According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, the global Christian population totals 2.5 billion people. To help in the comprehension of that number, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Center for the Study of Global Christianity (@CSGC) has compressed it into this graphic as if 100 Christians represented all of global Christianity:

• 67 would live in Asia, Africa, Latin America or Oceania
• 33 would live in Europe or Northern America
• 65 would live in urban areas
• 35 would live in rural areas
• 16 would speak Spanish as their first language
• 10 English
• 8 Portuguese
• 5 Russian
• 3 Mandarin Chinese
• 64 would be between the ages of 15–64
• 26 would be under 15
• 11 would be illiterate
• 35 would have little to no access to secondary education
• 53 would have access to the internet
• 14 would have no access to safe water
• 5 would have malaria
• 79 would live in countries with moderate to high corruption
• 35 would live in countries with low development
• 63 live on $10–100 a day
• 34 would have inadequate access to doctors

According to these statistics, the typical Christian today is a non-white woman living in the global South, with lower-than-average levels of societal safety and proper health care. This represents a vastly different typical Christian than that of 100 years ago, who was likely a white, affluent European.

Read the Bible Gateway Blog posts:

• Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Infographic: The Status of Christianity Around the World
• Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, The Bible and the Spread of Christianity: An Interview with Brian Stiller
• Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, The Biography of Christianity: An Interview with Ian Shaw
• Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, The Unexpected Christian Century: An Interview with Scott Sunquist

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