ANY DAY NOW
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[AUG 12 2026]—Total solar eclipse — Greenland / Iceland / Spain—OBSERVED[AUG 28 2026]—Partial lunar eclipse — Americas / Europe—OBSERVED[FEB 17 2026]—Annular solar eclipse — Antarctic—OBSERVED[AUG 02 2027]—Total solar eclipse — longest of the century, Egypt / Saudi Arabia—OBSERVED[MAR 11 2011]—M9.1 Tōhoku earthquake — 15,900 dead—OBSERVED[DEC 26 2004]—M9.1 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake and tsunami—OBSERVED[FEB 06 2023]—M7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence—OBSERVED[APR 15 2014]—First eclipse of the 2014–15 tetrad—SPECULATION[SEP 28 2015]—Fourth eclipse of the tetrad — nothing recorded—SPECULATION[OCT 21 2011]—Camping's final date — no event recorded—EXPIRED[AUG 12 2026]—Total solar eclipse — Greenland / Iceland / Spain—OBSERVED[AUG 28 2026]—Partial lunar eclipse — Americas / Europe—OBSERVED[FEB 17 2026]—Annular solar eclipse — Antarctic—OBSERVED[AUG 02 2027]—Total solar eclipse — longest of the century, Egypt / Saudi Arabia—OBSERVED[MAR 11 2011]—M9.1 Tōhoku earthquake — 15,900 dead—OBSERVED[DEC 26 2004]—M9.1 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake and tsunami—OBSERVED[FEB 06 2023]—M7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence—OBSERVED[APR 15 2014]—First eclipse of the 2014–15 tetrad—SPECULATION[SEP 28 2015]—Fourth eclipse of the tetrad — nothing recorded—SPECULATION[OCT 21 2011]—Camping's final date — no event recorded—EXPIRED
The year
2025
CE — 2025 CE

CHRISTIANITY'S CENTRE OF GRAVITY IS IN AFRICA — SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA HELD 30.7% OF CHRISTIANS IN 2020 AS EUROPE FELL FROM 25.8% TO 16%. ISLAM GROWS FASTEST BY FERTILITY, NOT CONVERSION: +347M IN A DECADE. THE UNAFFILIATED ARE THE THIRD LARGEST BLOC ON EARTH.

CENSUS
Sources
ADHERENCE — SOURCED COUNTS AT 2025 CE
CENSUS
  • CHRISTIANITY2.63B

    PROJECTION — CSGC projection

  • ISLAM2.0B — 25.6% of the world

    CENSUS — Pew Research Center

    Muslim growth 2010–2020 is Pew's 347 million, not the widely-repeated 327 million.

  • JUDAISM14.8M core / ~16.5M enlarged

    CENSUS — Pew Research Center; DellaPergola, 'World Jewish Population'

    CENSUS — Jewish People Policy Institute

    Two definitions, not two counts of the same thing. DellaPergola's 'core' counts those who self-identify as Jewish and nothing else; the JPPI 'enlarged' figure includes non-Jewish household members and those of Jewish parentage. Both are rendered.

  • HINDUISM1.2B — 14.9% of the world

    CENSUS — Pew Research Center

  • BUDDHISM324M — 4.1% of the world

    CENSUS — Pew Research Center

    The only major group smaller in 2020 than in 2010 (−19M). This reflects a Pew China methodology change, not only disaffiliation. Do not interpolate smoothly across this break.

  • SIKHISM~25M globally, roughly 85% of them in India

    CENSUS — National censuses, aggregated

  • UNAFFILIATED1.9B — 24.2% of the world (+17% in a decade)

    CENSUS — Pew Research Center

The plate renders coarse influence fields, not borders and not census returns. Where two or more traditions clear the presence threshold on one land dot, all of them render — nothing is overwritten by the strongest. Where two credible sources disagree, both figures stand.

INFLUENCE FIELDS, NOT BORDERS. WHERE TRADITIONS OVERLAP, ALL OF THEM RENDER — THE COLLISION IS THE FINDING.