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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.
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
List of Castes/Ethnicities by population in Nepal- NPHC 2021 [9] Rank Caste/ethnicity Total Total % Total ... Christian: 512313 1.76 Christian: 375699 1.42 Prakrit ...
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]
This list may not reflect recent changes. * ... Christian emigration; Christian population growth; ... Irreligion in Nepal;
Reliable data on religious demography is difficult to obtain because an official nationwide census has not been conducted in decades. U.S. government estimates indicate a population of approximately 30.4 million, with Sunni Muslims comprising 80% of the population, Shia Muslims making up about 19%, and other religious groups comprising less than 1%.