{"id":79908,"date":"2019-04-03T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79908"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:33:53","slug":"prc-facttank-the-countries-with-the-10-largest-christian-populations-and-the-10-largest-muslim-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79908","title":{"rendered":"(PRC FactTank) The countries with the 10 largest Christian populations and the 10 largest Muslim populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTop 10\u201d lists can often be helpful in displaying and illuminating data. For example, the two tables of countries with the largest Christian and Muslim populations featured here reveal differences in the concentration, diversity and projected changes in the world\u2019s two largest religions.<\/p>\n<p>The two lists show that the global Muslim population is more heavily concentrated in Islam\u2019s main population centers than the global Christian population is for Christianity, which is more widely dispersed around the world. Indeed, about two-thirds (65%) of the world\u2019s Muslims live in the countries with the 10 largest Muslim populations, while only 48% of the world\u2019s Christians live in the countries with the 10 largest Christian populations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/04\/01\/the-countries-with-the-10-largest-christian-populations-and-the-10-largest-muslim-populations\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lists of the countries with the 10 largest Christian and Muslim populations illustrate the extent to which the population centers for these religions have moved away from their historical and traditional hubs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6dAw47TTA5\">https:\/\/t.co\/6dAw47TTA5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q6mCYQqtQh\">pic.twitter.com\/Q6mCYQqtQh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pewresearch\/status\/1113087949753761795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTop 10\u201d lists can often be helpful in displaying and illuminating data. For example, the two tables of countries with the largest Christian and Muslim populations featured here reveal differences in the concentration, diversity and projected changes in the world\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79908\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,133,426,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization","category-history","category-islam","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79911,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79908\/revisions\/79911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}