{
  "name": "Christianity by country (The Living Bread)",
  "source": "Curated from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata, and Pew Research Center.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "url": "https://living-bread.org/research/christianity-by-country",
  "records": [
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      "country": "Romania",
      "christian_share_pct": 99.0,
      "population": 19053815,
      "christians_estimate": 18863276,
      "churches_mapped": 385,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2010"
    },
    {
      "country": "Zambia",
      "christian_share_pct": 98.0,
      "population": 19610769,
      "christians_estimate": 19218553,
      "churches_mapped": 340,
      "christian_share_source": "Zambia census",
      "source_year": "2022"
    },
    {
      "country": "the Democratic Republic of the Congo",
      "christian_share_pct": 96.3,
      "population": 105789731,
      "christians_estimate": 101875510,
      "churches_mapped": 368,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2020"
    },
    {
      "country": "Colombia",
      "christian_share_pct": 92.0,
      "population": 52321152,
      "christians_estimate": 48135459,
      "churches_mapped": 374,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2010"
    },
    {
      "country": "the Philippines",
      "christian_share_pct": 91.5,
      "population": 112729484,
      "christians_estimate": 103147477,
      "churches_mapped": 359,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2020"
    },
    {
      "country": "Mexico",
      "christian_share_pct": 89.2,
      "population": 132274416,
      "christians_estimate": 117988779,
      "churches_mapped": 377,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2020"
    },
    {
      "country": "Kenya",
      "christian_share_pct": 85.5,
      "population": 48468138,
      "christians_estimate": 41440257,
      "churches_mapped": 367,
      "christian_share_source": "Kenya Population and Housing Census",
      "source_year": "2019"
    },
    {
      "country": "South Africa",
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      "population": 62027503,
      "christians_estimate": 52909460,
      "churches_mapped": 546,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2020"
    },
    {
      "country": "Ukraine",
      "christian_share_pct": 85.0,
      "population": 41167335,
      "christians_estimate": 34992234,
      "churches_mapped": 306,
      "christian_share_source": "Kyiv International Institute of Sociology survey",
      "source_year": "2022"
    },
    {
      "country": "Uganda",
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      "christians_estimate": 38641295,
      "churches_mapped": 321,
      "christian_share_source": "Uganda Bureau of Statistics census",
      "source_year": "2024"
    },
    {
      "country": "Ireland",
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      "christians_estimate": 4170802,
      "churches_mapped": 345,
      "christian_share_source": "Census of Ireland",
      "source_year": "2022"
    },
    {
      "country": "Brazil",
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      "population": 213421037,
      "christians_estimate": 172230776,
      "churches_mapped": 684,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2020"
    },
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      "country": "Italy",
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      "christians_estimate": 47374827,
      "churches_mapped": 399,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2020"
    },
    {
      "country": "Ghana",
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      "christian_share_source": "Ghana census",
      "source_year": "2021"
    },
    {
      "country": "Canada",
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      "christian_share_source": "Statistics Canada",
      "source_year": "2021"
    },
    {
      "country": "the United Kingdom",
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      "christians_estimate": 31306854,
      "churches_mapped": 385,
      "christian_share_source": "UK national censuses",
      "source_year": "2021-2022"
    },
    {
      "country": "Germany",
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      "population": 83577140,
      "christians_estimate": 38696215,
      "churches_mapped": 358,
      "christian_share_source": "FOWID",
      "source_year": "2025"
    },
    {
      "country": "Australia",
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      "churches_mapped": 742,
      "christian_share_source": "Australian Bureau of Statistics census",
      "source_year": "2021"
    },
    {
      "country": "Nigeria",
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      "christians_estimate": 91747907,
      "churches_mapped": 302,
      "christian_share_source": "Pew Research Center",
      "source_year": "2020"
    },
    {
      "country": "France",
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      "population": 68605616,
      "christians_estimate": 26070134,
      "churches_mapped": 362,
      "christian_share_source": "INSEE",
      "source_year": "2020"
    },
    {
      "country": "South Korea",
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      "christians_estimate": 15954522,
      "churches_mapped": 387,
      "christian_share_source": "Korea Research survey",
      "source_year": "2025"
    },
    {
      "country": "Indonesia",
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      "population": 275439000,
      "christians_estimate": 28755831,
      "churches_mapped": 352,
      "christian_share_source": "Indonesian census",
      "source_year": "2010"
    },
    {
      "country": "Japan",
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      "population": 123802000,
      "christians_estimate": 1361822,
      "churches_mapped": 332,
      "christian_share_source": "Agency for Cultural Affairs",
      "source_year": "2025"
    }
  ]
}