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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 ...
The five largest religious groups by world population, estimated to account for 5.8 billion people and 84% of the population, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism (with the relative numbers for Buddhism and Hinduism dependent on the extent of syncretism), and traditional folk religions.
United Church of Christ in the Philippines – 0.5 million [141] Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa – 0.5 million [142] Presbyterian Church in America – 0.4 million [143] Presbyterian Church of Pakistan – 0.4 million [144] Kosin Presbyterian Church in Korea – 0.4 million; Church of Scotland – 0.3 million [145] or 1.5 ...
Buddhists constitute 2.5% of the population, Muslims 2.2%, Hindus 1.3%, and Jews 0.5%. The census indicated that indigenous persons constitute 2.5% of the population (approximately 548,370 people) and that 1% of indigenous respondents practice traditional indigenous religions. Affiliation with a traditional indigenous religion is higher in very ...
Symbols commonly associated with six of the religions labelled "world religions": clockwise from the top, these represent Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Christianity. Based on projections from the Pew Research Center, this data visualization uses circles (each representing 0.23 billion people) to show the changing religious ...
A comprehensive religious forecast for 2050 by the Pew Research Center predicts that the global Muslim population will grow at a faster rate than the Christian population – primarily due to the average younger age, and higher fertility rate of Muslims. [4] [5] [6] Religious conversion has no net impact on the Muslim population growth.
As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population. [2] According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.