The Pew Research Center has released an interesting report with comprehensive estimates of the world Christian population in 2010. Overall there are nearly 2.2 billion Christians, representing almost a third of the world's population.
The world Christian population has nearly quadrupled in the last century and has maintained its position as the largest faith in the world, ahead of Islam with approximately 1.6 billion adherents. However the distribution of Christians has shifted dramatically towards the developing world.
There are 800 million Protestant Christians, representing 37% of the total. 50% of Christians are Catholic, 12% are Orthodox and 1% are other (including groups that self-identify as Christian such as Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses).
The report also estimates that 10% of Protestants are Lutheran, which would imply approximately 80 million Lutherans worldwide.
Click below to access the report:
Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population
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