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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