European Believers Report 2007 – EBR’07 (revised)
(Data gathered in 2006)

By Ruth Robinson
Greater Europe Mission
August 25, 2007


A revision has been made to the April 10, 2007, EBR’07 published figures, uniquely for the English case. This does, of course, affect the overall estimated percentage of Believers for the continent due to the substantial population of England in relation to the total continental population. The estimated percentage of Believers in Europe has been revised down from 1.42% to 1.1%.


England: 2% (revised from 6%)

In the EBR’07 (April 10, 2007), the 2005 attendance figure for all churches in England (6% of the population) was employed. This has been revised to the more-accurate attendance of those who call themselves “Broad Evangelicals” in the 2005 English Church Census, a figure that is being used as an estimate of Believers for this revised report. Source: “Pulling Out of the Nosedive in the UK!” – a short article which capsulates the 2006 book – by the same name, by Peter Brierley, printed in Strategy, Trends and Statistics, A monthly report from the Lausanne Researchers’ Network, July 2007.


Article Excerpt:

“Evangelicals Are Declining:  The number of Evangelicals in England is fewer in 2005 than it was in 1998, dropping nine percent from 1,390,000 to 1,260,000 [2% of the population]. The decline was least among the charismatic (five percent) but greatest among those describing themselves as Broad Evangelicals (twenty percent). The overall smaller rate of decline among Evangelicals is, however, because of the growth of the non-white church community, not because of the growth of conservative or strongly Evangelical churches which are mostly white.”