Christianity by country
According to Christian Today, there were 2.4 billion Christians around the world in 2015. And according to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, if current trends continue, Christianity will remain the world's largest religion by year 2050. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. Many charismatic movements are growing in Africa, Latin America, Muslim world, and Asia.Other religions:
Anglican Frontier Missions
Anglican Frontier Missions exists because the church does not yet exist in every ethno-linguistic nation of the world. Some geo-political nations, like Nigeria, which is made up of 537 ethno-linguistic nations, waited 1800 years for the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. Some 6,000 more ethno-linguistic nations are still waiting. Even though 67 generations have come and gone since Jesus' resurrection, still over 2.0 billion people are unreached with the Gospel. This unseen quarter of the world has no geographic and/or cultural access (or infinitesimally limited access) to churches and Christians. In spite of the great advances made by missionaries over the years, 1/4 of the world’s entire population still has not encountered a Christian, let alone the Gospel itself. These people will likely never have a chance to hear the Gospel before they die, unless intentional efforts are made to reach them. Yet only 3% of the Church’s missionaries and 0.1% of its resources are going to evangelize these unreached people groups. The two countries that send the most missionaries—the US and Brazil—are also the two countries that receive the most missionaries.
The plight of the Gentile nations during St. Paul’s time remains the plight of unreached nations today. They can’t put their faith in Jesus if they’ve never been told about him, and they can’t be told about him unless Christians go to them with the good news. But less than 1% of the Church’s mission resources are being used to reach them. The 10 countries in the world containing 73% of the world’s unreached peoples receive only 9% of all international missionaries. Meanwhile, 40% of mission resources go to 10 other countries which are oversaturated with gospel presence. Why the large disparity between the need and our response? The answer to this question is another question: “How can we send unless someone tells us about the unreached in the first place?” 70% of bible-believing Christians—people who know and take the Great Commission seriously—have never been told that over one-fourth of the world’s population has yet to come into contact with Christians who can tell them the good news of Jesus Christ.