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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.
The Tian Tan Buddha statue of Buddha in Hong Kong.. Buddhism is a non-theistic Dharmic religion and philosophy. [8] Buddhism was founded around the 5th century BCE in present-day Nepal by Siddhartha Gautama, known to his followers as the Buddha, with the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path as its central principles.
In the study of comparative religion, the East Asian religions or Taoic religions, form a subset of the Eastern religions, who originated in East Asia. Main hall of the City of the Eight Symbols in Qi County, Hebi, the headquarters of the Weixinist Church in Henan. Weixinism is a Chinese salvationist religion.
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 .
Islam is the second largest religion in Asia with about 1.2 billion adherents. [54] [55] Asia constitute in absolute terms the world's Muslim population. [56] South and Southeast Asia are home of the most populous Muslim countries, with Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh having more than 100 million adherents.
Religion in West Asia (13 C, 1 P) H. Religion in the Himalayas (2 C) K. Religion in Kurdistan (4 C, 9 P) M. Religion in the Middle East (15 C, 10 P) P.
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