NationMaster.com is a website of World Statistics that has gathered data from sources like CIA World Factbook, UN and OECD. Today, Ocotber 21, 2009, there are 9,854 Stats, 4,118 Maps and 6,345 Profiles all containing information from the Agriculture of a country to the outflow of refugees.
At the top of the home page, there is a fun factoid. Factoid 2 states "At least 9 out 10 Nigerians attend church regularly. Only 4 out of 10 Americans claim to do so." What I find interesting about this is that from what I gather, the United States claims to be a predominately Christian country. In fact, nationmaster.com states that in the United States in 2002 Protestants make up 52% and Roman Catholics make up 24% of the population. Thats a total of 76% of people. In Nigeria, only 40% of people are registered as Christian. These numbers do not match up to me. Is there something wrong with the church in the United States? Do people just not care? Is there something that Christians in Nigeria do that those in the United States are not doing?
I think it is important to see how many "active" Christians are in these statistics as opposed to people who were raised a certain way so there "default religion" would be Christianity.
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