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As of the early 21st century, Christianity has approximately 2.2 billion adherents. Christianity represents about a third of the world’s population and is the world’s largest religion. Christianity is the state religion of several countries. Among all Christians, 37.5% live in the Americas, 25.7% live in Europe, 22.5% live in Africa, 13.1% live in Asia, 1.2% live in Oceania and 0.9% live in the Middle East. Christianity has played a prominent role in the shaping of sub-Saharan African and Western civilization. 3.3.1 Christianity I. Australia According to the 2001 census, 67