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Christian population growth is the population growth of the global Christian community. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.19 billion Christians around the world in 2010, more than three times as many as the 600 million recorded in 1910. However, this rate of growth is slower than the overall population growth over the same time period. According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study, by 2050, the Christian population is expected to be 3.0 billion. The average Christian fertility rate is 2.7 children per woman, which is higher than the global average fertility rate of 2.5. Globally, Christians were only slightly older (median age of 30) than the global average median age of 28 in 2010. According to Pew Research religious switching is projected to have a modest impact on changes in the Christian population. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, approximately 2.7 million converting to Christianity annually from another religion, World Christian Encyclopedia also cited that Christianity rank at first place in net gains through religious conversion. While according to "The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion", approximately 15.5 million converting to Christianity annually from another religion, while approximately 11.7 million leave Christianity annually, and most of them become irreligious, resulting in a net gain of 3.8 million. Christianity earns about 65.1 million people annually due to factors such as birth rate, religious conversion and migration, while losing 27.4 million people annually due to factors such as death rate, religious apostasy and immigration. Most of the net growth in the numbers of Christians is in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
The correct answer is C) initial slow growth followed by an explosion of growth.
The trend in the percentage of Christians in the world’s population in the first 350 years of Christianity was "initial slow growth followed by an explosion of growth."
The teachings of Jesus were still imparted everywhere in the Middle East and parts of Europe by his Apostles. That is how these teachings kept on spreading after Jesus' death. It was not until Roman Emperor Constantine had this dream in which Archangel Gabriel told him that if he converted to Christianity, he would conquer many territories, that he ordered the conversion of the Roman Empire and that is when Christianity grew considerably.
