Americas

(51 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES) 

Christians living in the Americas make up 37% of Christians worldwide.⁸ The three countries in the Americas with the largest Christian populations also have the three largest Christian populations in the world: the United States (247 million Christians), Brazil (176 million) and Mexico (108 million). The 10 countries in the Americas with the largest number of Christians collectively are home to a third (33%) of all the world’s Christians.

Nearly two-thirds of Christians in the Americas (65%) are Catholic. Protestants make up a third of all Christians (33%) in the region. About 2% of the region’s Christians fall into the other Christian category, and less than 1% are Orthodox Christians.

Footnotes: 

8 To view all the countries and territories in the Americas, see the Interactive Maps. (return to text)