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Largest religion by country. A map showing the prevailing religious population by country based on the Pew Research Center's 2010 baseline estimates. [2] By proportion. Christians. Countries and territories with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country, as of 2010: Christian population percentage by country, June 2014.
Apr 5, 2017 · |. April 5, 2017. Christians remain world’s largest religious group, but they are declining in Europe. By. Conrad Hackett and David McClendon. Christians remained the largest religious group in the world in 2015, making up nearly a third (31%) of Earth’s 7.3 billion people, according to a new Pew Research Center demographic analysis.
The most popular religion is Christianity, followed by an estimated 2.38 billion people worldwide. Islam, which is practiced by more than 1.91 billion people, is second. However, population researchers predict that Islam will have nearly caught up to Christianity by 2050.
Jan 26, 2019 · Most Popular Religious Christianity: with 2,116,909,552 members (which includes 1,117,759,185 Roman Catholics, 372,586,395 Protestants, 221,746,920 Orthodox, and 81,865,869 Anglicans). Christians make up almost thirty percent of the global population. The religion arose from Judaism in the first century.
Generally speaking, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism are considered the five major world religions, although Sikhism, Shintoism, or Taoism may also be studied in this...
Dec 18, 2012 · The demographic study – based on analysis of more than 2,500 censuses, surveys and population registers – finds 2.2 billion Christians (32% of the world’s population), 1.6 billion Muslims (23%), 1 billion Hindus (15%), nearly 500 million Buddhists (7%) and 14 million Jews (0.2%) around the world as of 2010.
If current trends continue Christians will remain the largest religious group by 2060 (32 percent of the world's population), but Islam will experience the fastest growth,with an expected increase from 24 percent to 31 percent of the global population over the next four decades.
