How does the world’s population identify religious/belief affiliation?  The first chart presents affiliation to the major world religions/beliefs according to percentages while the chart on the second presents adherents by numbers.

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“The Future of World Religions”  Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org, accessed on June 26, 2015.


“Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents”  Adherent.com.,(August 9, 2007). http://www.adherents.com/, accessed on June 26, 2015.

Worldwide Affiliation

Christianity - 2.01 billion

Islam - 1.5 billion

Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist - 1.1. billion

Hinduism - 900 million

Chinese Traditional Religion* -  394 million

Buddhism - 367 million

primal-indigenous - 300 million

African Traditional & Diasporic:  100 million

Sikhism - 23 million

Juche - 19 million

Spiritism: - 15 million

Judaism - 14 million

Baha’ism - 7 million

Jainism - 4.2 million

Shintoism - 4 million

Cao Dai - 4 million

Zoroastrian - 2.6 million

Tenrikyo - 2 million

Neo-Paganism - 1 million

Unitarian-Universalism - 800 thousand

Rastafarianism - 600 thousand

Scientology - 500 thousand


*Chinese Traditional Religion includes a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism

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