This is a list of religious populations by number of adherents and countries.
Adherents in 2010
Religion | Adherents | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Christianity | 2.168 billion | 31.4%[1] |
Islam | 1.599 billion | 23.2%[1] |
Secular[a]/Nonreligious[b]/Agnostic/Atheist | 1.193 billion | 15.6% |
Hinduism | 1.161 billion | 15.2% |
Buddhism | 506 million | 6.6% |
Chinese traditional religion[c] | 394 million | 5% |
Ethnic religions excluding some in separate categories | 300 million | 3% |
African traditional religions | 100 million[4] | 1.2% |
Sikhism | 26 million | 0.30% |
Spiritism | 15 million | 0.19% |
Judaism | 14.7 million[5] | 0.18% |
Baháʼí | 5.0 million[6] | 0.07% |
Jainism | 4.2 million | 0.05% |
Shinto | 4.0 million | 0.05% |
Cao Dai | 4.0 million | 0.05% |
Zoroastrianism | 2.6 million | 0.03% |
Tenrikyo | 2.0 million | 0.02% |
Animism | 1.9 million | 0.02% |
Neo-Paganism | 1.0 million | 0.01% |
Unitarian Universalism | 0.8 million | 0.01% |
Rastafari | 0.6 million | 0.007% |
total | 7.79 billion | 100% |
Notes
- ^ These figures may incorporate populations of secular/nominal adherents as well as syncretist worshipers, although the concept of syncretism is disputed by some.
- ^ Nonreligious includes agnostic, atheist, secular humanist, and people answering 'none' or no religious preference. Half of this group is theistic but nonreligious.[2] According to a 2012 study by Gallup International "59% of the world said that they think of themselves as religious person, 23% think of themselves as not religious whereas 13% think of themselves as convinced atheists".[3]
- ^ Chinese traditional religion is described as "the common religion of the majority Chinese culture: a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, as well as the traditional non-scriptural/local practices and beliefs."
By proportion
Christians
Countries and territories with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country (as of 2010):
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Vatican City 100% (100% Roman Catholic)
Pitcairn Islands 100% (100% Seventh-day Adventist)[7]
Samoa ~99% (mostly Protestant)[8]
Romania 99% (mostly Romanian Orthodox)
East Timor 99.6%[9] (mostly Roman Catholic)
American Samoa 98.3% (mostly Protestant)[10]
Malta 98.1%[11] (mostly Roman Catholic)
Venezuela 98%[12] (71% Roman Catholic)
Greece 98% [13] (95% Greek Orthodox)
Marshall Islands 97.2% (mostly Protestant)[14]
Tonga 97.2% (mostly Protestant)[15]
San Marino 97%[16] (~97% Roman Catholic)
Paraguay 96.9%[17] (mostly Roman Catholic)
El Salvador 96.4% (mostly Roman Catholic)[18]
Kiribati 96% (mostly Protestant)[19]
Federated States of Micronesia ~96% (mostly Protestant)[20]
Barbados 95.1% (mostly Protestant)[21]
Papua New Guinea 94.8% (mostly Protestant)[22]
Peru 94.51% (mostly Roman Catholic)[23]
Armenia 93.5%[24] (mostly Armenian Orthodox)
Muslims
Countries with the greatest proportion of Muslims from Islam by country (as of 2010) (figures excluding foreign workers in parenthesis):
Data is based on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life [25]
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Afghanistan 99.7%[26] (mostly Sunni, 20% Shi'a)[25]
Tunisia 99.5% (mostly Sunni)
Iran 99.4% (mostly Shi'a)[27]
Azerbaijan 99.2% (70-80% Shi'a)[25]
Yemen 99.1% (40-45% Shi'a) [25]
Mauritania 99.1%
Morocco ~99%
Iraq 99% (70-75% Shi'a)[25]
Niger 98.6% (mostly Sunni)[25]
Somalia 98.5% (mostly Sunni)
Maldives 98.4% (mostly Sunni)
Comoros 98.3% (mostly Sunni)[28]
Algeria 98%
Saudi Arabia ~97% (10-15% Shi'a)[25]
Djibouti 96.9% (mostly Sunni)[25]
Libya 96.6% (Mostly Sunni)[29]
Pakistan 96.4%[30]
Egypt 90% (Mostly Sunni)[31]
Bangladesh 89.6% (Mostly Sunni)[25]
Turkey 89.5% (Mostly Sunni)[32]
Indonesia 88.2% (Mostly Sunni)[25]
Sierra Leone 78.00% (mostly Sunni)[33]
Bosnia and Herzegovina 77.9% (Mostly Sunni)
Kuwait 74.6%[34] (20-25% Shi'a)[citation needed]
Bahrain 73.7% [35] (Mostly Shi'a)[citation needed]
Sudan 71.3% (mostly Sunni)[36]
Malaysia 60.4% (mostly Sunni)[25]
Irreligious and atheist
Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion (including agnostics and atheists) from Irreligion by country (as of 2020):[37]
Czech Republic (78.4%)[37]
North Korea (71.3%)[37]
Estonia (60.2%)[37]
Japan (60%)[37]
Hong Kong (54.7%)[37]
China (51.8%)[37]
South Korea (46.6%)[37]
Latvia (45.3%)[37]
Netherlands (44.3%)[37]
Uruguay (41.5%)[37]
New Zealand (39.6%)[37]
Mongolia (36.5%)[37]
France (31.9%)[37]
United Kingdom (31.2%)[37]
Belgium (31%)[37]
Vietnam (29.9%)[37]
Sweden (29%)[37]
Australia (28.6%)[37]
Belarus (28.6%)[37]
Luxembourg (26.7%)[37]
Germany (26.3%)[37]
Remarks: Ranked by mean estimate which is in brackets. Irreligious includes agnostic, atheist, secular believer, and people having no formal religious adherence. It does not necessarily mean that members of this group don't belong to any religion. Some religions have harmonized with local cultures and can be seen as a cultural background rather than a formal religion. Additionally, the practice of officially associating a family or household with a religious institute while not formally practicing the affiliated religion is common in many countries. Thus, over half of this group is theistic and/or influenced by religious principles, but nonreligious/non-practicing and not true atheists or agnostics.[2] See Spiritual but not religious.
Hindus
Countries with the greatest proportion of Hindus from Hinduism by country (as of 2010):
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Nepal 81.3%[39]
India 79.8%[40]
Mauritius 48.54%[41]
Fiji 27.9%[42]
Bhutan 25%[43]
Guyana 24.8%[44]
Suriname 22.3%[45]
Trinidad and Tobago 18.2%[46]
United Arab Emirates 15%[47]
Sri Lanka 12.6%[48]
Kuwait 12%[49]
Bangladesh 9.6%[50]
Bahrain 8.1%[51]
Réunion 6.7%[52]
Malaysia 6.3%[53]
Singapore 5.1%
Oman 3%
Seychelles 2.1%[54]
New Zealand 2.0%[55]
Pakistan 1.8%
Indonesia 1.7%[56]
United Kingdom 1.7%[57]
United States 0.7%[58]
Buddhists
Countries with the greatest proportion of Buddhists from Buddhism by country (as of 2010):[59]
Cambodia 96.9%
Thailand 93.2%
Myanmar 80.1%
Bhutan 74.70%
Sri Lanka 69.3%
Laos 66.0%
Mongolia 55.1%
Japan 36.2%
Taiwan 35.1%
Singapore 33.2%
South Korea 22.9%
Malaysia 19.8%
China 18.2%
Macau 17.3%
Vietnam 16.4%
Hong Kong 13.2%
Nepal 10.3%
Taoists/Confucianists/Chinese traditional religionists
As a spiritual practice, Taoism has made fewer inroads in the West than Buddhism and Hinduism. Despite the popularity of its great classics the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching, the specific practices of Taoism have not been promulgated in America with much success;[60] these religions are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of bigger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. Nonetheless, Taoist ideas and symbols such as Taijitu have become popular throughout the world through Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, and various martial arts.[61]
Taiwan 33–80%[62]
China 30%[63]
Hong Kong 28%[64]
Macau 13.9%[65]
Singapore 8.5%[66]
Malaysia 2.6%[67]
South Korea 0.2–1%[68]
Vietnam
Philippines 0.01–0.05%
Indonesia 0.05%
The Chinese traditional religion has 184,000 believers in Latin America, 250,000 believers in Europe, and 839,000 believers in North America as of 1998.[69][70]
Ethnic and indigenous
All of the below come from the U.S. Department of State 2009 International Religious Freedom Report,[71] based on the highest estimate of people identified as indigenous or followers of indigenous religions that have been well-defined. Due to the syncretic nature of these religions, the following numbers may not reflect the actual number of practitioners.
Haiti 50%[72]
Guinea-Bissau 50%
Cameroon 40%
Togo 33%[73]
Côte d'Ivoire 25%
Sudan 25%[74]
Benin 23%
Burundi 20%
Burkina Faso 15%
New Zealand 15%[75]
South Africa 15%[76]
Democratic Republic of the Congo 12%
Central African Republic 10%
Gabon 10%
Lesotho 10%
Nigeria 10%
Sierra Leone 10%[77]
Indonesia 9%[78]
Kenya 9%
Palau 9%[79]
Ghana 8.5%
Guinea 5%
Sikhism
Countries with the greatest proportion of Sikhs:
India 1.9%
United Kingdom 1.2%[80][81]
Canada 1.4%[82]
Malaysia 0.5%[83]
New ZealandNew Zealand 0.42%
Fiji 0.3%[84]
Singapore 0.3%[85]
United States 0.2%[86][87]
Australia 0.1%[88][89]
Italy 0.1%[90]
The Sikh homeland is the Punjab state, in India, where today Sikhs make up approximately 61% of the population. This is the only place where Sikhs are in the majority. Sikhs have emigrated to countries all over the world – especially to English-speaking and East Asian nations. In doing so they have retained, to an unusually high degree, their distinctive cultural and religious identity. Sikhs are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. But they can be found in many international cities and have become an especially strong religious presence in the United Kingdom and Canada.[91]
Spiritism
Cuba 10.3%
Jamaica 10.2%
Brazil 4.8%
Suriname 3.6%
Haiti 2.7%
Dominican Republic 2.2%
The Bahamas 1.9%
Nicaragua 1.5%
Trinidad and Tobago 1.4%
Guyana 1.3%
Venezuela 1.1%
Colombia 1.0%
Belize 1.0%
Honduras 0.9%
Puerto Rico 0.7%
Panama 0.5%
Iceland 0.5%
Guadeloupe 0.4%
Argentina 0.2%
Guatemala 0.2%
Note that all these estimates come from a single source. However, this source gives a relative indication of the size of the Spiritist communities within each country.
Judaism
Countries with the greatest proportion of Jews (as of 2017):
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Israel 73.6%[5]
Gibraltar 2.0%[5]
United States 1.76%[5]
Canada 1.07%[5]
France 0.7%[5]
Hungary 0.485%[5]
Uruguay 0.483%[5]
Australia 0.47%[5]
United Kingdom 0.44%[5]
Argentina 0.41%[5]
U.S. Virgin Islands 0.36%[5]
Belgium 0.259%[5]
Panama 0.250%[5]
Latvia 0.24%[5]
Switzerland 0.22%[5]
Netherlands 0.17%[5]
New Zealand 0.16%[5]
Estonia 0.154%[5]
Bermuda 0.154%[5]
Sweden 0.152%[5]
Germany 0.14%[5]
South Africa 0.124%[5]
Ukraine 0.124%[5]
Russia 0.122%[5]
Denmark 0.112%[5]
Baháʼís
Countries with the greatest proportion of Baháʼís (as of 2010) with a national population ≥200,000:
Belize 2.5% (The 2010 Belize Population Census recorded 202 Baháʼís out of a total population of 304,106,[93][94] yielding a proportion of 0.066%)
Bolivia 2.2%
Zambia 1.8%
Mauritius 1.8% (The 2011 Mauritius census recorded 639 Baháʼís out of a total population of 1,236,817[95] yielding a proportion of 0.05%)
Guyana 1.6% (The 2002 Guyana census recorded 500 Baháʼís out of a total population of 751,223[96] yielding a proportion of 0.067%)
Vanuatu 1.4%
Barbados 1.2% (The 2010 Barbados census recorded 178 Baháʼís out of a total population of 250,010[97] yielding a proportion of 0.07%)
Trinidad and Tobago 1.2%
Panama 1.2%
Kenya 1.0%
Lesotho 0.9%
Papua New Guinea 0.9%
Réunion 0.9%
Chad 0.9%
Botswana 0.8%
Gambia 0.8%
Suriname 0.8%
Congo, Republic of the 0.6%
Solomon Islands 0.6%
Venezuela 0.6%
- Remarks and sources: The Association of Religion Data Archives' "Most Baháʼí Nations (2010)" which used the "World Christian Database" for adherents estimates based on information provided by the World Christian Encyclopedia and "World Christian Trends".[98] A source whose only systematic flaw was to consistently have a higher estimate of Christians than other cross-national data sets.[99] Various census figures of some of these countries vary significantly. See Baháʼí statistics.
Jainism
By population
Christians
Largest Christian populations (as of 2011):
United States 229,157,250[100] (details)
Brazil 169,213,130[101]
Russia 114,198,444[102]
Mexico 106,204,560[103]
Nigeria 80,510,000[104]
Philippines 78,790,000[105]
China 67,070,000[104]
Democratic Republic of the Congo 63,150,000[104]
Italy 55,832,000
Ethiopia 51,477,950
Germany 50,752,580[106]
Colombia 44,502,000
Ukraine 41,973,000
South Africa 40,243,000
France 39,560,000[104]
Spain 38,568,000
Poland 36,526,000
Kenya 33,625,790
Argentina 33,497,100
United Kingdom 33,200,417
Uganda 29,943,000
India 28,436,000
Venezuela 28,340,790
Peru 27,365,100
Indonesia 24,123,000
Hindus
Largest Hindu populations (as of 2020)[107]:
India 1,120,000,000
Nepal 28,600,000
Bangladesh 14,274,430
Indonesia 4,210,000-10,000,000
Pakistan 3,990,000
Sri Lanka 3,090,000
United States 2,510,000
Malaysia 1,940,000
United Arab Emirates 1,239,610
United Kingdom 1,030,000
South Africa 749,870
Mauritius 665,820
Myanmar 890,000[108]
Canada 610,000
South Africa 540,000
Saudi Arabia 440,000
Australia 410,000
Tanzania 403,570
Singapore 380,000
Qatar 360,000
Kuwait 330,000
Trinidad and Tobago 310,000[46]
Fiji 270,000[citation needed]
Guyana 200,000[109]
Yemen 200,000
Bhutan 190,000
Suriname 120,785[110]
Germany 120,000
Muslims
Largest Muslim populations (as of 2017):
Indonesia 245,000,000[56]
Pakistan 203,000,000
India 182,000,000
Bangladesh 142,937,800
Nigeria 90,000,000
Iran 73,238,340
Egypt 70,056,000
Turkey 70,036,838
Algeria 36,092,810
Morocco 31,351,800
Afghanistan 30,112,680
Sudan 30,064,180
Iraq 29,767,300
Ethiopia 28,120,050
Saudi Arabia 26,624,560
Uzbekistan 25,628,240
Russia 25,000,000[111]
Yemen 23,836,523
China 20,095,870
Syria 19,601,750
Malaysia 17,085,402
Buddhists
Largest Buddhist populations[112]
China 244,130,000
Thailand 64,420,000
Japan 45,820,000
Myanmar 38,410,000
Sri Lanka 14,450,000
Vietnam 14,380,000
Cambodia 13,690,000
South Korea 10,500,000
India 9,250,000
Malaysia 5,010,000
United States 3,800,023
Indonesia 1,710,000
Sikhs
Largest Sikh populations
India 22,892,600
United Kingdom 853,000
Canada 620,200
United States 500,010
Malaysia 120,000
Bangladesh 100,000[113]
Australia 72,300
Italy 70,000
Thailand 70,000
Myanmar 70,000
United Arab Emirates 50,000
Pakistan 50,000
Germany 40,000
Mauritius 37,700
Kenya 20,000
Kuwait 20,000
Philippines 20,000
New Zealand 17,400
Indonesia 15,000
Singapore 14,500
Jews
Largest Jewish populations (as of 2017):
Israel 6,451,000[5]
United States 5,700,000[5]
France 456,000[5]
Canada 390,000[5]
United Kingdom 289,500[5]
Argentina 180,500[5]
Russia 176,000[5]
Germany 116,500[5]
Australia 113,200[5]
Brazil 93,800[5]
South Africa 69,300[5]
Ukraine 53,000[5]
Hungary 47,500[5]
Mexico 40,000[5]
Netherlands 29,800[5]
Belgium 29,300[5]
Italy 27,300[5]
Switzerland 18,700[5]
Chile 18,300[5]
Uruguay 16,900[5]
Turkey 15,300[5]
Sweden 15,000[5]
Spain 11,800[5]
Belarus 10,000[5]
Panama 10,000[5]
Baháʼís
Largest Baháʼí populations (as of 2010) in countries with a national population ≥200,000:[114]
India 1,897,651 (The 2011 Census of India recorded 4,572 Baháʼís[115][116])
United States 512,864 (77,290 with good addresses)[117]
Kenya 422,782
Vietnam 388,802
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 282,916
Philippines 275,069
Iran 251,127
Zambia 241,112
South Africa 238,532
Bolivia 215,359
Tanzania 190,419
Venezuela 169,811
Uganda 95,098
Chad 94,499
Pakistan 87,259
Myanmar 78,915
Colombia 70,504
Malaysia 67,549
Thailand 65,096
Papua New Guinea 59,898
Jainism
As of 2005:[118]
India 5,146,697
United States 79,459
Kenya 68,848
United Kingdom 35,000
Canada 12,101
Tanzania 9,002
Nepal 6,800
Uganda 2,663
Myanmar 2,398
Malaysia 2,052
South Africa 1,918
Fiji 1,573
Japan 1,535
Belgium 1,500
Australia 1,449
Suriname 1,217
Ireland 1,000
Réunion 981
Yemen 229
See also
Religions:
- Religions by country
- Baháʼí Faith by continent
- Buddhism by country
- Christianity by country
- Hinduism by country
- Islam by country
- Judaism by country
- Sikhism by country
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External links
- Asian-Nation: Religious Affiliation among Asian Americans
- International Religious Freedom Report 2007 of U.S. Department of State
- Background Notes of U.S. Department of State
- The World Factbook of CIA
- Religious Freedom page
- Religious Intelligence
- BBC News – Muslims in Europe: Country guide
- Vipassana Foundation – Buddhists around the world