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  1. Countries with more than 500,000 Hindu residents and citizens are (in decreasing order) India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia (with Bali being 87% Hindu), Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Myanmar, Australia, Mauritius, South Africa, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.

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  2. Hinduism is the third-largest religion worldwide, with approximately 1.2 billion Hindus in many different countries. Oddly, Hinduism is the dominant religion in only three countries—but one of the three happens to be the second-most-populated country in the world, India, (78.9%).

  3. Dec 18, 2012 · Hindus form a majority in just three countries: Nepal (81%), India (80%) and Mauritius (56%). But 97% of all Hindus live in those countries, making Hindus the most likely of the religious groups in this study to live as a majority.

  4. Hinduism comes originally from populous India, which is why it is very widespread, with about one billion people. And 92 percent of all Hindus come from India. With more than 3,500 years, it is also one of the oldest religions with widespread practice today. Hinduism (also known as "Sanatana Dharma") is a polytheistic or henotheistic religion.

  5. Apr 19, 2024 · Hinduism, major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual. If the Indus valley civilization (3rd–2nd millennium BCE) was the earliest source of Hindu traditions, then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth.

  6. Apr 2, 2015 · As of 2010, more than 99% of all Hindus lived in the 10 countries with the largest numbers of Hindus. Outside of India, the countries with the largest Hindu populations in 2010 were Nepal (24.2 million, or 2% of the world’s Hindus) and Bangladesh (12.7 million, or 1% of the world’s Hindus).

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