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As per the Pew Research survey, the number of Christian-majority nations has decreased by four from 2010-2020, even as the number of countries with a majority Christian population still remains the highest.

Christian population: A major demographic shift is underway across the world due to a multitude of factors such as wars, illegal immigration, religious conversion and refugee crisis due to various conflicts. According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, the number of Christian-majority countries has declined in the last 10 years, and Christians are no longer the majority population in major western nations including, Britain, France, and Australia.

How many Christian-majority countries are there?

As per the Pew Research survey, the number of Christian-majority nations has decreased by four from 2010-2020, even as the number of countries with a Christian majority population still remains the highest. The survey reveals that Christians are a majority in 120 of the 201, or about 60% of the total countries and territories on the planet, in 2020.

The number was 124 in 2010, the report said.

Why Christianity is declining?

The primary reason for the decline in Christian-majority nations is number of people leaving the Christian faith in recent years, according to the survey, adding that a large portion of those who leave Christianity do not profess any other faith, or identify as atheists.

The survey notes that the most most significant change has been witnessed in countries like Britain, Australia, France and Uruguay, where the Christians are no longer a majority as their numbers dropped below 50% in the past decade, while the numbers of atheists or those who do not identify with any religion surged.

Notably, Uruguay is the only non-Christian majority country in the Americas as 52 percent of its population does not identify with any religion, while the Christian population has declined to 44 percent. The number of countries where majority of population do not identify with any religion has surged to 10 in 2020, while the number was seven in 2010.

France, Britain and Australia do not have any majority religious group, however, the number of people who identify as non-religious is close to or greater than the number of Christians, the report revealed.

What about Muslim countries?

As per the Pew Research Center survey, there has been no change in the status of the 53 Muslim majority countries as their number remains the same it was a decade ago.

There are only two Hindu countries in the world, India and Nepal, with the former being home to about 95 percent of the global Hindu population, which accounts for about 15 percent of global population. Hindus form the largest religious group in Mauritius, but are not the majority in that country.

There are a total of seven Buddhist-dominated countries, while Israel remains the sole Jewish nation in the world, the report revealed.