List of religious populations

List of religious populations

These are lists of religious demographics and religions by country.

Major denominations and religions of the world
Importance of religion
Percentage of people who are not religious


World Religions
Four largest religions Adherents Percentage of world population Further information
World population 6.8 billion [1][2] Figure used by individual articles
Christianity 1.9 billion - 2.1 billion [3] 29% - 32% Christianity by country
Islam 1.5 billion [4] 19% - 23% Islam by country
Buddhism 500 million - 1.5 billion [5][6][7][8] 7% - 23% Buddhism by country
Hinduism 900 million - 1 billion [9][10] 14% Hinduism by country
Total 4.65 billion - 6 billion 68% - 90%
An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing "Christians, Buddhists, Hindoos, Mohammedans, Fetichists".
Christianity - Percentage by country
Islam - Percentage by country
Buddhism - Percentage by country
Hinduism - Percentage by country

The table above is compiled from the relevant Wikipedia pages listing Religions by Country. Please note that although figures are an approximation there are many sources. Please see individual pages (Linked in Table) for details.

The numbers of adherents to organised religions in the world is difficult to accurately ascertain. Therefore figures and estimates are included from multiple sources to show the reader the problem in compiling such statistics.

Contents

Adherents.com estimates

Adherents.com says "Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number."[1]

Religion Adherents
Christianity 2.1 billion
Islam 1.5 billion
Nonreligious/agnostic/atheism 1.1 billion
Hinduism 900 million
Chinese traditional religion 394 million
Buddhism 376 million
Animist religions 300 million
African traditional/diasporic religions 100 million
Sikhism 23 million
Juche 19 million
Spiritism 15 million
Judaism 14 million
Baha'i 7 million
Jainism 4.2 million
Shinto 4 million
Cao Dai 4 million
Zoroastrianism 2.6 million
Tenrikyo 2 million
Neo-Paganism 1 million
Unitarian Universalism 800,000
Rastafari Movement 600,000
Notes
  • These figures may incorporate populations of secular/nominal adherents as well as syncretist worshipers, although the concept of syncretism is disputed by some.
  • Nonreligious includes agnostic, atheist, secular humanist, and people answering 'none' or no religious preference. Half of this group is theistic but nonreligious. [2]
  • For Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto or animism etc., people often have religions which are a mix of belief systems. This leads to the unusually large uncertainty in the calculations for Buddhism. The lower number of approximately 400 million represents traditional Buddhists (have taken refuge in the Three Jewels, those following all of the precepts of Buddhisim laid down by the Buddha,) whereas the larger number of 1.5 billion includes "natural Buddhists" (as well as secular/nominal Buddhists), lacking specific ceremony, as long as they do not profess belief in another religion. Main article: Buddhism by country.[3][4]
  • It is hard to accurately report the actual number of adherents of Judaism as there are Jews that do not practice the religion that may be under the secular/irreligious category even though they are fully Jewish.
  • Chinese traditional religion is described as "the common religion of the majority Chinese culture: a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, as well as the traditional non-scriptural/local practices and beliefs."

ReligionFacts estimates

Religions or worldviews with a million or more adherents.[5]

To verify data within this chart, please check the above reference

Religion Population Religious text Type Holiest place Founded Afterlife
Christianity 2 billion Bible Abrahamic Jerusalem/Rome (Catholicism only) Levant, 1st century AD Eternal hell, heaven and temporal purgatory (Catholicism only)
Islam 1.5 billion Quran Abrahamic Mecca Mecca around 610 Eternal heaven, hell
Atheism 1.1 billion none N/A none N/A N/A
Hinduism 900 million Vedas Indian religions Varanasi Around 1700–1100 BCE, North India Reincarnation until moksha
Chinese folk religion 394 million Taoic
Buddhism 360 million Tripiṭaka Indian religions Bodh Gaya, 5th century BCE, India Reincarnation until nirvana
Sikhism 23 million Guru Granth Sahib Indian religions Amritsar, Around 1490, Punjab, North India Reincarnation until union with Waheguru or God.
Taoism 20 million Tao Te Ching Taoic Around 500 BCE, China
Judaism 14 million Tanakh Abrahamic Jerusalem Around 1500 BCE Symbolic Heaven and Gehenna
Spiritism 11 million none New religious movement 1850s
Falun Gong 10 million Zhuan Falun, writings by Master Li Taoic 1992, China Not addressed
Bahá'í 5-7 million Aqdas Abrahamic Acre Iran , in 1844 Symbolic heaven and hell
Cao Dai 4-6 million Caodai canon Taoic Tay Ninh Vietnam
Confucianism 4-6 million Analects Taoic Qufu China 551–478 BC Not addressed
New Age 5 million N/A New religious movement none 19th century karma
Jainism 4.2 million Mahavira Indian religions Palitana Pre-historic to 5th century BCE, India Reincarnation until liberation
Shinto 3-4 million Kojiki etc. Taoic Ise, Mie N/A varies
Wicca 1-3 million none New religious movement none 1920s varies
Aladura 1 million none New religious movement Lagos Nigeria in 1918 varies
Rastafari 1 million Kebra Nagast New religious movement Ethiopia Jamaica in 1920s immortality
Unitarian Universalism 800,000 varies New religious movement none United States in 1961 varies
Deism Unknown none N/A none Ancient history not addressed

By proportion

Christians

Countries with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country (as of 2008):

  1.  Vatican City 100% (100% Roman Catholic)
  2.  Federated States of Micronesia ~100%[6]
  3.  Samoa ~100%[7]
  4.  Panama ~ 100%[8]
  5.  Romania 99%[9]
  6.  East Timor 99%[10][11] (90% Roman Catholic)
  7.  Bolivia 98.1%[12][13] (95% Roman Catholic)
  8.  Venezuela 98%[14] (mostly Roman Catholic)
  9.  Marshall Islands 97.2%[15]
  10.  Peru 97.1%[16]
  11.  Paraguay 96.9%[17] (mostly Roman Catholic)
  12.  Papua New Guinea 96.4%[18]
  13.  Kiribati 96%[19]
  14.  Angola +95%[20]
  15.  Barbados +95%[21]
  16.  Cyprus 95%[22](mostly Greek Orthodox)
  17.  Mexico 95%[23] (mostly Roman Catholic)
  18.  Malta 95%[24]
  19.  Colombia 93.5%[25] (mostly Roman Catholic)
  20.  Guatemala +90%[26][27] (50-60% Roman Catholic and ~30% Protestant, 0-10% non-Christian)
  21.  Philippines +90% (Roman Catholic)

Muslims

Countries with the greatest proportion of Muslims from Islam by country (as of 2008):

  1.  Saudi Arabia 100% (90% Sunni, 10% Shi'a)
  2.  Afghanistan 99.9% (85% Sunni, 14% Shi'a)
  3.  Yemen 99.9% (65-70% Sunni, 30-35% Shi'a)
  4.  Mauritania 99.9% (mostly Sunni)
  5.  Somalia 99.9% (mostly Sunni)
  6.  Maldives 99.33% (mostly Sunni)
  7.  Oman 99% (mostly Ibadhi)[28]
  8.  Djibouti +99% (mostly Sunni)[29]
  9.  Tunisia 99% (mostly Sunni)
  10.  Algeria 99% (mostly Sunni)
  11.  Turkey 99% (85% Sunni, 15% Shia)
  12.  Bahrain 98% (mostly Shia) [30]
  13.  Comoros 98% (mostly Sunni)[31]
  14.  Morocco 98.7% (mostly Sunni)
  15.  Niger +98% (95% Sunni and Sufi)[32]
  16.  Iran 98% (mostly Shi'a)
  17.  Pakistan 97%[33] (75-80% Sunni, 20-25% Shi'a)[34]
  18.  Iraq 97% (55% Shi'a, 45% Sunni)
  19.  Libya 99% (Sunni)
  20.  Azerbaijan 96%[35] (mostly Shia)
  21.  Lebanon 59.7%[36] (Shia'a 35%, Sunni 25%, Druze 5%)

Remarks: Although Islam is the state religion of most Middle Eastern countries,this list excludes Saudi Arabia where 100% of national citizens are Muslims,[37] because there is a substantial number of non-Muslim residents there (mostly Hindu and Christian; as well as Buddhist, Sikh and Jewish minorities). So the total Muslim population in Saudi Arabia is around 25 million (20 million native Saudi citizens with 1.5 million Bangladeshis, 1 million Pakistanis, 1 million Egyptians, 600,000 Indonesians, 250,000 Palestinians, and significant Muslim numbers among 1.6 million Indians, 150,000 Lebanese, as well as 100,000 Eritreans) or only about 90% of the total population.[38] Some other Persian Gulf countries such as Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates are also excluded due to their large number of non-Muslim foreign immigrants.

Buddhists

Countries with the greatest proportion of Buddhists (included other folk religions) from Buddhism by country (as of 2008):

  1.  Cambodia 96%[39] (Theravada, Muslim 3%, Christian and other 2%)
  2.  Thailand 94.6%[40] (Theravada, Muslim 4%, Christian 0.7%, other 0.3%)
  3.  Mongolia 90%[41] (Tibetan Buddhism, Muslim 5%, Christian and other 5%)
  4.  Hong Kong Triple religion 90% (10% practising[42])[43] ("Triple religion", Christian and others 7%)
  5.  Myanmar 89% (Theravada, Christian 4%, Muslim 4%, Animism or other 2%) [44]
  6.  Vietnam 85% (15% practicing)("Triple religion", Christian 7%, Cao Dai 3%, other 3%)
  7.  Macau 85%[45] ("Triple religion", Christian 6%, Atheist or other 3%)
  8.  Laos 67%-98% [46][47][verification needed] (67% Theravada with 31% traditional animist.)
  9.  People's Republic of China 50-+80%[48][49][50] (8% practicing[51]) (Triple religion, Atheist 10.5%, Christian 4%, Muslim 1.5%)
  10.  Bhutan +66-75%[52] (Lamaistic, Hindu 25%)
  11.  Christmas Island 75% (Triple religion, Christian 12%, Muslim 10%, other 3%)
  12.  Sri Lanka 70% (Theraveda, Hindu 15%, Christian 7.5%, Muslim 7.5%)
  13.  Republic of China (Taiwan) 35.1-75%[53][54] ("Triple religion", Christian 4%, other 2%)
  14.  Singapore 33-44%[55] ("Triple religion" 33% Buddhist, 11% Taoist)
  15.  Japan 20-45%(Shinto with Mahayana) (20% to 45% believe in Buddha)
  16.  Malaysia 23% (Muslim 60.3%, "Triple religion", Christian 9%, Hindu 6%, other 1.7%)
  17.  South Korea 22.8%[56][57](Mahayana with Confucianist, Christian 29%, other)
  18.  Brunei 15% (Muslim 67%, "Triple religion", Christian 10%, other 8%)
  19.  Nepal 11.4% (Hindu 80.6%, Tibetian Buddhist, Muslim 4%, other 4%)

Remarks: "Triple religion" (or "Chinese-Mahayana Buddhism" or "Far East Asian Buddhism") is the mixture of Mahayana Buddhism, with Taoism and Confucianism. Because officially Communist governments that often forcibly suppressed religious expressions still rule a number of traditionally Buddhist countries, and because Buddhists often practice other traditional East Asian religions, the figures could be much higher in these regions. Mahayana Buddhism in Far East Asian countries has a very wide meaning. That is why in such countries as China, Japan, Vietnam, North and South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are often all considered at once. This is referred to as a "Triple religion", with Gautama Buddha in the center, Laozi in the left, and Confucius in the right. In some regions, such as Japan, belief systems vary with differing emphasis on Shintoism, as well as Ancestor Worship. As such, the Buddhist population is difficult to gauge exactly, but is often nominal. The lesser percentage given is a number of Buddhists who have taken the formal step of going for refuge. And the wider percentage given are informal/nominal adherents of combined Buddhism with its related religions.[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] See Buddhism by country and Irreligion.

Hindus

Countries with the greatest proportion of Hindus from Hinduism by country (as of 2008):

  1.  Nepal 86.5%[66]
  2.  India 80.5%[67]
  3.  Mauritius 54%[68]
  4.  Guyana 28%[69]
  5.  Fiji 27.9%[70]
  6.  Bhutan 25%[52]
  7.  Trinidad and Tobago 22.5%
  8.  Suriname 20%[71]
  9.  Sri Lanka 15%[72]
  10.  Bangladesh 9.2%[73]
  11.  Qatar 7.2%
  12.  Réunion 6.7%
  13.  Malaysia 6.3%[74]
  14.  Bahrain 6.25%
  15.  Kuwait 6%
  16.  United Arab Emirates 5%
  17.  Singapore 4%
  18.  Oman 3%
  19.  Belize 2.3%
  20.  Seychelles 2.1%[75]

Ethnic / Indigenous

All of the below come from the U.S Department of State 2009 International Religious Freedom Report, [11] based on the highest estimate of people identified as indigenous or followers of indigenous religions that have been well-defined. Due to the syncretic nature of these religions, the following numbers may not reflect the actual number of practitioners.

  1.  Cuba 100%[76]
  2.  Bolivia 55%[77]
  3.  Laos 55%[78]
  4.  Haiti 50%[79]
  5.  Guinea-Bissau 50%
  6.  Cameroon 40%
  7.  Togo 33%[80]
  8.  Côte d'Ivoire 25%
  9.  Sudan 25%[81]
  10.  Benin 23%
  11.  Burundi 20%
  12.  India 100%[82]
  13.  Philippines 16%[83]
  14.  Burkina Faso 15%
  15.  New Zealand 15%[84]
  16.  South Africa 15%[85]
  17.  Democratic Republic of the Congo 12%
  18.  Central African Republic 10%
  19.  Gabon 10%
  20.  Lesotho 10%
  21.  Nigeria 10%
  22.  Sierra Leone 10%[86]
  23.  Indonesia 9%[87]
  24.  Kenya 9%
  25.  Palau 9%[88]
  26.  Ghana 8.5%
  27.  Guinea 5%

Jews

Countries with the greatest proportion of Jews (as of 2007):

  1.  Israel 76.2%
  2.  Palestinian territories 11.09%
  3.  Monaco 3%
  4.  United States 2.5%
  5.  Gibraltar 2.1%
  6.  Cayman Islands 1.71%[citation needed]
  7.  Netherlands Antilles^ 1.3%
  8.  Canada 1.1%
  9.  France 1%
  10.  Belarus 1%
  11.  Argentina 0.8%
  12.  Hungary 0.8%
  13.  Uruguay 0.75%
  14.  Russia 0.5%
  15.  United Kingdom 0.5%
  16.  Australia 0.45%
  17.  Netherlands 0.3%
  18.  Germany 0.25%
  19.  Georgia 0.22%

^: As of 2010, no longer exists as a country.

Bahá'ís

Countries with the greatest proportion of Bahá'ís (as of 2000):

  1.  Nauru 9.22%
  2.  Tonga 6.09%
  3.  Tuvalu 5.86%
  4.  Kiribati 4.70%
  5.  Tokelau 4.33%
  6.  Cocos (Keeling) Islands 3.72%
  7.  Bolivia 3.25%
  8.  Falkland Islands 2.98%
  9.  Vanuatu 2.78%
  10.  Belize 2.73%
  11.  Samoa 2.37%
  12.  Guyana 2.09%
  13.  United Arab Emirates 1.95%
  14.  São Tomé and Príncipe 1.88%
  15.  Mauritius 1.84%
  16.  Zambia 1.70%
  17.  Dominica 1.61%
  18.  Federated States of Micronesia 1.61%
  19.  Niue 1.53%
  20.  Marshall Islands 1.50%

Sources: Year 2000 Estimated Baha'i statistics from: David Barrett, World Christian Encyclopedia, 2000; Total population statistics, mid-2000 from Population Reference Bureau [12] and The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004.

Irreligious & Atheist

See also: Irreligion by country

Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion (including Agnostics and Atheists) from Irreligion by country (as of 2007):

  1.  Japan 64–88% (76%)[89]
  2.  Sweden 46-85% (65.5%)
  3.  Denmark 43-80% (61.5%)
  4.  Macau 60.9%[51]
  5.  Czech Republic 54–61% (57.5%)
  6.  Hong Kong 57%[42]
  7.  France 43-64%[90] (53.5%)
  8.  Norway 31–72% (51.5%)
  9.  Estonia 49%
  10.  Netherlands 39-55% (47%)
  11.  Finland 28–60% (44%)
  12.  United Kingdom 31–52% (41.5%)[90]
  13.  South Korea 30-52% (41%)
  14.  Germany 25[91]-55%[92] (40%)
  15.  Hungary 32-46% (39%)
  16.  Belgium 42-43% (38.75%)
  17.  New Zealand 34.7%[93]
  18.  Bulgaria 34-40% (37%)
  19.  Slovenia 35-38% (36.5%)
  20.  Russia [94] 13–48% (30.5%)

Remarks: Ranked by mean estimate which is in brackets. High irreligious estimates for China and North Korea are very likely highly exaggerated.[89]

Sikhism

Countries with the greatest proportion of Sikhs:

  1.  India 2.3%
  2.  United Kingdom 1.2%[95][96]
  3.  Canada 0.9%[97]
  4.  Malaysia 0.5%[98]
  5.  Fiji 0.3%[99]
  6.  Singapore 0.3%[100][101]
  7.  United States 0.2%[102][103]
  8.  New Zealand 0.2%[104]
  9.  Australia 0.1%[105][106]
  10.  Italy 0.1%[107]

The Sikh homeland is the Punjab state, in India, where today Sikhs make up approximately 59% of the population. This is the only place where Sikhs are in the majority. Sikhs have emigrated to countries all over the world - especially to English-speaking and East Asian nations. In doing so they have retained, to an unusually high degree, their distinctive cultural and religious identity. Sikhs are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. But they can be found in many international cities and have become an especially strong religious presence in the United Kingdom and Canada.[108]

Taoists/Confucianists/Chinese traditional religionists

As a spiritual practice, Taoism has made fewer inroads in the West than Buddhism and Hinduism. Despite the popularity of its great classics the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching, the specific practices of Taoism have not been promulgated in America with much success;[109] these religions are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. Nonetheless, Taoist ideas and symbols such as Taijitu have become popular throughout the world through Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, and various martial arts.[110]

  1.  Republic of China (Taiwan) 33-80%[111]
  2.  People's Republic of China 30%[112]
  3.  Hong Kong 28%[42]
  4.  Macau 13.9%[51]
  5.  Singapore 8.5%[113]
  6.  Malaysia 2.6%[74]
  7.  South Korea 0.2-1%[114]
  8.  Vietnam
  9.  Mauritius

The Chinese traditional religion has 184,000 believers in Latin America, 250,000 believers in Europe, and 839,000 believers in North America as of 1998.[115][116]

Jainism

  1.  India 0.5%
  2.  Suriname 0.3%
  3.  Fiji 0.2%
  4.  Kenya 0.2%
  5.  Réunion 0.1%

"Most Jainist Nations (2005)". QuickLists > Compare Nations > Religions >. The Association of Religion Data Archives. 2005. http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_45.asp. Retrieved 2010-07-23. 

Mormonism

The Deseret Morning News LDS Church Almanac gives information on historical membership records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church's reported membership was roughly 13,824,000 at the start of 2010. (go to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints page) Contents 1 Growth and demographic history 2 LDS Church membership numbers 3 Table for recent growth 4 Table for LDS Church membership numbers 5 See also 6 References


Spiritism

  1.  Cuba 10.30%
  2.  Jamaica 10.2%
  3.  Brazil 4.8%
  4.  Suriname 3.6%
  5.  Haiti 2.7%
  6.  Dominican Republic 2.2%
  7.  The Bahamas 1.9%
  8.  Nicaragua 1.5%
  9.  Trinidad and Tobago 1.4%
  10.  Guyana 1.3%
  11.  Venezuela 1.1%
  12.  Colombia 1.0%
  13.  Belize 1.0%
  14.  Honduras 0.9%
  15.  Puerto Rico 0.7%
  16.  Panama 0.5%
  17.  Iceland 0.5%
  18.  Guadeloupe 0.4%
  19.  Argentina 0.2%
  20.  Guatemala 0.2%

Source: http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_50.asp

Note that all these estimates come from a a single source. However, that one source could at least point us out to the countries that have a decent community of Spiritists

By population

Christians

Largest Christian populations (as of 2007):

  1.  United States 234,889,159
  2.  Brazil 176,356,100[117]
  3.  Mexico 105,265,846
  4.  Russia 102,600,000[94]
  5.  Philippines 91,121,400[83]
  6.  Nigeria 72,068,098
  7.  Congo DR 59,176,360
  8.  Germany 56,957,500[91]
  9.  Italy 51,852,284[118]
  10.  Ethiopia 47,131,322
  11.  United Kingdom 43,515,786
  12.  Ukraine 42,572,167
  13.  Colombia 41,938,720
  14.  Spain 36,697,000[119]
  15.  Argentina 37,883,811
  16.  Poland 36,977,511
  17.  South Africa 35,066,269
  18.  Kenya 28,792,702
  19.  France 19,089,090-32,496,275
  20.  People's Republic of China 21,000,000-30,000,000

Muslims

Largest Muslim populations (as of 2007):

  1.  Indonesia 202,867,000[120]
  2.  Pakistan 174,082,000[120]
  3.  India 169,745,000[120]
  4.  Bangladesh 145,312,000[120]
  5.  Egypt 78,513,000[120]
  6.  Nigeria 78,056,000[120]
  7.  Iran 73,777,000[120]
  8.  Turkey 73,619,000[120]
  9.  Algeria 34,199,000[120]
  10.  Afghanistan 32,172,000[120]
  11.  Morocco 31,993,000[120]
  12.  Iraq 30,428,000[120]
  13.  Sudan 30,121,000[120]
  14.  Ethiopia 28,063,000[120]
  15.  Uzbekistan 26,469,000[120]
  16.  Saudi Arabia 24,949,000[120]
  17.  Yemen 23,363,000[120]
  18.  People's Republic of China 21,667,000[120]
  19.  Syria 20,196,000[120]
  20.  Malaysia 16,581,000[120]

Buddhists

Largest Buddhist populations (as of 2007):

  1.  Sri Lanka 14,648,421
  2.  Thailand 61,814,742
  3.  Vietnam 48,473,003
  4.  Myanmar 42,636,562
  5.  Japan 25,486,699
  6.  Republic of China (Taiwan) 8,000,605 - 21,258,751
  7.  India 16,947,992
  8.  North Korea 466,035 - 15,029,613
  9. Template:Country data Republic Of China 14,644,997
  10.  Cambodia 13,296,109
  11.  South Korea 10,427,436
  12.  United States 2,107,980 - 10,000,000[121]
  13.  Laos 4,369,739 - 6,391,558
  14.  Malaysia 5,460,683
  15.  Nepal 3,179,197
  16.  Singapore 1,935,029 - 2,781,888
  17.  Indonesia 2,346,940
  18.  Mongolia 2,774,679
  19.  Hong Kong 705,022 - 1,960,000
  20.  Philippines 176,932

Hindus

Largest Hindu populations (as of 2007):

  1.  India 800,546,679
  2.  Nepal 25,010,450
  3.  Bangladesh 15,797,076
  4.  Indonesia 4,693,880
  5.  Pakistan 3,153,787
  6.  Sri Lanka 3,138,947
  7.  Malaysia 1,563,741
  8.  United States 1,204,560
  9.  United Arab Emirates 944,352
  10.  Mauritius 625,441
  11.  United Kingdom 607,762
  12.  South Africa 549,973
  13.  Kenya 369,137
  14.  Tanzania 354,458
  15.  Canada 333,901
  16.  Fiji 303,163
  17.  Kuwait 300,667
  18.  Guyana 253,801
  19.  Trinidad and Tobago 237,737
  20.  Singapore 262,120

Jews

Largest Jewish populations (as of 2007):

  1.  United States 6,214,247
  2.  Israel 5,278,274
  3.  France 641,000[122]
  4.  Canada 360,283
  5.  United Kingdom 306,876
  6.  Russia 250,000[94]
  7.  Germany 200,977
  8.  Argentina 184,538
  9.  Ukraine 149,602
  10.  Italy 125,000
  11.  Australia 94,978
  12.  Brazil 93,290
  13.  South Africa 88,994
  14.  Belarus 67,823
  15.  Hungary 60,180
  16.  Mexico 54,350
  17.  Spain 54,073
  18.  Belgium 52,285
  19.  Netherlands 32,780
  20.  Uruguay 30,060

Bahá'ís

Largest Bahá'í populations (as of 2005):[123]

  1.  India 1,823,631
  2.  United States 456,767
  3.  Kenya 368,095
  4.  Congo DR 252,159
  5.  Philippines 247,499
  6.  Zambia 224,763
  7.  South Africa 213,651
  8.  Iran 212,272
  9.  Bolivia 206,029
  10.  Tanzania 163,772
  11.  Venezuela 155,907
  12.  Chad 84,276
  13.  Pakistan 79,461
  14.  Myanmar 78,967
  15.  Uganda 78,541
  16.  Malaysia 71,203
  17.  Colombia 68,441
  18.  Thailand 58,208
  19.  UAE 51,744

"Most Baha'i Nations (2005)". QuickLists > Compare Nations > Religions >. The Association of Religion Data Archives. 2005. http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_40c.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-04. 

Jainism

  1.  India 5,146,696
  2.  United States 79,459
  3.  Kenya 68,848
  4.  United Kingdom 16,869
  5.  Canada 12,101
  6.  Tanzania 9,002
  7.  Nepal 6,800
  8.  Uganda 2,663
  9.  Burma 2,398
  10.  Malaysia 2,052
  11.  South Africa 1,918
  12.  Fiji 1,573
  13.  Japan 1,535
  14.  Australia 1,449
  15.  Suriname 1,217
  16.  Réunion 981
  17.  Belgium 815
  18.  Yemen 229

"Most Jainist Nations (2005)". QuickLists > Compare Nations > Religions >. The Association of Religion Data Archives. 2005. http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_45c.asp. Retrieved 2010-07-23. 

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See also

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