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There are more than 900 million Protestants worldwide,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Encyclopedia of Protestantism )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CCC - Global Statistics )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The World's Religions )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Protestantism )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction )〕〔Jay Diamond, Larry. Plattner, Marc F. and Costopoulos, Philip J. ''World Religions and Democracy''. 2005, page 119. (link ) (saying "''Not only do Protestants presently constitute 13 percent of the world's population—about 800 million people—but since 1900 Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.')〕 among approximately 2.4 billion Christians.〔33.39% of 7.174 billion world population (under the section "People and Society") (【引用サイトリンク】title=World )〕〔 In 2010, a total of more than 800 million included 300 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 260 million in the Americas, 140 million in Asia-Pacific region, 100 million in Europe and 2 million in Middle East-North Africa.〔 Protestants account for nearly forty percent of Christians worldwide and more than one tenth of the total human population.〔 Various estimates put the percentage of Protestants in relation to the total number of world's Christians at 33%,〔 36%,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Protestant Demographics and Fragmentations )〕 36.7%,〔 and 40%,〔 while in relation to the world's population at 11.6%〔 and 13%.〔 In European countries which were most profoundly influenced by the Reformation, Protestantism still remains the most practiced religion.〔 These include the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=954 )〕 In other historical Protestant strongholds such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary, it remains one of the most popular religions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Pearson General Knowledge Manual 2012 )〕 Although Czech Republic was the site of one of the most significant pre-reformation movements,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Protestantism in Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) - Musée virtuel du Protestantisme )〕 there are only few Protestant adherents; mainly due to historical reasons like persecution of Protestants by the Catholic Habsburgs,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic )〕 restrictions during the Communist rule, and also the ongoing secularization.〔 Over the last several decades, religious practice has been declining as secularization has increased.〔 According to a 2012 study about Religiosity in the European Union in 2012 by Eurobarometer, Protestants made up 12% of the EU population. According to Pew Research Center, Protestants constituted nearly one fifth (or 17.8%) of the continent's Christian population in 2010.〔 Clarke and Beyer estimate that Protestants constituted 15% of all Europeans in 2009, while Noll claims that less than 12% of them lived in Europe in 2010.〔〔 Changes in worldwide Protestantism over the last century have been significant.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Teachings of Modern Protestantism on Law, Politics, and Human Nature )〕 Since 1900, Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Encyclopedia of Protestantism )〕〔〔 That caused Protestantism to be called a primarily non-Western religion.〔〔 Much of the growth has occurred after World War II, when decolonization of Africa and abolition of various restrictions against Protestants in Latin American countries occurred.〔 According to one source, Protestants constituted respectively 2.5%, 2%, 0.5% of Latin Americans, Africans and Asians.〔 In 2000, percentage of Protestants on mentioned continents was 17%, more than 27% and 5.5%, respectively.〔 According to Mark A. Noll, 79% of Anglicans lived in the United Kingdom in 1910, while most of the remainder was found in the United States and across the British Commonwealth.〔 By 2010, 59% of Anglicans were found in Africa.〔 China is home to world's largest Protestant minority.〔 Protestantism is growing in Africa,〔 Asia,〔〔 Latin America,〔 and Oceania,〔〔 while remaining stable or declining in Anglo America〔 and Europe,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Religion in a Secularizing Society )〕 with some exceptions such as France,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Religious Newcomers and the Nation State )〕 where it was eradicated after the abolition of the Edict of Nantes by the Edict of Fontainebleau and the following persecution of Huguenots, but now is claimed to be stable in number or even growing slightly.〔 According to some, Russia is another country to see a Protestant revival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Moscow Church Spearheads Russia Revival )〕〔(Protestantism in Postsoviet Russia: An Unacknowledged Triumph )〕 In 2010, the largest Protestant denominational families were historically Pentecostal denominations (10.8%), Anglican (10.6%), Lutheran (9.7%), Baptist (9%), United and uniting churches (unions of different denominations) (7.2%), Presbyterian or Reformed (7%), Methodist (3.4%), Adventist (2.7%), Congregationalist (0.5%), Brethren (0.5%), The Salvation Army (0.3%) and Moravian (0.1%). Other denominations accounted for 38.2% of Protestants.〔 United States is home to approximately 20% of Protestants.〔 According to a 2012 study, Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 48%, thus ending its status as religion of the majority for the first time.〔("Nones" on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation )〕 The decline is attributed mainly to the dropping membership of the Mainline Protestant churches,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline )〕 while Evangelical Protestant and Black churches are relatively stable or continue to grow.〔 According to ''Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United State'', a review of American Nobel prizes winners awarded between 1901 and 1972 by Harriet Zuckerman, 72% of American Nobel Prize Laureates came from Protestant backgrounds.〔Harriet Zuckerman, ''(Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States )'' New York, The Free Pres, 1977 , p.68: Protestants turn up among the American-reared laureates in slightly greater proportion to their numbers in the general population. Thus 72 percent of the seventy-one laureates but about two thirds of the American population were reared in one or another Protestant denomination-)〕 Overall, Protestants have won a total of 84.2% of all the American Nobel Prizes in Chemistry,〔 60% in Medicine,〔 58.6% in Physics,〔 between 1901 and 1972. By 2050, Protestantism is projected to rise to a proportion of around half of the world's total Christian population.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Future of the Global Church )〕 According to other experts such as Hans J. Hillerbrand, Protestants will be as numerous as Catholics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Encyclopedia of Protestantism )〕 == Methodology == For the purposes of this list, the following Christian branches are considered Protestant: * Adventists * Anabaptists * Anglicans * Baptists * Calvinists (Reformed Tradition) * Lutherans * Methodists * Pentecostals * Evangelicals * Other Protestants Amish, Hutterites, Mennonites, Hussites, Brethren, Free Evangelicals, Waldensians, Quakers, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, United and Holiness are all regarded as subgroups of the previously listed denominational families (branches) of Protestantism. Estimates of total Protestant population vary considerably. Most reliable sources claim a range of 800 million to more than 1 billion. Difficulties occur as there is no consensus among scholars which denominations should be considered Protestant, and which not. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Protestantism by country」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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