STATUS OF GLOBAL MISSION, AD 2001, IN CONTEXT OF …

1 Year:19001970mid-2000mid-20012025 WORLD population1,619,626,0003,696,148,0006,05 5,049,0006,128,512,0007,823,703, dwellers (urbanites)232,695,0001,353,370,0002,881 ,079,0002,916,034,0004,611,677, dwellers1,386,931,0002,342,778,0003,173, 970,0003,212,478,0003,212,026, population (over 15s)1,074,058,0002,310,543,0004,254,647, 0004,328,571,0005,987,079, ,258,0001,475,194,0003,261,345,0003,318, 010,0005,046,637, ,800,000835,349,000993,302,0001,010,561, 000940,442,000 WORLDWIDE EXPANSION OF (over 100,000 population)3002,4004,0504,1006, (over 1 million population) poor100 million650 million1,400 million1,440 million3,000 slumdwellers20 million260 million700 million720 million1,500 millionWORLD POPULATION BY (total all kinds) (=World C)558,132,0001,236,374,0001,999,564,0002 ,024,929,0002,616,670, ,941,000553,528,0001,188,243,0001,213,37 0,0001,784,876, ,024,000532,096,000768,159,000774,333,00 0875,121, ,003,000462,598,000811,336,000823,843,00 01,049,231, ,077,000233,424,000359,982,000363,740,00 0418,345, ,000165,400,000150,090,000150,447,000159 ,544, ,910,00077,762,000102,356,000103,313,000 114,720, ,558,000160,278,000228,367,000231,335,00 0277,247, ,962,00010,618,00023,258,00023,687,00031 ,378, ,292,00014,763,00014,434,00014,552,00016 ,053, (=Worlds A and B)1,061,494,0002,459,774,0004,055,485,00 04,103,583,0005,207,033,000 GLOBAL Christians as % of world (=World C)

2 Church members36,489,000106,268,000111,125,0001 11,850,000125,712, church members521,643,0001,130,106,0001,888,439 ,0001,913,079,0002,490,958, ,571,00059,195,000123,727,000126,421,000 190,490, Commission Christians77,931,000277,152,000647,821,0 00657,163,000887,579, attenders469,303,000885,777,0001,359,420 ,0001,373,554,0001,760,568, ,726,00093,449,000210,603,000214,219,000 327,835, ,931,000277,152,000647,821,000657,163,00 0887,579, ,00072,223,000523,767,000533,581,000811, 552, Christian martyrs per year 35,600230,000165,000167,000210,000 MEMBERSHIP BY 6 ECCLESIASTICAL ,571,00047,501,00079,650,00080,717,00011 3,746, ,931,00095,605,000385,745,000394,102,000 581,642, Christians928,00011,100,00026,060,00026, 526,00045,555, ,844,000139,662,000215,129,000216,247,00 0252,716, ,024,000210,759,000342,002,000346,650,00 0468,633, Catholics 266,548,000665,954,0001,057,328,0001,070 ,437,0001,361,965,000 MEMBERSHIP BY 6 ,756,000117,069,000335,116,000343,886,00 0600,526, (new UN definition)20,759,00097,329,000307,288,0 00313,795,000459,029, (new UN definition)368,210,000468,480,000536,832 ,000537,244,000532,861, America60,027,000263,597,000475,659,0004 83,121,000635,271, America59,570,000168,932,000212,167,0002 13,893,000235,112, ,322,00014,699,00021,375,00021,635,00028 ,152,000 CHRISTIAN agencies1,50014,10023,00023,50040, sending agencies6002,2004,0004,1006, GLOBAL monoliths35628085300 CHRISTIAN (all denominations)1,050,0002,350,0005,104,00 05,154,0006,500, (foreign missionaries)62,000240,000420,000425,000 550,000 CHRISTIAN FINANCE (in $, per year)

3 Income of church members, $270 billion4,100 billion15,198 billion15,500 billion26,000 income of Pentecostals/Charismatics, $250,000,000157 billion3,508 billion3,650 billion9,500 to Christian causes, $8 billion70 billion270 billion280 billion870 income, $7 billion50 billion108 billion110 billion300 and institutional income, $1 billion20 billion162 billion170 billion570 crime, $300,0005,000,00016 billion17 billion65 of GLOBAL foreign missions, $200,000, billion15 billion16 billion60 in Christian use (numbers)01,000400,000,000424,000, billionCHRISTIAN commercial book titles per year2,20017,10025,00026,10070, periodicals3,50023,00035,00036,500100, books/articles on evangelization ,10016,00017,10080,000 SCRIPTURE DISTRIBUTION (all sources) per year ( )5,452,60025,000,00053,700,00056,400,000 180,000, Testaments per year ( )7,300,00045,000,000120,700,000124,300,0 00250,000, including gospels, selections, million281 million4,600 million4,700 million8,000 millionCHRISTIAN radio/TV stations01,2304,0004,0505, monthly listeners/viewers0750,000,0002,150,000,0 002,200,000,0003,800,000, Christian stations0150,000,000600,000,000619,000,0 001,300,000, secular stations0650,000,0001,810,000,0001,842,0 00,0002,800,000,000 CHRISTIAN URBAN non-Christian urban dwellers per day5,20051,100129,000131,300200, Christians159,600,000660,800,0001,160,00 0,0001,178,000,0001,720,000,000 CHRISTIAN per year5 billion25 billion165 billion172 billion425 per year10 billion99 billion938 billion1,000 billion4,250 per capita per year627155163529 WORLD population (=World A)

4 879,672,0001,641,245,0001,629,375,0001,6 37,509,7101,845,406, as % of evangelization plans since AD 302505101,5001,5403,000 STATUS OF GLOBAL mission , AD 2001, IN CONTEXT OF20TH AND21ST CENTURIESD avid B. Barrett, a contributing editor, is Hon. Research Advisor, United Bible Societies, and Research Professor of Missiometrics at Regent University, VirginiaBeach. Todd M. Johnson, a YWAM missionary, is director of the World Evangelization Research Center in Richmond, Virginia, and an adjunct professor at TrinityEvangelical Divinity School for the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course. http://