Countries with the Most Christians

Nice one!

100% :)

Fair point, I'm more surprised at the absence of India on the same grounds.

I was also very surprised to not see India. I went to the Wiki page on the subject and saw that they come in at #21.

Well, a lot of the population is hindu, another part is muslim.

Even a tiny fraction of 1.4 billion people is a lot.

I was a little surprised too. The North Eastern states of India have a large Christian population, majority in Manipur and Nagaland. I guess it just goes to show how big the other parts of the country are!

Me too - Wikipedia reckons 2.3% which works at around 30 million, so just shy

I wouldn't have guessed China if I hadn't seen those numbers - that could only have been China or India. I would guess the reason India isn't on here is because it's almost entirely Hindu with a fair number of Muslim regions as well (I don't know if Buddhism, Sikhism, or Jainism are still common in India but they used to be).

You're misusing the word "enormity". Chinese people aren't that bad.

Never knew that about "enormity". I think we can let Freestatebear off this time since the debate is up in the air a bit but your nitpicking has enlightened me. (For anyone else wanting to be enlightened, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enormity#usage-1).

It's not a misuse of the word. Enormity can simply mean "the great or extreme scale", which the population of China certainly is. It doesn't necessarily mean anything wicked.

From Wiktionary:
Enormity as a synonym for enormousness is sometimes considered an error, though other usage guides hold that there is little basis for the distinction. Both words ultimately go back to the same Latin source word ēnōrmis meaning “deviating from the norm, abnormal”.

So the meaning of "enormity" is closer to original than "enormous".

I think this is one of those curios of language. The dictionary definition of "enormity" means "the extreme scale of something bad." The word definitely, when used correctly, has a very negative connotation. But because it sounds like it should be the nominalization of "enormous," people use it that way, and when a critical mass of people use the same word in the same wrong way, then it becomes an accepted use. This has also happened with "hopefully" (which modifies a verb -- "Hopefully it will snow" technically describes snow falling in hopeful manner) and "momentarily" (which also modifies a verb -- "I'll be with you momentarily" technically means "I'll be with you *for* a moment," not *in* a moment. "Nonplussed" is the next domino to fall. It means "surprised and confused about how to react," but many people think it means "unimpressed," so...it also kind of means that now. Everyone is wrong until so many of them are wrong that they become right.

For anyone wanting to know more about The Great Enormity Debate, check out Dreyer's English (by the chief copyeditor of Random House). Generally speaking, nitpicking somebody based on a dictionary's overly specific (and often behind-the-times) definition is a pointless act. Enormity used to just mean greatness in a bad sense, perhaps, but it's long been used differently. And usage essentially determines definition.

Many estimates believe China to be at far higher rates, with some even going as high as 100 million. Also, many famous Chinese figures, like Yao Ming, Sun Yat-Sun, Emperors Hongwu and Kangxi, Jay Chou, and later-year Chiang Kai-Shek were/are known to be devout Christians. The Christian mentality and ethic fits very well with Chinese culture.

Worth noting the uk figures from 2011 census data and since 2001 actual number down 4m and % declaring no religion up from 15% to 25%

Great quiz. I missed Uganda and Kenya, though.

Try a similar version of this quiz here: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/178909/five-most-christian-countries-by-continent

I can't believe I forgot Ethiopia! That should have been easy...

I kind of think we should add in Vatican city just because their whole population is christian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country

you are mixing catholic countrys with Christian countrys

Catholics are Christians, just a denomination of Christianity.

India, indonesia, peru, canada and venezuela miss out being in the 20 millions. Ukraine has unstable data from what I can see. Bummed cause i guseed all of them ://

btw the numbers here do not match up with the quiz "5 countries with most christians by continent." For one example, Poland is included on that quiz while the UK is not, but here the UK is shown as having more Christians than Poland. There are others.

Then why is "Christian" in the name of the dominant political party?

Was really expecting to see South Korea here as they've gone apes4!7 crazy on Christianity and you can even see the phenomenon in most of their recent films (Kollywood for Korea or Sollywood?) Also, India and Indonesia were missing. All of these around 30 million or so.

You see Christian influence in a lot of Japanese shows and movies but it's not because there are a lot of Christians in Japan. They view it more as some kind of crazy weird exotic cult, maybe the same way Americans see Shinto or Japanese animism, or maybe the way Egyptian mythology is presented in films like The Mummy or Norse mythology as in Marvel's The Avengers.

South Korea is a bit of a different story. There actually are a lot of believing Christians in South Korea. About 30% of the total population is Christian, making them the 5th most Christian country in Asia as a percentage (after East Timor, Cyprus, Georgia, and the Philippines), and 6th in Asia in terms of total number (after Russia, the Philippines, Indonesia, China, and India), but 34th worldwide.

It's probably in the top one.

The pope's an atheist.

A Christian atheist, then.

Hey, if we're going to count people who think they're Christian for every other country, why enforce stricter rules on the Vatican?

Poland has 96% or something like that. It should be on here.

It's probably just behind Ukraine according to data used for this quiz.

Very surprised by France, given that it's known for not being religious. I'm sure I've read somewhere that the number of actually practising Christians is extremely low, people just report themselves as Catholic/Christian presumably by default.

That is true for most predominantly Christian countries in the West.

Missed Ukraine!

I like how China has 14th highest christian population in the world with just 3% of its population

How the hell did I miss the u.k.

i see what you did there (how the h***) good one

I also remembered Italy at the very last with 34 seconds left