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Home to 163,260 Sikhs at the 2021 census, Brampton has the world's largest municipal Sikh population outside India. Gurdwara Amb Sahib is located in Mohali , Punjab , the largest Sikh-majority city on Earth with a total population of 166,864 at the 2011 census.
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.
With 25–30 millions, Sikhs represent less than 0.3% of the total world population in 2021. [94] Many countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, recognize Sikhs as a designated religion on their censuses [ 95 ] and, as of 2020, Sikhs are considered as a separate ethnic group in the United States. [ 96 ]
Sikhism is the fourth-largest religious group in Canada, with nearly 800,000 adherents, or 2.1% of Canada's population, as of 2021. [1] The largest Sikh populations in Canada are found in Ontario, followed by British Columbia and Alberta. [1]
While the U.S. Census does not ask about religion, [2] 70,697 Americans (or 0.02% of the total population) declared Sikh as their ethnicity in the 2020 census. [3] The U.S. Census Bureau cites the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey's estimate of the adult Sikh American population at 78,000. [4]
Italy has now emerged as a fast-growing area for Sikh migration, [25] with Reggio Emilia and the province of Vicenza being areas of significant Sikh population clusters. [26] Italian Sikhs are generally involved in the areas of agriculture, agro-processing, machine tools, and horticulture. [27]
According to the 1941 census, the Sikh population comprised roughly 1.67 million persons or 6.1 percent of the total population in the region that would ultimately become Pakistan, [a] notably concentrated in West Punjab, within the contemporary province of Punjab, Pakistan, where the Sikh population stood at roughly 1.52 million persons or 8.8 ...
Canada is home to the largest proportion of Sikhs, as a ratio of the country's total population, in the world, at 2.1%. [274] Within Canada, Sikhs form 5.9% of the total population in the western province of British Columbia, representing the third-largest Sikh proportion amongst all global administrative divisions, behind only Punjab and ...