Pew Research Center's November 8, 2017 study of global Orthodox Christianity, finding the worldwide Orthodox population had roughly doubled over the preceding century, from an estimated 124 million in 1910 (7 percent of world population, 20 percent of world Christians) to nearly 260 million by 2010 (4 percent of world population, 12 percent of world Christians), growing more slowly than Christianity as a whole even as Russia's Orthodox population surged past 100 million after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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A dedicated Pew demographic study of Orthodox Christianity, built on the same global religion modeling as Pew's 2011 Global Christianity report and dated to the same 2010 reference year (nearly 260 million Orthodox, consistent with that report's 2.18 billion total Christian figure at a 12 percent Orthodox share), plus the report's own historical comparison to an estimated 1910 baseline, read in full directly from pewresearch.org. Citation
PublisherPew Research Center
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianity-in-the-21st-century/
Source TypeDemographic study
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