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Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2050. Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. Retrieved on 2021-09-26. Additional sources used in creating this map: India: Kramer, Stephanie (2021-09-21). Key findings about the religious composition of India. Pew Research Center. Retrieved on 2021-09-26.
Map showing the population density in India, per 2011 Census. [100] India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [101] lived in about 638,000 villages [102] and the remaining 27.8% [101] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations ...
Religion in India is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's culture and the Indian subcontinent is the birthplace of four of the world's major religions, namely, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which are collectively known as native Indian religions or Dharmic religions and ...
An estimated 7.3 million Hindus and Sikhs moved to India and 7.2 million Muslims moved to Pakistan permanently, leading to demographic change of both the nations to a certain extent. As a result of this, India's Hindu population have increased exponentially from 74.8% in 1941 to 84.1% in 1951 Census respectively. [12] [13]
The Hindu population around the world as of 2020 is about 1.2 billion, making it the world's third-largest religion after Christianity and Islam, of which nearly 1.1 billion Hindus live in India. [7] [8] India contains 94% of the global Hindu population. [9] [10] According to a statistical study, an estimated 100 million Hindus live outside of ...
[122] [123] This represents an early religious and cultural fusion [124] [note 23] or synthesis [126] between ancient Dravidians and Indo-Aryans, which became more evident over time with sacred iconography, traditions, philosophy, flora, and fauna that went on to influence Hinduism, Buddhism, Charvaka, Sramana, and Jainism. [127] [125] [128] [129]
Some are current, but the above map differs in setting the lower limit of the lightest band to 1%. Gray color for a nation means near zero % of the population in that nation is Hindu. Numbers have been rounded to nearest integer for coloring purposes. Source: Pew Research Center, Washington DC, Religious Composition by Country (December 2012)
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.