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    Table: Christian Population in Numbers by Country

    View as: Numbers | Percent of All Christians | Percent of Total Population Country Estimated 2010 Christian Population Estimated 2010 Catholic Population Estimated 2010 Protestant Population Estimated 2010 Orthodox Population Estimated 2010 Other Christian Population Estimated 2010 Total Population Afghanistan 30,000 < 10,000 30,000 < 1,000 < 1,000 31,410,000 Albania 580,000 330,000 < 10,000 240,000 […]

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    Main findings

    Two-thirds of online adults have a profile on a social networking site, and most restrict access to friends only. Two in three online adults (63%) say they currently maintain a profile on a social networking site, up from just 20% who said they had ever created a profile in 2006.[3.numoffset=”3″ The May 2011 Survey asks: […]

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    A Snapshot of Active Duty Women

    The numbers of women on active duty in the military have risen dramatically since the beginning of the all-volunteer force. The number serving as enlisted personnel has grown from 42,278 in 1973 to 166,729 in 2010, and the number serving as commissioned officers has increased from 12,750 to 35,341 over that same period. At the […]

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    Chapter 4: Public Attitudes on Intermarriage

    More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) view more intermarriages as a change for the better in our society, while about one-in-ten (11%) say it has been a change for the worse,[13. numoffset=”13″ For a better fit with survey practice, the wording “people of different races marrying each other,” instead of “interracial or interethnic marriages” was used […]

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    Frustration with Congress Could Hurt Republican Incumbents

    Overview Public discontent with Congress has reached record levels, and the implications for incumbents in next year’s elections could be stark. Two-in-three voters say most members of Congress should be voted out of office in 2012 – the highest on record. And the number who say their own member should be replaced matches the all-time […]

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    Section 2: Occupy Wall Street and Inequality

    Nearly three months after protests began in New York and later expanded to cities around the country, 44% support the Occupy Wall Street movement and 35% oppose it. Americans are much more likely to agree with the concerns raised by the movement than to approve of its tactics. By 48% to 30%, more Americans agree […]

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    Nomination Race Hurting GOP, But Not Helping Obama

    As the fight for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination unfolds, more Americans say their impression of the GOP field is worsening than improving. Those views, however, have not resulted in a better view of President Barack Obama at this point. By a margin of two-to-one, more say that their impression of the GOP field is […]

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    Part 3: The Structure of Friendship

    In this section we look at measures of Facebook use that we could only obtain from logs of people’s actual use of Facebook. Specifically, we examine how these measures relate to people’s everyday experiences outside of Facebook in terms of the amount of social support they receive, trust, and political participation. A friend of a […]