Category Archives: Statistics
From time to time we like to take a look at our stats to see if we can learn anything new about how people are using Bible Gateway. This morning we looked up statistics on traffic from major cities over the past month. We were specifically looking to see what passages people in different cities were looking up. What follows is a list of the top ten cities based on traffic from the past month to Bible Gateway as well as the top five passages—irrespective of translation—that each city was reading….
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Americans born between 1997 and 2012—characterized as Gen Z—are still deciding what to do with the Bible while exhibiting openness to Scripture, according to American Bible Society’s (@americanbible) 11th annual State of the Bible report. “Many in Gen Z are coming of age without the wisdom and comfort that others have found in the Bible,” […]
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According to Barna Group data collected between 2005 and 2021, about three in 10 USA adults reads the Bible at least once a week. [Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, 2016: What Are America’s Most Bible-Minded Cities?] City data taken from Barna’s annual tracking research reveals the top-ranked city for Bible-reading—Monroe, Louisiana—roughly doubles the national […]
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One in four USA adults report a more frequent Bible reading habit than did last year, according to American Bible Society’s (@americanbible) 11th annual State of the Bible report. [Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Latest Bible-Related Research]
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Critical news events of 2020 corresponded with extreme spikes in keyword/keyphrase searches of the Bible over 2019 on Bible Gateway—the world’s most visited Christian website—and can be grouped into the four main themes of social, pandemic, political, and end times. [Read the Bible Gateway post, 2020 in Review]
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Many members of the US military community turn to the Bible, their church, and their pastor or chaplain for spiritual and emotional support, according to the State of the Bible 2020 research report commissioned by American Bible Society (@americanbible) and conducted by Barna Group (@barnagroup). Over two million Americans serve in the US military and […]
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According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, the global Christian population totals 2.5 billion people. To help in the comprehension of that number, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Center for the Study of Global Christianity (@CSGC) has compressed it into this graphic as if 100 Christians represented all of global Christianity:
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The Blessing is a song written by Chris Brown, Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe, and Steven Furtick, which debuted in March 2020 at No. 3 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart, according to Wikipedia. The song’s music video on YouTube has more than 22 million views. [Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Sign Up for […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic seems to be causing a paradox of Bible reading for American adults. According to American Bible Society’s (ABS) report, State of the Bible 2020, the number of American adults considered “Scripture engaged” based on how frequently they read the Bible and its impact on their relationships and choices dropped from 28% to […]
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People often turn to the Bible for insights into current events, with aggregated anonymous searches on Bible Gateway statistics reflecting major trends. The below chart lists the major topics that people have been searching for in the Bible from May 26 through June 9, 2020, graphing the percentage increase over the average for the week […]
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