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Christianity by country
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As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population.[2] According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.[lower-alpha 1][3][4][5][6][7] It represents nearly one-third of the world's population and is the largest religion in the world, with the three largest groups of Christians being the Catholic Church, Protestantism, and the Eastern Orthodox Church.[8] The largest Christian denomination is the Catholic Church, with 1.3 billion baptized members.[9] The second largest Christian branch is either Protestantism (if it is considered a single group), or the Eastern Orthodox Church (if Protestants are considered to be divided into multiple denominations).
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Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania.[10] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines.[11]
Christianity in multiple forms is the state religion of the following 15 nations: Argentina (Catholic Church),[12] Armenia (Armenian Apostolic Church), Tuvalu (Church of Tuvalu), Costa Rica (Catholic Church),[13] Kingdom of Denmark (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark),[14] England (Church of England),[15] Greece (Church of Greece), Georgia (Eastern Orthodox Church),[16][17] Iceland (Church of Iceland),[18] Liechtenstein (Catholic Church),[19] Malta (Catholic Church),[20] Monaco (Catholic Church),[21] Vatican City (Catholic Church),[22] and Zambia. Christianity used to be the state religion of the former Ethiopian Empire (adopted in 340 A.D. by the Kingdom of Aksum) prior to the government's overthrow.[23]