In the book A Star in the East: The Rise of Christianity in China, Rodney Stark co-authoring with Xiuhua Wang, project the population of Christians in China this way:
1980 - 10 Million
1990 - 19.7 Million
2000 - 38.7 Million
2007 - 61.1 Million
2010 - 76.1 Million
2014 - 99.8 Million
2020 - 149.7 Million
2030 - 294.6 Million
2040 - 579.5 Million
This is arrived at by taking the growth rate of 7% per year. To arrive at this growth rate, he takes the figures of 10 million in 1980 and 60 million in 2007. To arrive at the figures of 1980 and 2007, the authors have based their estimate from various findings.
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