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African Americans. Religion of Black Americans refers to the religious and spiritual practices of African Americans. Historians generally agree that the religious life of Black Americans "forms the foundation of their community life". [1] Before 1775 there was scattered evidence of organized religion among Black people in the Thirteen Colonies.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Black churches primarily arose in the 19th century, during a time when race-based slavery and racial segregation were both commonly practiced in the United States. Blacks generally searched for an area where they could independently express their faith, find leadership, and escape from inferior treatment in White dominated churches.
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Evangelical Christian Church of the Land of Papua – 0.6 million [165] Protestant Church of Maluku – 0.6 million [166] Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa – 0.5 million [167] Reformed Church in Romania – 0.5 million [168] Toraja Church – 0.4 million [169] Reformed Church of France – 0.4 million [170]
t. e. Christian population growth is the population growth of the global Christian community. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were more than 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, more than three times as many as the 600 million recorded in 1910. However, this rate of growth is slower than the overall population ...
Demographics of Earth. Population pyramid of the world in 2022 by the UN. Population. Over 8,120,531,329 (estimated) Fertility rate. 2.27 (2021) Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with more ...
The 2015 Pew Religious Landscape survey reported that as of 2014, 22.8% of the American population is religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1% and agnostics made up 4% of the US population. [60] In 2020, the World Religion Database estimated that the countries with the highest percentage of atheists were North Korea and Sweden. [61]