity was rightly on the celebration of Easter. Many stories included pictures of overfull sacred spaces.
In recent years the biggest story in American religion has been the ongoing growth in the religiously non-affiliated often now simply called the nones. Despite their growth, the United States is projected to remain home to more Christians than any other nation for the next 40+ years. While retaining our place atop that list projections suggest that the percentage of the population identifying as Christian will drop to 64.9% by 2060.
- What, if anything, in this post challenged your assumptions about Christianity in the United States?
- How has your experience of Christianity changed over your lifetime? Given what you know, how do you expect it to change in the decades ahead?