- Barrett and Johnson have defined evangelicals (lowercase) as the broad stream of Christians who are affiliated with a Christian denomination or movement that actively evangelizes or sends missionaries. They have also referred to this category in a near equivalent term: Great Commission Christians.
- Pentecostals/Charismatics and evangelicals are overlapping subsets of the larger total of all Christians.
- The total growth rate is the sum of growth that occurs by births minus deaths (natural growth) and by a shift of faith allegiance (conversion growth). This figure is an annual average of data collected from the years 1990-1995.
- Conversion growth is the annual increase (or decrease) in followers of a particular faith that is attributable to a shift of faith allegiance. These figures are annual averages measured and forecasted from the years 1990-2000.
- At a glance, it may seem odd that Christians have a growth rate of 1.45 percent (Figure 4), but still have a slightly downward slope on the graph (Figure 1). This is because the calculated growth rate of Christianity (1.45%) is slightly lower than the population growth of the world (1.47%).
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