List of countries by religion

2010: Religions of the World by State :

Catholic Christianity Orthodox Christianity Protestant Christianity Sunni Islam Shiite Islam Islam (other groups) Hinduism

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Judaism Theravada Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism Vajrayana Buddhism " Natural religions " Other groups or unreliable statistics

The following list of countries by religion sorts the populations of (almost) all states according to their religious proportions. All data comes from the Pew Research Center and is based on national statistics.

In 2010, 31.5% of the world's population are followers of Christianity , making it the largest religious group in the world. 23.2% of all people are Muslim , 15.0% are Hindus , 7.1% are Buddhists and 0.2% are of Jewish faith ; 0.8% are followers of another religion and 5.9% followers of an ethnic religion (for example traditional African religions , Chinese folk beliefs and local religions of indigenous peoples ). A total of 16.3% of the world population does not belong to any religious group.

List of countries by religious composition

The following sortable list contains data for 2010 (source is The Global Religious Landscape report by the Pew Research Center ):

2010: Share of religions in the total population in percent (%)
country	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
global average	31.5%	23.2%	16.3%	15.0%	7.1%	5.9%	0.8%	0.2%
Afghanistan	0.1%	99.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Egypt	5.1%	94.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Albania	17.0%	70.4%	7.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
Algeria	0.2%	97.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Andorra	89.5%	0.8%	8.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
Angola	90.5%	0.2%	5.1%	0.0%	0.0%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%
Antigua and Barbuda	93.0%	0.6%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	3.6%	1.0%	0.0%
Equatorial Guinea	88.7%	4.0%	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%
Argentina	85.2%	1.0%	12.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%
Armenia	98.5%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
Azerbaijan	3.0%	96.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Ethiopia	62.8%	34.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.1%
Australia	67.3%	2.4%	24.2%	1.4%	2.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.5%
Bahamas	96.0%	0.1%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
Bahrain	14.5%	70.3%	1.9%	9.8%	2.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%
Bangladesh	0.2%	89.8%	0.0%	9.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
Barbados	95.2%	1.0%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%
Belgium	64.2%	5.9%	29.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
Belize	87.6%	0.1%	8.9%	0.2%	0.5%	1.5%	0.1%	1.0%
Benin	53.0%	23.8%	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	18.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Bhutan	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	22.6%	74.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
Bolivia	93.9%	0.0%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%
	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.2%	51.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%
Botswana	72.1%	0.4%	20.6%	0.3%	0.0%	6.0%	0.6%	0.0%
Brazil	88.9%	0.0%	7.9%	0.0%	0.1%	2.8%	0.2%	0.0%
Brunei	9.4%	75.1%	0.4%	0.3%	8.6%	6.2%	0.1%	0.0%
Bulgaria	82.1%	3.7%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Burkina Faso	22.5%	61.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	15.4%	0.0%	0.0%
Burundi	91.5%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	5.7%	0.0%	0.0%
Chile	89.4%	0.0%	8.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%
People's Republic of China	5.1%	1.8%	52.2%	0.0%	18.2%	21.9%	0.7%	0.0%
Costa Rica	90.9%	0.0%	7.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
Denmark	83.5%	4.1%	11.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Germany	68.7%	5.8%	24.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
Dominica	94.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	3.0%	1.7%	0.0%
Dominican Republic	88.0%	0.0%	10.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
Djibouti	2.3%	96.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
Ecuador	94.1%	0.0%	5.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
El Salvador	88.2%	0.0%	11.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
Ivory Coast	44.1%	37.5%	8.0%	0.0%	0.0%	10.2%	0.2%	0.0%
Eritrea	62.9%	36.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
Estonia	39.9%	0.2%	59.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
Fiji	64.4%	6.3%	0.8%	27.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
Finland	81.6%	0.8%	17.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
France	63.0%	7.5%	27.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.7%
Gabon	76.5%	11.2%	5.6%	0.0%	0.0%	6.0%	0.7%	0.0%
Gambia	4.5%	95.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
Georgia	88.5%	10.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Ghana	74.9%	15.8%	6.1%	0.1%	0.0%	4.9%	0.2%	0.0%
Grenada	96.6%	0.3%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%
Greece	88.1%	5.3%	6.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Guam	94.2%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	1.1%	1.5%	1.6%	0.0%
Guatemala	95.2%	0.0%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
Guinea	10.9%	84.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%
Guinea-Bissau	19.7%	45.1%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	30.9%	0.0%	0.0%
Guyana	66.0%	6.4%	2.0%	24.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
Haiti	86.9%	0.0%	10.6%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%
Honduras	87.6%	0.1%	10.5%	0.0%	0.1%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%
Hong Kong	14.3%	1.8%	56.1%	0.4%	13.2%	12.8%	1.5%	0.0%
India	2.5%	14.4%	0.0%	79.5%	0.8%	0.5%	2.3%	0.0%
Indonesia	9.9%	87.2%	0.0%	1.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
Iraq	0.9%	99.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Iran	0.2%	99.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
Ireland	92.0%	1.1%	6.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
Iceland	95.0%	0.2%	3.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
Israel	2.0%	18.6%	3.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	75.6%
Italy	83.3%	3.7%	12.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Jamaica	77.2%	0.0%	17.2%	0.0%	0.0%	4.5%	1.0%	0.0%
Japan	1.6%	0.2%	57.0%	0.0%	36.2%	0.4%	4.7%	0.0%
Yemen	0.2%	99.1%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Jordan	2.2%	97.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Cambodia	0.4%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	96.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
Cameroon	70.3%	18.3%	5.3%	0.0%	0.0%	3.3%	2.7%	0.0%
Canada	69.0%	2.1%	23.7%	1.4%	0.8%	1.2%	0.9%	1.0%
	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
Cape Verde	89.1%	0.1%	9.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%
Kazakhstan	24.8%	70.4%	4.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
Qatar	13.8%	67.7%	0.9%	13.8%	3.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
Kenya	84.8%	9.7%	2.5%	0.1%	0.0%	1.7%	1.2%	0.0%
Kyrgyzstan	11.4%	88.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Colombia	92.5%	0.0%	6.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
Comoros	0.5%	98.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Dem. Rep. Congo	95.8%	1.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
Republic of the Congo	85.9%	1.2%	9.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.8%	1.1%	0.0%
North Korea	2.0%	0.0%	71.3%	0.0%	1.5%	12.3%	12.9%	0.0%
South Korea	29.4%	0.2%	46.4%	0.0%	22.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
Kosovo	11.4%	87.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Croatia	93.4%	1.4%	5.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Cuba	59.2%	0.0%	23.0%	0.2%	0.0%	17.4%	0.0%	0.0%
Kuwait	14.3%	74.1%	0.0%	8.5%	2.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
Laos	1.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	66.0%	30.7%	0.7%	0.0%
Lesotho	96.8%	0.0%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Latvia	55.8%	0.1%	43.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
Lebanon	38.3%	61.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Liberia	85.9%	12.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
Libya	2.7%	96.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Liechtenstein	91.6%	5.0%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Lithuania	89.8%	0.0%	10.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Luxembourg	70.4%	2.3%	26.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
Macau	7.2%	0.2%	15.4%	0.0%	17.3%	58.9%	1.0%	0.0%
Madagascar	85.3%	3.0%	6.9%	0.0%	0.0%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%
Malawi	82.7%	13.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
Malaysia	9.4%	63.7%	0.7%	6.0%	17.7%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%
Maldives	0.4%	98.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Mali	3.2%	92.4%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%
	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
Malta	97.0%	0.2%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Morocco	1.1%	98.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Mauritania	0.3%	99.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
Mauritius	25.3%	16.7%	0.6%	56.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
North Macedonia	59.3%	39.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Mexico	95.1%	0.1%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Moldova	97.4%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
Monaco	86.0%	0.4%	11.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	1.7%
Mongolia	2.3%	3.2%	35.9%	0.0%	55.1%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%
Montenegro	78.1%	18.7%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Mozambique	56.7%	18.0%	17.9%	0.0%	0.0%	7.4%	0.0%	0.0%
Myanmar	7.8%	4.0%	0.5%	1.7%	80.1%	5.8%	0.2%	0.0%
Namibia	97.5%	0.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
Nepal	0.5%	4.6%	0.3%	80.7%	10.7%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%
New Zealand	57.0%	1.2%	36.6%	2.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%
Nicaragua	85.8%	0.0%	12.5%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
Netherlands	50.6%	6.0%	42.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
Niger	0.8%	98.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Nigeria	49.3%	48.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
Norway	84.7%	3.7%	10.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
Oman	6.5%	85.9%	0.2%	5.5%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
Austria	80.4%	5.4%	13.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
East Timor	99.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
Pakistan	1.6%	96.4%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Palestine	2.4%	97.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Panama	93.0%	0.7%	4.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%
Papua New Guinea	99.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
Paraguay	96.9%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%
Peru	95.5%	0.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%
Philippines	92.6%	5.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%
	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
Poland	94.3%	0.0%	5.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Portugal	93.8%	0.6%	4.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
Puerto Rico	96.7%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
Rwanda	93.4%	1.8%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
Romania	99.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
Russia	73.3%	10.0%	16.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
Saint Kitts and Nevis	94.6%	0.3%	1.6%	1.5%	0.0%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%
Saint Lucia	91.1%	0.1%	6.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	2.0%	0.0%
St. Vincent and Grenadines	88.7%	1.5%	2.5%	3.4%	0.0%	2.0%	2.0%	0.0%
Solomon Islands	97.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%
Zambia	97.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%
San Marino	91.6%	0.0%	7.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.3%
Sao Tome and Principe	82.2%	0.0%	12.6%	0.0%	0.0%	2.9%	2.4%	0.0%
Saudi Arabia	4.4%	93.0%	0.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
Sweden	67.2%	4.6%	27.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
Switzerland	81.3%	5.5%	11.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
Senegal	3.6%	96.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Serbia	92.5%	4.2%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Seychelles	94.0%	1.1%	2.1%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
Sierra Leone	20.9%	78.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
Zimbabwe	87.0%	0.9%	7.9%	0.0%	0.0%	3.9%	0.3%	0.0%
Singapore	18.2%	14.3%	16.4%	5.2%	33.9%	2.3%	9.7%	0.0%
Slovakia	85.3%	0.2%	14.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Slovenia	78.4%	3.6%	18.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Somalia	0.1%	99.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Spain	78.6%	2.1%	19.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
Sri Lanka	7.3%	9.8%	0.0%	13.6%	69.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
South Africa	81.2%	1.7%	14.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
Sudan	5.4%	90.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%
South Sudan	60.5%	6.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	32.9%	0.0%	0.0%
	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
Suriname	51.6%	15.2%	5.4%	19.8%	0.6%	5.3%	1.8%	0.2%
Swaziland	88.1%	0.2%	10.1%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%
Syria	5.2%	92.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Tajikistan	1.6%	96.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Tanzania	61.4%	35.2%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
Thailand	0.9%	5.5%	0.3%	0.1%	93.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Taiwan	5.5%	0.0%	12.7%	0.0%	21.3%	44.2%	16.2%	0.0%
Togo	43.7%	14.0%	6.2%	0.0%	0.0%	35.6%	0.6%	0.0%
Trinidad and Tobago	65.9%	5.9%	1.9%	22.7%	0.3%	1.9%	1.4%	0.0%
Chad	40.6%	55.3%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
Czech Republic	23.5%	0.0%	76.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Tunisia	0.2%	99.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Turkey	0.4%	98.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
Turkmenistan	6.4%	93.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Uganda	86.7%	11.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
Ukraine	83.8%	1.2%	14.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
Hungary	81.0%	0.0%	18.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
Uruguay	57.9%	0.0%	40.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%
Uzbekistan	2.3%	96.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Vanuatu	93.3%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	4.1%	1.4%	0.0%
Vatican city	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Venezuela	89.3%	0.3%	10.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
United Arab Emirates	12.6%	76.9%	1.1%	6.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
United States	78.3%	0.9%	16.4%	0.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.6%	1.8%
United Kingdom	71.1%	4.4%	21.3%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.5%
Vietnam	8.2%	0.2%	29.6%	0.0%	16.4%	45.3%	0.4%	0.0%
Belarus	71.2%	0.2%	28.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
Western Sahara	0.2%	99.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Central African Republic	89.5%	8.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Cyprus	73.2%	25.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
global average	31.5%	23.2%	16.3%	15.0%	7.1%	5.9%	0.8%	0.2%
country	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
2010: Share of religions in the total population in percent (%)

World regions according to religious composition

The following list compares the proportions (%) of religions in the respective total population in 2010 (from the report The Global Religious Landscape by the Pew Research Center):

area	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	ethnic religions	other	Jews
Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole	62.9%	30.2%	3.2%	0.2%	0.0%	3.3%	0.2%	0.0%
Central Africa	85.4%	9.0%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%
East Africa	71.3%	22.0%	2.8%	0.3%	0.0%	3.4%	0.2%	0.0%
Southern Africa	82.3%	1.5%	14.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
West Africa	40.7%	53.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	4.2%	0.1%	0.0%
Asia Pacific as a whole	7.1%	24.3%	21.2%	25.3%	11.9%	9.0%	1.3%	0.0%
East asia	5.6%	1.6%	52.1%	0.0%	19.6%	19.7%	1.4%	0.0%
Oceania	69.6%	1.9%	23.1%	1.3%	2.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%
South asia	2.2%	30.1%	0.1%	63.7%	1.8%	0.5%	1.8%	0.0%
South East Asia	21.3%	40.4%	4.7%	1.2%	24.2%	8.0%	0.2%	0.0%
Western Asia	2.4%	96.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
Central Asia	9.3%	88.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
Europe as a whole	75.2%	5.9%	18.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
Central Europe	74.6%	3.5%	21.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
Scandinavia	77.5%	3.5%	18.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
Southern Europe	82.5%	2.8%	14.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
Southeast Europe	83.2%	14.3%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Western Europe	65.9%	5.8%	26.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%
Eastern Europe	75.9%	7.6%	16.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
Caribbean and Latin America as a whole	90.0%	0.1%	7.7%	0.1%	0.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%
Caribbean	79.7%	0.2%	12.9%	0.8%	0.1%	6.0%	0.3%	0.0%
Mexico and Central America	93.9%	0.0%	5.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
South America	89.6%	0.2%	8.0%	0.1%	0.1%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%
North America as a whole	77.4%	1.0%	17.1%	0.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.6%	1.8%
Middle East and North Africa as a whole	3.8%	93.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	1.6%
middle East	4.6%	88.9%	0.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	4.0%
North africa	3.1%	95.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Religious populations by number

Countries sorted by their number of followers from a certain world region. The source is the Pew Research Center, which maintains a database for all countries, or the respective national statistics.

Christians

Spread of Christianity

Number of Christians by country (as of 2011):

Country	Believers
United States	229.157.250
Brazil	169.213.130
Russia	114.198.444
Mexico	106.204.560
Nigeria	080,510,000
Philippines	078,790,000
People's Republic of China	067,070,000
Democratic Republic of Congo	063,150,000
Italy	051,550,000
Ethiopia	051,477,950
Germany	050.752.580
Colombia	044,500,000
Ukraine	041,973,000
South Africa	040,243,000
France	039,560,000
Spain	038,568,000
United Kingdom	037,584,000
Poland	036,526,000
Kenya	033,625,790
Argentina	033.497.100
Uganda	029,943,000
India	028,436,000
Venezuela	028,340,790
Peru	027.365.100
Indonesia	024,123,000

Muslims

Spread of Islam

Number of Muslims by country (as of 2013):

Country	Believers
Indonesia	206.986.560
Pakistan	180.608.292
India	172,000,000
Bangladesh	132,937,800
Nigeria	080,000,000
Iran	073.238.340
Egypt	070,056,000
Turkey	070,036,838
Algeria	036.092.810
Morocco	031,351,800
Afghanistan	030.112.680
Sudan	030.064.180
Iraq	029,767,300
Ethiopia	028.120.050
Saudi Arabia	026,624,560
Uzbekistan	025,628,240
Yemen	023,836,523
People's Republic of China	020,095,870
Syria	019,601,750
Malaysia	017,085,402

Buddhists

Spread of Buddhism

Number of Buddhists by country (as of 2010):

Country	Believers
People's Republic of China	244,130,000
Thailand	064,420,000
Japan	045,820,000
Myanmar	038,410,000
South Korea	010,500,000
India	009,250,000
Malaysia	005,010,000
Sri Lanka	004,450,000
Vietnam	004,380,000
Cambodia	003,690,000

Hindus

Spread of Hinduism

Number of Hindus by country (as of 2010):

Country	Believers
India	957.636.314
Nepal	021,354,570
Bangladesh	014.274.430
Indonesia	004,012,470
Pakistan	002,603,895
Sri Lanka	002,554,606
Malaysia	001,700,100
United States	001,543,730
United Arab Emirates	001,239,610
South Africa	000.749.870
Mauritius	000.665.820
United Kingdom	000.630,000
Canada	000.497.960
Tanzania	000.403,570
Kuwait	000.328,440
Australia	000.275,500
Singapore	000.264,370
Fiji	000.261.097
Trinidad and Tobago	000.240,100
Myanmar	000.203,000

Jews

Spread of the Jewish religion

Number of Jewish believers by country (as of 2010):

Country	Believers
United States	6,588,065
Israel	5,907,500
France	0.493,600
United Kingdom	0.387,000
Canada	0.375,000
Russia	0.194,000
Argentina	0.181,800
Germany	0.119,000
Australia	0.097,300
Brazil	0.095,300

Development of the world religions in the future

In 2017, the Pew Research Center made a forecast of the development of the number of followers of the world religions up to 2060.

• Islam is therefore the fastest growing world religion and will increase its share from 24.1% of the world population in 2015 to an expected 31.1% in 2060. Islam would then have almost as many followers as Christianity, which will keep its share of the world population stable from 31.2% to 31.8%.
• On the other hand, the proportion of Buddhists, those with no religion and those who follow another religion will decrease significantly (those with no religion from 16.0% to 12.5%, Buddhists from 6.9% to 4.8%, others from 6.5% to 5 , 2%).
• Hindus and Jews will keep their share of the world population roughly constant (Hindus from 15.1 to 14.5%, Jews from 0.2% to 0.2%). The reason for the change in the worldwide religious composition is the strongly differing birth rates and the low exit rate of followers of Islam compared to those of Christianity and Buddhism. In absolute terms, every group will grow except for Buddhists.

Percentage of religions in the total world population:

year	Christians	Muslims	without religion	Hindus	Buddhists	Jews	other
2015	31.2%	24.1%	16.0%	15.1%	6.9%	0.2%	6.5%
2020	31.1%	24.9%	15.6%	15.2%	6.6%	0.2%	6.4%
2030	31.0%	26.5%	14.8%	15.2%	6.1%	0.2%	6.2%
2040	31.1%	28.1%	14.0%	15.1%	5.7%	0.2%	5.8%
2050	31.1%	29.7%	13.2%	14.9%	5.2%	0.2%	5.7%
2060	31.8%	31.1%	12.5%	14.5%	4.8%	0.2%	5.2%

Total number of believers of the religions in the world population:

Religious group	2015	2060	growth
Christians	2,276,250,000	3,054,460,000	▲0. +778.210.000
Muslims	1,752,620,000	2,987,390,000	▲ +1,234,770,000
without religion	1,165,020,000	1,202,300,000	▲0.0 +37,280,000
Hindus	1,099,110,000	1,391,900,000	▲.0 +293,790,000
Buddhists	499,380,000	461,980,000	▼000 -37,400,000
Jews	14,270,000	16,370,000	▲0.00 +2,100,000
other	477,990,000	500,360,000	▲0.0 +22,380,000
total	7,284,640,000	9,615,760,000	▲ +2,331,120,000

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Pew-Templeton: Global Religious Futures Project. Retrieved August 19, 2017 . 
3. ^ Pew Research Center : "Nones" on the Rise. Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project, October 9, 2012, accessed February 14, 2015 . 
4. ^ Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics
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6. ^ RR: Religious diversity is increasing in Mexico . Retrieved February 14, 2015.
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8. ↑ https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/208472.pdf
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10. ↑ Overview: The 8 Major National Ethnic Races in Myanmar. (Archived from the original on December 20, 2007) In: Myanmar.gov.mm. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
11. ^ Jewish Population in the United States, by State - Jewish Virtual Library . Retrieved February 14, 2015.
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