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Large Buddhist populations live in North Korea, South Korea, Nepal, and India. China has the largest population of Buddhists, around 470 million or 33.3% of its total population according to the new data of 2023. [1] They are mostly followers of Chinese schools of Mahayana, making this the largest body of Buddhist traditions.
Pew Research Center made its "Population Growth Projections, ... Largest Buddhist populations ... ) in countries with a national population ≥200,000: ...
The population growth rate estimates (according to the United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020 [1] This article includes a table of countries and subnational areas by annual population growth rate.
Countries portal Subcategories. This category has the following 74 subcategories, out of 74 total. ... Buddhist communities by country (7 C) Buddhists by nationality ...
World Buddhist population by percentage (Pew Research Center, 2010). Buddhist expansion in Asia via the Silk Road. Schools of Buddhism in contemporary Asia.
This list includes Buddhist kingdoms, empires, and khanates in South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and Eastern Europe. South Asia [ edit ]
It is the world's fourth-largest religion, [8] [9] with over 520 million followers, known as Buddhists, who comprise seven percent of the global population. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] It arose in the eastern Gangetic plain as a śramaṇa movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread throughout much of Asia.
The Thai Sangha has led various Theravada Buddhist missionary works in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North America, where most delegations focused on the United States, rather than Asian countries with dwindling Theravada Buddhist populations such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Brunei, and eastern Malaysia. [13]