The Zenit website reports today (December 27, 2011) that -- based on the findings of a report published last week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life -- Christians account for almost a third of the world's population.
The data from the 2010 survey of more than 200 countries found that worldwide, there are 2.18 billion Christians -- nearly a third of the estimated global population at that time of 6.9 billion.
Christians remain the world's largest religious group. Muslims account for a little under a quarter of the world's population.
According to the Pew Report, there are 1.1 billion Roman Catholics worldwide; about 260 million Greek Orthodox Christians worldwide; and about 801 million Protestants worldwide.
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