Updates

The World Religion database is updated twice a year, following research cycles.

Global Christianity

01 Jan 2012

Pew Forum reports on Christianity

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life have released another in a series of reports on global religions, this time Christianity.
Much of the census and survey data analysed in the report are available in the World Religion Database, or will be within the year, together with the WRD's own best estimates which were used in the report for places where censuses and survey data alone was inadequate.
See the full report at the Pew research website.

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Future of the Global Muslim Population

01 Oct 2011

Pew Forum reports on Islam

Data has been added from "The Future of the Global Muslim Population" report by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

The data includes the Muslim percentage of each country for 1990 and 2000 as well as Pew projections for 2010-2030.

See also the full report
at the Pew research website.

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