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The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Religion. Faith. Theocracy. Buddhism by country. Christianity by country ( Catholic Church by country, Protestantism by country, Eastern Orthodoxy by country and Oriental Orthodoxy by country) Hinduism by country. Islam by country. Judaism by country or Jewish population by country. List of religious populations.
The government estimates the population to be 78,000. There are no official statistics on religious affiliation, but observers estimate that approximately 90 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. Smaller religious groups include Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Anglicans, Seventh-day Adventists, Bahá'ís, and members of the Unification Church.
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [10] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
e. Religion in the United States is widespread and diverse, with the country being far more religious than other wealthy Western nations. [2] An overwhelming majority of Americans believe in a higher power, [3] engage in spiritual practices, [4] and consider themselves religious or spiritual. [5] [6] Christianity is the most widely professed ...
Protestants account for nearly forty percent of Christians worldwide and more than one tenth of the total human population. Various estimates put the percentage of Protestants in relation to the total number of the world's Christians at 33%, [5] 36%, [13] 36.7%, [2] and 40%, [3] while in relation to the world's population at 11.6% [2] and 13%.
A 2013 Harris Poll reported an 8% decline in a belief in God, since a prior 2009 poll. [3] According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the state with the greatest percentage of respondents identifying as "very religious" was Mississippi (59%), and the state with the smallest percentage were Vermont and New Hampshire (23%), while Florida (39%) and ...
Philippines. United States. Italy. The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City at 100%, followed by East Timor at 97%. According to the Census of the 2023 Annuario Pontificio (Pontifical Yearbook), the number of baptized Catholics in the world was about 1.376 billion at the end of ...