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[BayBuck]

How much has Catholic church membership per capita grown over the past 60 years?

Assuming the accuracy of Bgrad's chart, there were about 400M Catholics out of a 1950 world population of ~2.5B, so ~.16 per capita then, compared with about ~1.2B Catholics now out of ~7B world pop, which works out to a very similar rate today.

This chart from Georgetown has the Catholic world population percentage at a stable 17-18% every 5 years from 1970-2010.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Assuming the accuracy of Bgrad's chart, there were about 400M Catholics out of a 1950 world population of ~2.5B, so ~.16 per capita then, compared with about ~1.2B Catholics now out of ~7B world pop, which works out to a very similar rate today.

This chart from Georgetown has the Catholic world population percentage at a stable 17-18% every 5 years from 1970-2010.

Interesting - thanks for finding that.

 

[MaliBuckeye]

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[BayBuck]

Interesting - thanks for finding that.

I thought so too. What's more, the percentage of American adults identifying as Roman Catholic has remained fairly stable, from 22% in 1948, climbing into the upper-20s in the '70s/'80s, to 23% in 2012 (according to Gallup). It's the Protestants who have seen their market share dwindle from two-thirds to under-half in the US over that time.

 

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