what percentage of the world population believes in the christian faith?

Hi frycek-ga:

Well, I did some searching for this statistic and I must say that
pretty much every figure I was able to find agreed that about 33% of
the world's population is Christian. (That's about 2 billion people,
give or take.) This is also consistently the largest religious group
by percentage.

Some up-to-date sites I found that agree with 33% include:

* adherents.com - a site set up to do little else but compile such
statistics.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

* ReligiousTolerance.com - while apparently a Christian site, their
figures looked reliable too.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm

* infoplease.com - a "family education network"
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904108.html

* Population Connection - a non-profit organization working to slow
the planet's population growth.
http://www.populationconnection.org/Communications/ED2002WEB/WorldOneHundredDataMaster.pdf

I hope this puts your mind at ease about this question. If you need
any clarification, please ask.

Thanks. 

websearcher-ga

Search Strategy on Google:
religions population
world religions percentages

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Clarification of Answer by websearcher-ga on 12 Aug 2002 19:55 PDT

P.S. Each of these sites above also lists percentages for other belief
systems, if you're interested.

Hello frycek,

Forgive me for going off topic, but I noticed that this identical
question was posted twice within a few minutes. As this seems to be
happening more and more here at Google Answers, I thought I would ask
how this happens.

Was there something that lead you to believe that your question had
not been posted the first time? Was there something that was
accidently clicked twice?

I'd sincerely appreciate if you could assist me in understanding just
how double posts are happening here so that perhaps we can find a
solution and minimize inconvenience to both the poster and the
research team.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Regards,

-=clouseau-ga=-