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2 days ago · As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population. According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.
3 days ago · Appendix A: Sources. By Jonathan Evans, Alan Cooperman, Kelsey Jo Starr, Manolo Corichi, William Miner and Kirsten Lesage. This appendix lists the survey sources used to measure religious switching, importance of religion and daily prayer for adults in 102 countries and territories.
3 days ago · The percentages of adults in Hong Kong (37%) and South Korea (35%) who say they were raised in a religion but no longer identify with one are the highest in the world, overshadowing several ...
2 days ago · This list of Buddhism by country shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population. It also includes other entities such as some territories.
2 days ago · Some academics studying the subject have divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; Indigenous religions, which refers to smaller, culture-specific or nation-specific religious groups; and new religious movements, which refers to recently developed faiths. [5] One ...
4 days ago · A more permanent presence, which led to French military intervention, was established in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the early 21st century some 9 percent of the population of Vietnam was Christian. Dutch chaplains established churches in Indonesia in the 17th century.
3 days ago · The rate of religious conversion in East Asia is among the highest in the world: Half of adults in Hong Kong and South Korea have left the religion they were brought up in for another...
