Ref BR 95 .W67 2001
World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World. Barrett, et al., eds. Statistics updated in the January issues of International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
Ref BV 2040 .E5 1891
Encyclopedia of Missions: Descriptive, Historical, Biographical, Statistical. 2 vols., 1891. Useful for researching the history of missions.
Ref BV 2050 .D55 2004-06
Mission Handbook: U.S/Canadaian Protestant Ministries Overseas
Ref BV 2050 .J63 2001
Operation World. 2001. Missions related statistics and information for different countries.
Ref BV 2120 .T185x 1989
Target Earth: The Necessity of Diversity in a Holistic Perspective on World Mission. Frank Kaleb Jansen, ed. Statistics drawn from Britannica’s Britannica World Data. For more current statistics, see the gray pages of the annual volume of Britannica Book of the Year (Ref AE 5 .E364).
Ref HA 12.5 .U63 2002-2004
Statistical Yearbook. 2002-2004
Profiles the UN member nations using these major headings: geography, human factors (includes ethnic division and religion), education, science and technology, government and law, labor force, production sectors, manufacturing sector, and finance, economics, trade.
Ref HA 202 .S7x 2000
Statistical Abstract of the United States.
The standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Religion falls under Section 1, Population.
Additional books can be found using the LC subject headings "Missions Statistics" or "Statistics" in TrinCat.
One can search also the ATLA database using the subject headings, "statistics," "church statistics," or specify by country as, for example, "church statistics Africa."
For a wealth of background information and statistics on the countries of the world, see The World Factbook published by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Available online at http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
