Evangelical church statistics show a large and varied movement rather than a single organization. In the United States, evangelical Protestants represented 23% of adults in the 2023–24 Pew Religious Landscape Study. Denominational reports add another layer: they measure churches, members, worship attendance, baptisms, ministers, and international networks in different ways.
In this article
- The U.S. evangelical Protestant population
- Southern Baptist Convention scale
- Assemblies of God churches and changes
- Church of the Nazarene statistics
- Global evangelical networks
- Church of God worldwide figures
The U.S. evangelical Protestant population
The Pew Research Center’s 2023–24 Religious Landscape Study found that evangelical Protestants accounted for 23% of all U.S. adults. That is a population estimate for the study period, not a count of congregations or a denomination’s membership roll. Pew also reported that evangelical Protestantism remained the largest Protestant tradition in the U.S. adult population.
The same Pew series provides a time comparison. Evangelical Protestants represented 26% of U.S. adults in 2007 and 25% in 2014, compared with 23% in 2023–24.
| Pew measurement period | Evangelical Protestant share of U.S. adults |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 26% |
| 2014 | 25% |
| 2023–24 | 23% |
These figures describe religious identity among adults. They should not be treated as weekly attendance, church membership, or the number of evangelical congregations. Those measures appear in denominational reports and use their own definitions.
Southern Baptist Convention scale
The Southern Baptist Convention’s SBC Fast Facts report 46,876 cooperating churches, with total membership of 12,722,266 in its network of churches. The same report lists 4,304,625 people attending weekly in-person worship and 2,567,048 attending weekly in-person small-group Bible study.
The network also reported 250,643 baptisms. For an earlier comparison, the 2023 SBC Annual discussion of Cooperative Program recovery cited 154,701 baptisms reported in 2021. The two figures refer to different reporting years: 2024 annual baptisms in the Fast Facts material and 2021 baptisms in the 2023 annual discussion.
The SBC’s reported organizational structure includes 41 cooperating state conventions and 1,067 cooperating local associations. Churches in the network gave $9,558,032,631 in Cooperative Program dollars during fiscal 2023–2024, according to SBC Fast Facts.
| SBC network measure | Reported figure | Period or context |
|---|---|---|
| Cooperating churches | 46,876 | SBC Fast Facts |
| Total membership | 12,722,266 | SBC Fast Facts |
| Weekly in-person worship attenders | 4,304,625 | SBC Fast Facts |
| Weekly in-person small-group Bible study attenders | 2,567,048 | SBC Fast Facts |
| Annual baptisms | 250,643 | 2024 |
| Cooperative Program giving | $9,558,032,631 | Fiscal 2023–2024 |
The reported membership and church totals correspond to about 271 members per cooperating church when the two SBC figures are compared. That is a simple comparison of reported network totals, not an average attendance figure and not a measure of how membership is distributed among congregations.
Assemblies of God churches and changes
The Assemblies of God USA reported 12,698 churches in 2024. Its breakdown included 7,299 General Council affiliated churches, 3,756 District/Network affiliated churches, and 1,643 Parent affiliated churches. The same report listed 2,623 language district/network churches and 2,255 Spanish district churches within the national total.
The AG USA Church Changes report gives a snapshot of movement during 2024. It recorded 330 total new charters and 313 total church closures, for a net change of 17 churches. It also recorded 142 GC/DC new charters, 188 PAC new charters, seven transfers in, and seven transfers out.
The national total was 17 higher than the 2023 figure of 12,681. Regional figures show that change was uneven. The Southwest region increased from 1,394 churches to 1,432, a gain of 38. The South Central region declined from 1,657 to 1,643, a decrease of 14, while the Gulf region declined from 1,282 to 1,251, a decrease of 31. The Language-West Spanish district group increased from 1,183 to 1,208, a gain of 25.
Selected 2024 Assemblies of God USA church totals included 322 in Alabama, 74 in Alaska, 233 in Arizona, 372 in Arkansas, 207 in Florida Multicultural, 177 in Hawaii, 273 in Illinois, 231 in Indiana, 456 in Oklahoma, and 175 in Oregon. Other reported totals included 59 in Northwest Hispanic, 570 in North Texas, 410 in Northern California–Nevada, 755 in the Northwest region, 1,643 in the South Central region, 1,361 in the Southeast region, and 1,432 in the Southwest region.
The Assemblies of God also reports a global fellowship of over 85 million adherents and 444,000 churches worldwide. Those global figures and the AG USA figures describe different geographic scopes and should not be combined into one total.
Church of the Nazarene statistics
The Church of the Nazarene reported 30,585 churches in 2024, including 23,579 officially organized churches. Its ministerial totals were 19,990 ordained elders, 895 ordained deacons, and 10,803 licensed ministers.
The denomination’s 2024 statistics reported current membership of 2,783,731. During that year, it recorded 231,084 total conversions, welcomed 155,183 new Nazarenes, and recorded 128,736 new professions of faith. These are separate reported measures and should not be added together as if they represented one unduplicated group of people.
Average weekly worship attendance was reported in two formats: 1,295,634 for in-person worship and 320,837 for online worship. The denomination reported membership growth of 2.2% year over year and 21.19% over the last decade.
Regional and country-level figures in the same 2024 statistics included membership growth of 10.27% in South America and 6.09% in Asia-Pacific. The Africa Region reported 57,143 new Nazarenes in 2024. These percentages and counts refer to the periods and regions named in the Nazarene report, not to the U.S. evangelical population measured by Pew.
Global evangelical networks
The World Evangelical Alliance represents 600 million Christians, according to the World Council of Churches’ material on the WEA. The WEA has member alliances in 163 countries and was founded in 1846. Its stated role includes providing a platform for evangelical unity, mission, and advocacy, including a presence at the United Nations.
An Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability profile describes the World Evangelical Alliance as serving a network of over 600 million evangelicals through nine regional alliances, 143 national evangelical church member alliances, and more than 112 international member organizations. The two descriptions use closely related but not identical wording: one refers to Christians represented by the WEA, while the other describes the evangelical network served through its alliance structure.
These global totals are network estimates or organizational descriptions rather than a worldwide census of weekly church attendance. They are useful for understanding institutional reach, while denominational reports such as SBC, AG, and Nazarene statistics provide more specific counts for particular church systems.
Church of God worldwide figures
The Church of God says its movement reaches 189 countries and includes more than 8 million members and 15 million constituents. It also says the movement includes more than 36,000 congregations worldwide.
Its brief history material gives another description: more than 7 million members in 178 nations and territories and around 36,000 congregations. A Church of God resolution cites 6,748,354 members and 34,848 churches.
These Church of God figures should remain tied to their individual source descriptions and reporting contexts. They are not interchangeable totals. The differences in countries, territories, members, constituents, and churches illustrate why a headline number needs its measurement definition and source period alongside it.
Taken together, the available statistics describe several dimensions of evangelical church life: 23% of U.S. adults identified as evangelical Protestants in the 2023–24 Pew study; major denominational networks report thousands of churches and millions of members; attendance and baptism counts provide activity measures; and global alliances describe reach across countries and organizations. Each figure is most useful when its geography, date, and definition are kept visible.