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A Nepali church. Christianity is, according to the 2021 census, the fifth most practiced religion in Nepal, with 512,313 adherents or 1.8%, [1] up from 2011 when there were 375,699 adherents or 1.4% of the population. [2]
Pashupatinath Temple in the capital Kathmandu is a World Heritage Site. Religion in Nepal encompasses a wide diversity of groups and beliefs. [2] Nepal is a secular nation and secularism in Nepal under the Interim constitution (Part 1, Article 4) is defined as "Religious and cultural freedom along with the protection of religion and culture handed down from time immemorial."
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.
Population estimates from 2011 show the number of Catholics exceeding 10,000. [2] In 2011 the Nepal legislature proposed a series of laws making the changing of religions a crime [2] Catholic groups and individuals raised the issue of Nepal's anti-conversion laws to the United Nations Human Rights Council during the January 2011 review cycle. [23]
Nepal: 28,760,000 140,000 0.45 1,370,000 4.6 0 0 24,170,000 84 ... Population Christian Muslim Irreligion Hindu Buddhist Folk religion Other religion Jewish
By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. [58] ... Nepal, Mauritius and Guyana. Approximately 90% of the world's Hindus live in India.
The percentage of people saying they had no religion jumped from 25.2% in 2011 to over a third in 2021 (37.2%). Census: Less than half of England and Wales population identifies as Christian Skip ...
Hinduism is the dominant religion in India and Nepal and is the second-largest religion in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan. Indo-Aryan migrations brought the Indo-Aryans to South Asia, where they compiled and composed the Vedic corpus during the Vedic period (ca. 1500-500 BCE) across present-day Northern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.