Number of Orthodox Christians worldwide

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The most common estimates of the number of Orthodox Christians worldwide is approximately 225-300 million individuals [1].


Other estimates such as in The Encyclopedia of the Developing World [2] places the number of overall Orthodox worshippers in 1996 at 182 million individuals, including the following breakdown:


  • Russian Federation: 70-80 million
  • Ukraine: close to 30 million
  • Romania: 20 million
  • Greece: 9.5 million
  • United States: close to 7 million
  • Serbia and Montenegro: close to 7 million
  • Bulgaria: 6 million
  • Belarus: 5 million
  • Kazakhstan: 4 million
  • Moldavia: 3 million
  • Georgia: 2.8 million
  • FYROM: 1.2 million
  • Uzbekistan: 900,000
  • Poland: 800,000
  • Germany: 550,000
  • Australia: 480,000
  • United Kingdom: 440,000
  • Latvia: 400,000
  • Estonia: 300,000
  • France: 260,000
  • Lithuania: 150,000
  • Austria: about 70,000
  • Switzerland: about 70,000
  • Finland: 56,000

 

Source: orthodoxwiki.org

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  1. [1] Eastern Orthodox Church: Number of Adherents at Wikipedia.
  3. [2] Thomas M. Leonard. Encyclopedia of the Developing World: Vol 3, O-Z Index. Taylor & Francis, 2006.