The bulk of the Encyclopedia is the presentation of Christianity in each country of the world beginning with Afghanistan and ending with Zimbabwe. This list of countries largely follows the United Nations Demographic Database, the most-widely used country list. See Technical notes in the appendices for more information on methodology and indicators. Each country article contains a comparable set of data, text, maps, photos, graphs and bibliographies, arranged in the following order:

Country name. The name of the country that appears at the start of the essay is usual…