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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 ...
At approximately 1.2 billion, [83] Hindus are the world's third-largest religious group after Christians and Muslims. The vast majority of Hindus, approximately 966 million (94.3% of the global Hindu population), live in India, according to the 2011 Indian census. [84]
Hinduism is the majority religion in South Asia, and most of the world's Hindus are home to the region. [46] 5 of the 10 nations with the biggest Hindu populations are in South Asia, namely India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India is home to more than 1.2 billion Hindus, 94% of the world's global Hindu population. [47]
Indian religions, also known as Dharmic religions, are a major form of world religions along with Abrahamic ones. Today, Hinduism and Buddhism are the world's third- and fourth-largest religions respectively, with over 1 billion followers altogether, [88] [89] [90] and possibly as many as 1.5 or 1.6 billion followers.
In 2020, the total number of Hindus in Asia is more than 1.2 billion, more than 26.2% of Asia's total population. [1] [2] About 99.2% of the world's Hindus live in Asia, with India having 94% of the global Hindu population.
In 1901, Hindus constituted 33% of the population of what is now Bangladesh. [30] In 1941, about 28% of the population were Hindus. Their proportion declined to 22% in 1951 after the Partition of India in 1947, as Hindus migrated from East Bengal to India. Wealthy Hindus who migrated lost their land and assets through the East Bengal Evacuees ...
The word Hindū is an exonym, [30] derived from Sanskrit Sindhu, [31] the name of the Indus River as well as the country of the lower Indus basin . [32] [33] [note 10] The Proto-Iranian sound change *s > h occurred between 850 and 600 BCE. [35] "Hindu" occurs in Avesta as heptahindu, equivalent to Rigvedic sapta sindhu. [36]
The vast majority of Hindus in West Bengal are Bengali Hindus numbering around 5.5 crore out of the total estimated state population of 10 crore, [65] [66] but a notable section of non-Bengali Hindus also exist, particularly among Marwaris, Biharis, Odias, Gurkhas, Punjabis, Sindhis, Gujaratis and various tribal communities such as Koch Raj ...