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I would be interested to know what the numbers in South Korea are? My wife if 5th Generation Christian and Korea sends missionaries to the USA now..

China will most likely be the "last Christian nation" before Christ returns. This book, written by a former Time magazine Beijing bureau chief, explains why.

I cannot recommend it highly enough. Check out the evocative subtitle.

From http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/Releases/1997/Dec97/r121097a.html

I blew Brazil but Italy is more Christian than us

World Church Weekly Attendence

Nigeria             89
Ireland             84*
Philippines         68
N. Ireland          58*
Puerto Rico         52
South Africa        56
Poland              55
Portugal            47
Slovakia            47
Mexico              46
Italy               45
Dominican Republic  44
Belgium             44
U.S.A.              44
Turkey              43
Peru                43
India               42
Canada              38
Brazil              36
Netherlands         35*

Venezuela        31
Uruguay          31
Austria          30*
Chile            25
Argentina        25
Britain          27*
Spain            25
Solvenia         22
Croatia          22
Hungary          21*
France           21*
Romania          20*
South Korea      14
Switzerland      16
Australia        16
Lithuania        16
W. Germany       14
Czech Republic   14*
Bulgaria         10*
Ukraine          10

Taiwan        11
Moldova       10
Georgia       10
China          9
Armenia        8
Azerbaijan     6
Serbia         7
Montenegro     7
Belarus        6
Latvia         5
Denmark        5*
Norway         5
East Germany   5
Sweden         4
Iceland        4*
Finland        4
Estonia        4
Japan          3
Russia         2

Source: Based on latest available data from the 1990-1991 or the 1995-1997 World Values surveys. Results with an asterisk are from the 1990-1991 survey; all others are from the 1995-1997 survey.

Though I find that USA number to be way to high, I think people are lying on the phone or the numbers have collasped since 1995 because from the current US survey at

http://www.barna.org/cgi-bin/PagePressRelease.asp?PressReleaseID=149&Reference=B

Only 3 out of 10 twentysomethings (31%) attend church in a typical week, compared to 4 out of 10 of those in their 30s (42%) and nearly half of all adults age 40 and older (49%).