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Dec 26: Global Facts and Figures

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Evangelical Growth

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Countries with the Fastest Growing Evangelical Population
Rank	Country	Ann Gr
1	Iran	19.6%
2	Afghanistan	16.7%
3	Gambia, The	8.9%
4	Cambodia	8.8%
5	Greenland	8.4%
6	Algeria	8.1%
7	Somalia	8.1%
8	Mongolia	7.9%
9	Kuwait	7.3%
10	Tajikistan	6.9%
11	Laos	6.8%
12	Mauritania	6.7%
13	São Tomé & Príncipe	6.5%
14	Sudan	6.4%
15	Suriname	6.3%
16	Guinea-Bissaus	6.2%
17	Senegal	6.1%
18	Korea, North	6.0%
19	Columbia	6.0%
20	Andorra	5.9%
21	Oman	5.9%
22	Israel	5.6%
23	San Marino	5.6%
24	Nicaragua	5.5%
25	United Arab Emirates	5.5%
26	Mozambique	5.4%
27	Nepal	5.3%
28	Equatorial Guinea	5.3%
29	Montenegro	5.2%
30	Libya	5.2%
31	Yemen	5.1%
32	Ecuador	4.9%
33	Belize	4.8%
34	Tunisia	4.7%
35	Togo	4.7%
36	Egypt	4.6%
37	Liberia	4.6%
38	Albania	4.6%
39	Luxembourg	4.6%
40	Bolivia	4.6%

Countries with the Slowest Growing (or Fastest Declining) Evangelical Population
Rank	Country	Ann Gr
1	Niue	-4.1%
2	Sweden	-0.6%
3	Georgia	-0.6%
4	Japan	-0.4%
5	Slovenia	-0.2%
6	Tokelau Islands	-0.1%
7	Falkland Islands	-0.1%
8	Finland	-0.1%
9	United Kingdom	-0.0%
10	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0.0%
11	Saint Pierre & Miquelon	0.0%
12	Palestine	0.0%
13	Denmark	0.2%
14	Swaziland	0.2%
15	Czech Republic	0.3%
16	US Virgin Islands	0.3%
17	Tonga	0.4%
18	Saint Helena	0.5%
19	Estonia	0.5%
20	New Zealand	0.5%
21	Croatia	0.2%
22	Netherlands	0.6%
23	Bermuda	0.6%
24	Guam	0.6%
25	Bulgaria	0.7%
26	Korea, South	0.7%
27	Grenada	0.7%
28	Samoa	0.7%
29	Barbados	0.8%
30	USA	0.8%
31	Canada	0.8%
32	Hungary	0.8%
33	Micronesia	0.9%
34	Germany	0.9%
35	Guyana	1.0%
36	Norway	1.0%
37	Australia	1.1%
38	Portugal	1.1%
39	Switzerland	1.2%
40	Botswana	1.2%

• * For many of these countries, evangelical growth rates appear high because the evangelical population base is so small to begin with, borne out by the fact that many countries with the highest evangelical growth rates are also found on p914 of the book in the list Countries with the Lowest % of Evangelicals (% Total Pop).

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