Asia-Pacific
(60 COUNTRIES AND
TERRITORIES)
The Asia-Pacific region includes 13% of the world’s Christians.13 The
region’s largest Christian population in absolute numbers is in the
Philippines, a country that is overwhelmingly Christian (93%). Christians make
up a minority of the population in China (5%), India (3%) and Indonesia (9%),
but because these countries have very large populations, their Christian
minorities are large in number. Collectively, the 10 countries with the largest
Christian populations in the region are home to 12% of all Christians
worldwide.
Slightly less than half of Christians in the Asia-Pacific region
(49%) are Protestant, as broadly defined in this report (see Defining Christian Traditions). Most of
the remaining Christians in the region are Catholic (46%), while 4% are
Orthodox. About 1% belong to other Christian traditions.
Footnotes:
13 To see all of
the countries and territories in Asia and the Pacific, see the Interactive Maps. (return to text)