Eastern Christianity

== Migration trends ==
There has been a significant Christian migration in the 20th century from the Near East. Fifteen hundred years ago Christians were the majority population in today's Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. In 1914 Christians constituted 25% of the population of the Ottoman Empire. At the beginning of the 21st century Christians constituted 6–7% of the region's population: less than 1% in Turkey, 3% in Iraq, 12% in Syria, 39% in Lebanon, 6% in Jordan, 2.5% in Israel/Palestine and 15–20% in Egypt.

As of 2011 Eastern Orthodox Christians are [[American upper class|among the wealthiest]] Christians in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/faith-education-and-income/ |title=Faith, Education and Income |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=13 May 2011 |first=David |last=Leonhardt |date=13 May 2011}}</ref> They also tend to be better educated than most other religious groups in America, having a high number of [[Academic degree|graduate]] (68%) and [[post-graduate]] (28%) degrees per capita.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report-religious-landscape-study-full.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report-religious-landscape-study-full.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=US Religious Landscape Survey: Diverse and Dynamic |publisher=The Pew Forum |page=85 |date=February 2008 |access-date=17 September 2012 |ref=refEducationLevel}}</ref>