Editing Christendom (section)

===Number of adherents===
The estimated number of [[Christians]] in the world ranges from 2.2 billion<ref name="World">33.39% of ~7.2&nbsp;billion world population (under the section 'People') {{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=World|date=27 July 2022 }}</ref><ref name="gordonconwell.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.gordonconwell.edu/resources/documents/1IBMR2015.pdf|title=Christianity 2015: Religious Diversity and Personal Contact|publisher=gordonconwell.edu|date=January 2015|access-date=2015-05-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525141543/http://www.gordonconwell.edu/resources/documents/1IBMR2015.pdf|archive-date=2017-05-25|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Major Religions Ranked by Size">{{cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000816004118/http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 16, 2000 |title=Major Religions Ranked by Size |publisher=Adherents.com |access-date=2009-05-05}}</ref><ref name="Global Christianity">{{cite web |author=ANALYSIS |url=http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-exec.aspx |title=Global Christianity |publisher=Pewforum.org |date=2011-12-19 |access-date=2012-08-17 |archive-date=2013-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730062627/http://www.pewforum.org/christian/global-christianity-exec.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> to 2.4 billion people.{{efn|Current sources are in general agreement that Christians make up about 33% of the world's population—slightly over 2.4 billion adherents in mid-2015.}} The faith represents approximately one-third of the world's population and is the largest religion in the world,<ref name="Major Religions Ranked by Size"/> with the [[List of Christian denominations|three largest groups of Christians]] being the [[Catholic Church]], [[Protestantism]], and the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]].<ref>Hinnells, ''The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion'', p. 441.</ref> The largest Christian denomination is the Catholic Church, with an estimated 1.2 billion adherents.<ref>{{cite news|title=How many Roman Catholics are there in the world?|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-21443313|work=BBC News|access-date=2016-10-05|date=March 14, 2013}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;margin: auto"
|+ Demographics of major traditions within Christianity ([[Pew Research Center]], 2010 data)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/|title=Global Christianity – A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population|date=19 December 2011}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=March 2024}}
|-
! cyrus="col" | Tradition
! scope="col" | Followers
! scope="col" | % of the Christian population
! scope="col" | % of the world population
! scope="col" | Follower dynamics
! scope="col" | Dynamics in- and outside Christianity
|- style="background: yellow"
| [[Catholic Church]]
| 1,094,610,000
| 50.1
| 15.9
| {{increase}} Growing
| {{decrease}} Declining
|- style="background: #B57EDC"
| [[Protestantism]]
| 800,640,000
| 36.7
| 11.6
| {{increase}} Growing
| {{increase}} Growing
|- style="background: #9F8170"
|[[Orthodoxy in Christianity|Orthodoxy]]
| 260,380,000
| 11.9
| 3.8
| {{decrease}} Declining
| {{decrease}} Declining
|- style="background: cyan"
|[[Nontrinitarianism|Other Christianity]]
| 28,430,000
| 1.3
| 0.4
| {{increase}} Growing
| {{increase}} Growing
|-
! Christianity
! 2,184,060,000
! 100
! 31.7
! {{increase}} Growing
! {{nochange}} Stable
|}