Christian Number-Crunching - George Weigel - February 9, 2011

Reprinted by George Weigel with permission from InsideCatholic.com

By mid-2011, there will be 2,306,609,000 Christians of all kinds in the world, representing 33 percent of world population.

These 2.3 billion Christians can be divided into six "ecclesiastical megablocks": 

     1,160,880,000     Catholics; 

        426,450,000     Protestants; 

        271,316,000     Orthodox; 

          87,520,000     Anglicans; 

        378,281,000   "Independents" (i.e., those separated from or unaffiliated 

                                                  with  historic denominational Christianity); and
          35,539,000   "marginal Christians" (i.e., those professing off-brand 

                                                 Trinitarian theology, dubiousChristology,
                                                 supplementary written revelation beyond the Bible).