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This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
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.
A state religion (also called ... which also has Muslim-majority population, became a secular country after Atatürk's ... is defined as "religious and cultural ...
Former countries by state religion (4 C) A. Atheist states (2 C, 9 P) B. Buddhist states (6 C, 4 P) C. Christian states (6 C, 131 P) H. ... Statistics; Cookie statement;
The government does not collect or publish statistics on religious affiliation. A 2011 report by the King Baudouin Foundation estimates the religious affiliation of the population to be 50% Roman Catholic, 32% without affiliation, 9% atheist, 6% Muslim, 2.5% other Christian, 0.4% Jewish, and 0.3% Buddhist. Other religious groups include Hindus ...
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. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [12]
By RYAN GORMAN The majority of the world's religions are concentrated in only a handful of countries, a new report has revealed. Half of the planet's population lives in only six nations, and ...
Only six countries are predominantly Christian: Asian Russia which predominantly adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church; Cyprus, which is predominantly Orthodox; the Philippines, which is the third-largest Roman Catholic nation in the world; [33] Timor Leste, which is the most overwhelming Christian (99.6%) and Roman Catholic nation in Asia (97 ...