[gondramB]

"Where did you pull that figure from? I think I can guess it's very near you hip pockets."

I guessed.

But with 2 billion Christians and literal word for word belief in the Bible being a largely American phenomenon I don't see how the figure can be higher than 10% -that would be 200,000,000 fundamentalists.

[twippo]

It's largely an American phenomenon among the developed Western nations, but U.S. Evangelical missionaries have made many converts in Latin America, Asia and Africa and spread that theology. The Caribbean Christians tend to be literalist as well.