![]() ![]() Three-quarters of Muslims live in Muslim-majority countries. For example, 97% of Hindus live in three Hindu-majority countries: India, Mauritius and Nepal, while 87 %% of Christians live in 157 Christian-majority countries. Three-quarters of religious people live in a country where they form a majority of the population the remaining quarter live as religious minorities. The region also hosts 76% of the world’s religiously unaffiliated people, 700m of whom are Chinese. It is home to 99% of Hindus, 99% of Buddhists, and 90% of those practising folk or traditional religions. Asia-Pacific is the most populous region in the world, and also the most religious. Jews can be Orthodox (or ultra-Orthodox), Conservative, Reform or belong to smaller groups. ![]() There are two main traditions in Buddhism – Theravāda and Mahayana, each with subgroups. Hinduism has four main groups: Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism and Smartism. Muslims might be Sunni (the majority), Shia, Ibadi, Ahmadiyya or Sufi. Christians can be Roman Catholic (the biggest group with almost 1.3 billion adherents), Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Anglican or many other sub-denominations. This does not mean all those people are committed atheists some – perhaps most – have a strong sense of spirituality or belief in God, gods or guiding forces, but they don’t identify with or practise an organised religion.Īlmost all religions have subdivisions. In 2015, 1.2 billion people in the world, or 16%, said they have no religious affiliation at all. But the third biggest category is missing from the above list.
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