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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.
Map of major denominations and religions. One way to define a major religion is by the number of current adherents. The population numbers by religion are computed by a combination of census reports and population surveys (in countries where religion data is not collected in census, for example the United States or France), but results can vary widely depending on the way questions are phrased ...
World religions is a category used in the study of religion to demarcate at least five—and in some cases more—religions that are deemed to have been especially large, internationally widespread, or influential in the development of Western society.
Christianity is the largest religious group in the world, with an estimated 2.3 to 2.6 billion adherents in 2020. [3] [4 ... A map of Catholicism by population ...
According to World Population Review, there were 2.38 billion Christians around the world in 2021. [203] According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, if current trends continue, Christianity will remain the world's largest religion by year 2050.
Reliable data on religious demography is difficult to obtain because an official nationwide census has not been conducted in decades. U.S. government estimates indicate a population of approximately 30.4 million, with Sunni Muslims comprising 80% of the population, Shia Muslims making up about 19%, and other religious groups comprising less than 1%.
Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world. [287] Hindus made up about 17% of the world's population in 2010. [288] According to Pew Research Center 99% of Hindus lived in the Indo-Pacific region in 2010. According to Pew Forum, Hindus are anticipated to continue to be concentrated primarily in the Indo-Pacific region in 2050.
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 .