Religion Followers Summary

Religion Adherents

Religion Followers Summary

Here is a summary list of religion followers, listed by continent.
The religions are ordered by number of adherents.
The world's five "major" religions are highlighted.

Religion Summary - Number of Followers (by millions of adherents - 2004 data)
	Adherent Name	World	Africa	Asia	Europe	Latin America	North America	Oceania	Religious Sects
1	Christian	2,107	402	341	554	510	274	26	Christianity
1	Catholic Protestant Independent Orthodox Anglican	1,106 370 417 218 79	143 115 88 38 43	122 57 177 13 1	277 71 24 159 26	477 54 45 <1 1	79 66 81 7 3	8 8 2 <1 5	52% Catholic 17% Protestant 19% Other 10% Orthodox 3% Anglican
2	Muslim	1,283	350	892	33	2	5	0.5	Islam 83% Sunni 16% Shiite 1% Other
3	Hindu	851	3	845	1	1	1	0.5	Hinduism 70% Visnu 25% Shiva 2% Reform
4	Non-religious	767	6	601	109	16	31	4	Non-believers
5	Chinese Universist	402	0	401	0	0	0.5	0	Ancestorism, Universism
6	Buddhist	375	0	369	1	0.5	3	0.5	Buddhism 56% Mayahana 38% Hinayana 6% Tantrayana
7	Ethnic Religionist	253	105	142	1	3	1	0.5	Local, tribal
8	Atheist	151	0.5	123	22	3	2	0.5	Atheism
9	New Religionist	107	0	104	0.5	0.5	2	0	New Religions
10	Sikh	25	0	24	0	0	0.5	0	Sikhism
11	Jewish	15	0	5	2	1	6	0	Judaism 8% Orthodox 34% Conservative 23% Reform 35% Secular
12	Spiritist	13	0	0	0	13	0	0	Spiritism
13	Baha'ist	7	2	3	0	1	1	0	Baha'ism
14	Confucianist	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	Confucianism
15	Jainist	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	Jainism
16	Shintoist	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	Shintoism
17	Taoist	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	Taoism
18	Zoroastrian	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	Zoroastrianism
		World	Africa	Asia	Europe	Latin America	North America	Oceania

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This Vaughns One-Page Religion Followers Summary web page was updated on 2009-09-16.