numbers of interest

A few interesting stats I read today from a missions journal i get...

• Total number of denominations worldwide - 37,000
• Percentage of the world’s 6.6 billion people who call themselves “Christian” – 31.4% - 2.2 billion
• Ratio of “white” to “non-white” Christians - 44% are white, 56% are non white
• Number of evangelical Christians in the world – 259 million
•   Number of languages worldwide with at least a portion of Scripture translated – 2,238
• Number of women in full-time Christian ministry serving around the world – 4.4 million
• Total number of Christian foreign missionaries currently deployed worldwide – 443,000 in 4,340 agencies
• The six countries that receive the greatest number of foreign missionaries – USA – 35, 100; Brazil – 26, 400; Russia – 20,100; France – 16, 900; Britain – 15,800; D.R. Congo – 15,800

• Number of Africans who are serving as foreign missionaries on other continents – Almost 19,000