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This is a work in progress. I am assembling as
much reference material as possible on the different religions.
There are many places online that have much more complete and
wide ranging groups of texts. Each religion on the left will have
links to those sites. Below is a chart showing estimates of population
by religion.
Population
Estimates of World Religions
by BPatter789
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1985 Estimate |
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< >
| 1993 Estimate |
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| World Population |
4,781,200,000 |
100.00% |
< >
| 5,575,954,000 |
100.00% |
| Christianity |
1,548,500,000 |
32.40% |
< >
| 1,869,751,000 |
33.53% |
| Islam |
817,000,000 |
17.10% |
< >
| 1,014,000,000 |
18.19% |
| Nonreligious |
805,900,000 |
16.90% |
< >
| 912,874,000 |
16.37% |
| Hinduism |
647,500,000 |
13.50% |
< >
| 751,360,000 |
13.48% |
| Buddhism |
295,600,000 |
6.20% |
< >
| 334,002,000 |
6.00% |
| Atheist |
210,500,000 |
4.40% |
< >
| 241,852,000 |
4.34% |
| Chinese Folk Religions |
188,000,000 |
3.90% |
< >
| 140,956,000 |
2.53% |
| New Asian Religions |
106,400,000 |
2.20% |
< >
| 123,765,000 |
2.22% |
| Tribal Religions |
91,200,000 |
1.90% |
< >
| 99,736,000 |
1.79% |
| Sikhism |
16,100,000 |
0.34% |
< >
| 19,853,000 |
0.36% |
| Judaism |
17,800,000 |
0.40% |
< >
| 18,153,000 |
0.33% |
| Shamanism |
12,200,000 |
0.30% |
< >
| 10,854,000 |
0.19% |
| Confucianism |
5,200,000 |
0.11% |
< >
| 6,230,000 |
0.12% |
| Bah'aism |
4,400,000 |
0.09% |
< >
| 5,742,000 |
0.10% |
| Jainism |
3,300,000 |
0.07% |
< >
| 3,927,000 |
0.07% |
| Shintoism |
3,200,000 |
0.07% |
< >
| 3,336,000 |
0.06% |
| Other Religionists |
|
0.00% |
< >
| 19,183,000 |
3.44% |
| Spiritism |
6,700,000 |
0.14% |
< >
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0.00% |
| Zoroastrianism |
500,000 |
0.01% |
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0.00% |
Data, for 1985, are taken from
The Universal Almanac, 1995, Andrews & McMeel, ISBN
0-8362-8068-7, and, for 1993, from The World Almanac and Book
of Facts 1995, World Almanac, ISBN 0-8868-7766-0. Both
sources rely for their data upon estimates prepared by the World
Christian Encyclopedia.
Categories defined in World Almanac footnotes include:
Chinese folk religionists include
followers of traditional Chinese religion (local deities, ancestor
veneration, Confucian ethics, Taoism, universism, divination,
and some Buddhist elements).
New-Religionists include followers of Asian 20th Century New Religions,
New Religious movements, radical new crisis religions, and non-Christian
syncretistic mass religions, all founded since 1800 and mostly
since 1945.
Confucians include non-Chinese
followers of Confucius and Confucianism, mostly Koreans in Korea.
Other religionists include members
of 70 minor world religions and a large number of spiritist
religions, New Age religions, quasi religions, pseudo religions,
para-religions, religious or mystic systems, and religious and
semireligious brotherhoods.
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