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 Religious demographics a map of major denominations and religions according to the pew research center's 2010 study the future of world religions This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2020 according to a 2025 pew research center report [1] the article religious information by country gives information from the world factbook of the cia and the u.s According to 2015 figures, christians form the biggest religious group by some margin, with 2.3 billion adherents or 31.2% of the total world population of 7.3 billion. Religions that cannot be classed as either world religions or traditional folk religions, and are usually recent in their inception
According to world population review, there were 2.38 billion christians around the world in 2021 [240] according to a 2012 pew research center survey, if current trends continue, christianity will remain the world's largest religion by year 2050 According to a 2015 pew research center study, christianity is estimated to reach 3 billion adherents out of a projected population of 9.3 billion. [23][24][25] islam is the dominant religion in the maldives, afghanistan, pakistan, and bangladesh The 2010 un world population prospects estimates the population at 889,000, of which 94% is sunni muslim
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