Are there more Christians or Catholics in the world?

Answer 1

There are more Catholics than Protestants.

18% of the world is Catholic.

9% of the World is Protestant.

If you split them up- the number of Catholics VASTLY outnumbers the protestants.

Answer 2

Catholic Answer Trying to get statistics from the same year is challenging! The second link below lists comparative numbers for 2005 with more than a billion Catholics in the world and about 500 million protestants of all stripes. Please note that there are nearly 40,000 different protestant religions! The half billion is a total for all of them.

Answer 3

Well seeing as all Catholics are Christians, no. Christianity is the overall title for Protestants and Catholics. And all other denominations are within those(more specifically, Protestantism). Meaning all Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholic. So there are more Christians than there are Catholics.

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Catholic AnswerAll Catholics are Christians. Some who are outside the visible Church may be Christians if they are validly baptized and believe in the Nicene Creed in its traditional interpretation, so due to these invisible members of the Church, one could say that there were more Christians than Catholics.

Answer 4

Roman Catholic AnswerNo, according to the 2001 census, 12,793,125 reported themselves as Roman Catholic, which was 43.2 % of the population, and 8,654,845 reported themselves as protestant which was 29.2 percent of the population.

Answer 5

roughly 53% of the US population is protestant and about 24% are catholic

Answer 6

yes. 18% of the world are catholics. 9% are protestants.

so if they got together catholics would outnumber protestants.

Answer 7

In Denmark,they are more Protestants called Lutheran church than Catholics.Catholic in Denmark is minority.They account only 2% of the population of more than 5 million.

Answer 8

The Catholic denomination within Christianity represents the largest or majority group of adherents with roughly 2.1 billion people.

Answer 9

Your question makes no sense, all Catholics are Christians, they are the same thing.

Answer 10

All Catholics are Christians. Catholics belong to one of the Christian denominations. There are also many other Christian denominations, so there are more Christians than Catholics.