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How many Spanish speaking Christins are there in the world?
Category: Relationships and Society Asked by: mickm-ga List Price: $10.00 |
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15 Apr 2006 09:27 PDT
Expires: 15 May 2006 09:27 PDT Question ID: 719189 |
What is the number of spanish speakinh Christians in the world? ( in terms of millions and per cent of world's population. Use any def. of Christian widely accepted by sociologist of religion and any definition of Spanishing speaking widely used by scholars. |
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Re: How many Spanish speaking Christins are there in the world?
From: geof-ga on 16 Apr 2006 09:47 PDT |
This is not intended as an authoritative answer, and is simply based on my own knowledge and some fairly basic Googling. First, it isn't clear whether you are referring to Christians who speak Spanish as their first language, or wish to include those who speak Spanish as a second language. However, according to this website - http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/january/Spanish.html - in 1999 there were about 352 million first-language Spanish speakers, and about 417 million if Spanish as a second-language is included. Allowing for about 1.5%p.a. increase in population, those figures have probably increased to about 380 million and 450 million, respectively, today. I would say that the vast majority of those people are nominally Christian, but I doubt if anyone has any precise statistics, especially for the figure including second-language Spanish-speakers. The statistics for Christians in Spain and Mexico, which have the largest populations of Spanish-speakers, indicate that 90% would be a reasonable working assumption, which would bring the overall figures down to about 340 and 400 million, respectively. Since the total world population is at present about 6,500 million; this would mean that Christians speaking Spanish as their native language would be about 5% of the world population; and those speaking Spanish as their native or second language would be 6%. |
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Re: How many Spanish speaking Christins are there in the world?
From: pugwashjw65-ga on 18 Apr 2006 01:24 PDT |
Spain had 104,170 'publishers', [Jehovah's Witnesses speaking to people door to door]. This figure is taken from the 2005 world report published by the ' Watchtower' society. It is taken that all speak Spanish. This figure relates to Spain, and does not include Spanish speaking congregations in other countries. Considering that Spain is a major ' mainly Catholic' country, the figure is amazing when compared to the Australian total of publishers at 61,444. A genuine number could be calculated from visiting Catholic and Protestant websites, and adding them to the above, very accurate, figures. |
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