Religion Facts

• Women make up 56 percent of the adult born-again population.
• Brazil is the largest Catholic country in the world.
• Born-again Christians are more likely than the average adult to have volunteered their time to help their church in the past week (32 percent to 22 percent, respectively).
• Nearly half of all Americans who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior do so before reaching the age of 13 (43 percent), and two out of three born-again Christians (64 percent) made that commitment to Christ before their 18th birthday.
• Approximately 69 percent of Americans believe that God is the all-powerful, all-knowing, perfect Creator who rules the world today.

Religion around the world is broken down like this:

• 33 percent of the people in the world are Christians.
• 21 percent of the people in the world are Muslims.
• 13 percent of the people in the world are Hindus.
• 6 percent of the people in the world are Buddhists.
• 2.3 percent of the people of the world are atheists.
• 0.4 percent of the people of the world are Sikhs.
• 0.2 percent of the people of the world are Jewish.
• 0.1 percent of the people of the world are Baha'is.
• 12 percent of the people of the world are of other religions.
• 12 percent of the people in the world are nonreligious.