Detailed Maps Of The World’s Religions
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The world’s religious population account for 83 percent of the global population—the great majority of these fall under 6 largest prevalent religions.
Christianity is the largest religion in the world (32.8% of the global population). Islam is the 2nd-biggest confession after Christianity (22.5% of the world population). Hinduism is the 3rd most widespread religion (13.8% of the world’s population).
The map below shows the primary religious affiliation in each country.
Map of the largest religion in every country
Here is the map that shows the largest religion by national subdivision.
The following map illustrates the percentage of representatives of each religious denomination in each national subdivision.
The world’s 20 largest religions:
- Christianity – 2.4 billion
- Islam – 1.9 billion
- Atheism – 1.1 billion
- Hinduism – 1.1 billion
- Chinese traditional religion – 0.4 billion
- Buddhism – 0.38 billion
- Primal-indigenous – 0.3 billion
- African traditional – 0.1 billion
- Sikhism – 23 million
- Juche – 19 million
- Spiritism – 15 million
- Judaism – 14 million
- Bahai – 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 thousand
The second most widespread religion in the world after Christianity is Islam. Countries where Christianity and Islam don’t make up most of the population are mainly located in Asia (except the atheistic Czech Republic and Estonia).
Nations where Christianity or Islam doesn’t make up the majority of the population
The world map of every nation’s second most extensive religious confession is presented below.
Map of the second-largest religion in every country
Interesting and surprising
Literally 1984 because of how much
Crist is pretty large
hey guys lets talk history
so lets talk about maps
L map
the map is like a toddler it shouldn’t exist
@Quandale if you don’t like it then leave
Allahhu akbar if u don’t like it leave inshaallah Islam will spread across the globe
second-largest religion in Australia Buddhism – I seriously doubt it.
Yeah but if you look at the numbers you see Buddhism makes up only a very tiny percentage even tho it’s the second largest. It’s only takes up a tiny area of the Southeast corner and some in New Zealand.
I am buddhist but I Live in New York
It’s good to see that atheism has grown to being tied for third place worldwide.
Atheism is not a religon!!!
Thank god for that! ?
Only religious people complain about how other people believe or don’t believe and they are the ones that are supposed to “JUDGE NOT” but yet are the most judgmental people on the planet. ?
You guys shouldn’t judge religious people just because they don’t agree with you. Personally, I think religion exists to add a sense of community. Of course, there are lunatics in every corner of the world, and some choose to be religious extremists, but you can’t make such a broad and cherry picked generalization about a group of people. At the end of the day, if a religion convinces people to do good in the world, I’m all for it.
I like thos map because it is informative and helps me with my homework!!! :3
So the beliefs of the millions of Traditional Native Americans still doesn’t count as anything worth mapping? Apparently times haven’t changed as much as we thought.
Anyone else find it interesting that Christianity exsists mostly in the West but not even a speck of it in the middleast where it was supposedly born? Jews don’t believe in Jesus as a Holy Entity so are not considered to be in the Christian Family of Religions. Modern Jews wrote their own Judean Bible much different than the Bible Stories written by their long ago Hebrew ancestors.