The Digital World Atlas is a site Mobile Ministry Forum is developing to provide a “one-stop-shop” for all your country-specific information needs! The current problem is that neither site will give you everything you might want to learn as a media ministry practitioner. That’s where our latest project comes in – the Media Ministry Background Data Research Tool. One item you won’t find in either of the first two sources (but coming soon from the Atlas) is the “religiosity” of a country’s people. Find data on that in the Data Research Tool’s Demographics.
- It might be helpful to know the top phones people are using in your country.
- You can find the top Android phones by country in the Mobile section.
- How affordable is the Internet and how censored is it in your nation? We’ve got you covered in the Internet section.
- What are people in your country searching for the most?? We’ve got a link to that in Search.
- Who are the top TikTok influencers in your country? You will find a link in Social Media.
- You’ll find this information and so much more in this tool, but you won’t find any of them in the Atlas or DataReportal slides.
The Media Ministry Background Data Research Tool is built to be comprehensive, and it is actually TOO comprehensive. We recommend you download it, delete the data sets you don’t need, then gather what you saved to create an updated media ministry profile for your country. This will help guide your team, as you move ahead with media ministry during 2021.
We recently shared resources that detail the digital habits of people in dozens of countries. Gordon Conwell’s Center for the Study of Global Christianity has released its Status of Global Christianity 2021, which shows that the growth of the world’s Christian population has, once more, fallen behind the overall population growth (but only by one one-hundredth of a percentage point). But more importantly, the report shows that the vast majority of non-Christians – 81.8% of them (4.36 billion souls) – do not personally know any Christians! This is why the Mobile Ministry Forum exists – these people may have no other means to be introduced to Jesus and His people except the screen and speaker of their mobile phones.
Here are some stats from DataReportal, which provides dozens of country-specific reports and beautiful “slide decks” of data. They have released their annual authoritative Digital Global Overview Report, and there is a lot to chew on in its 299 slides! Did you know that the number of social media users in the world grew by nearly half a billion in 2020 (from just over 3.7 billion to 4.2 billion)? Take a look through the slide deck for information about the world population (slides 12-21), global/regional/country-level Internet use (slides 22-77), social media use (slides 78-185), and mobile phone use (slides 186-222).
In February, DataReportal has released reports for individual countries, see that here. Our prayer is that you will take what you learn here and turn it into fuel for prayer and action for the people God wants you to be salt and light among!
Courtesy : Mobile Ministry Forum