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World Mission Statistics
All of the following statistics are from the following source and used with their permission: Todd M. Johnson
Director, Center for the Study of Global Christianity
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
130 Essex St., Box 201
South Hamilton, MA 01982
Office Phone: 978-646-4194
Office Fax: 978-646-4572
Website: www.globalchristianity.org Worlds A, B, C: Evangelism and Material WealthWorld Evangelization Research Center
Pointing the way to the least evangelized
THE UNEVANGELIZED WORLD:(38 countries each less than half evangelized, i.e. less than 50%)1,629,375,000 unevangelized persons 29.6% of global population12.1% of global income11.4% of all telephones13.3% of all TV sets2.8% of all computers
THE EVANGELIZED NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD:(59 countries over half evangelized but with church members less than 60%)
2.4 billion evangelized non-Christians
500 million evangelized but unreached non-Christians
40.1% of global population
35.3% of global income
27.8% of all telephones
34.7% of all TV sets
23.4% of all computers
THE CHRISTIAN WORLD:
(141 countries with church members 60% or over, evangelized 95% or over)
2 billion Christians
33% of global population
Christians receive, own, and/or use:
52.6% of global income
60.8% of all telephones
47.0% of all TV sets
73.8% of all computers (70% of all being owned and operated by Christians)
Christians spend:
99.9% of Christian income on themselves
0.09% on the Evangelized Non-Christian World
0.01% on the Unevangelized World
World Evangelization Research Center
Pointing the way to the least evangelized An AD 2001 reality check: New facts and figures about trends and issues concerning empirical global Christianity today:
- At a steady rate over the last 20 centuries, and in all 238 countries, 70 million Christians have been martyred (killed, executed, murdered) for Christ.
- Emboldened by lax procedures, trusted church treasurers are embezzling each year $16 billion out of church funds, but only 5% ever get found out.
- Annual church embezzlements by top custodians exceed the entire cost of all foreign missions worldwide.
- Christians spend more on the annual audits of their churches and agencies ($810 million) than on all their workers in the non-Christian world.
- The total cost of Christian outreach averages $330,000 for each and every newly baptized person.
- Despite Christ’s command to evangelize, 67% of all humans from AD 30 to the present day have never even heard of his name.
- A huge new Christian non-confessional mega-bloc, the Independents/Post-denominationalists, is growing rapidly and numbers 19% of all Christians.
- These 386 million Independents in 220 countries have no interest in and no use for historic denominationalist Christianity.
- From only 3 million in AD 1500, evangelicals have grown to 648 million worldwide, 54% being Non-Whites.
- The country with the fastest Christian expansion ever is China, now at 10,000 new converts every day.
- Everywhere on Earth can now easily be targeted with at least 3 of the 45 varieties of effective evangelism.
- 40% of the church’s entire global foreign mission resources are being deployed to just 10 over-saturated countries already possessing strong citizen-run home ministries
- From only one million in AD 1900, Pentecostals, Charismatics, and Neo-charismatics have mushroomed to 524 million affiliated (with unaffiliated believers, 602 million).
- Some 250 of the 300 largest international Christian organizations regularly mislead the Christian public by publishing demonstrably incorrect or falsified progress statistics.
Evangelization of Worlds A, B, C
World Evangelization Research Center
Pointing the way to the least evangelized
A. THE UNEVANGELIZED WORLD - Present cost of Christian foreign missions: $250 million a year
- 26 restricted-access (closed) countries
- 10,200 foreign missionaries (2.4%)
- No citywide evangelistic campaigns
- 20,500 full-time Christian workers
- 50,000 lay Christians residing abroad in closed countries
- 0.1% of all Christian literature
- 0.1% of all Christian radio/TV
B. THE EVANGELIZED NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD
- Per capita income of non-Christians: $3,380 p.a.
- Present cost of Christian foreign missions: $1,750 million a year
- 103,000 foreign missionaries (24.5%), 5,000 being in
31 restricted-access countries - 300 cities per year have citywide evangelistic campaigns
- 1.31 million full-time Christian workers, 330,000 being in 31 restricted-access countries
- 8.9% of all Christian literature
- 3.9% of all Christian radio/TV
C. THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
- Present cost of home Christianity: $163 billion a year
- Foreign missions to other Christian lands: $13 billion a year
- 306,000 foreign missionaries to other Christian lands (73.1%), 4,000 being in 29 restricted-access countries
- 1,300 cities per year have citywide evangelistic campaigns
- 4.19 million full-time Christian workers (95%) work in
World C, including 480,000 in 29 restricted-access countries - 500 million lay Christians live in 29 restricted-access heavily-Christian countries
- 91% of all Christian literature is consumed by World C
- 96% of all Christian radio/TV output is directed at World C
TOTAL PERSONS: AD 33-2000 All persons born since AD 33: 36,673 million All persons evangelized since AD 33: 12,105 million (33% of human race) All Christians since AD 33: 8,344 million (23% of human race) All martyrs killed since AD 33: 69,420,000 Martyrs as % all Christians ever: 0.8% Martyrs among all Christian leaders ever: 2.0%
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