Major religious groups
Major religions can be arguably distinguished from minor religions by having a number of adherents more than 1% of the World population. As World population given by the CIA World Fact Book is 6,379,157,361 (July 2004 est.), so major religions can be distinguished by having a number of adherents more than 63,791,573. A round figure of 64 million can be used.
Following are the major world religions:
- Christianity 2 billion
- Roman Catholicism: 1.1 billion
- Protestantism: 360 million
- Eastern Orthodoxy: 220 million
- Anglicanism: 84 million
- Other Christians: 280 million
- Islam 1.3 billion
- Hinduism 900 million
- Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist 850 million
- Buddhism 360 million
- Chinese traditional religion 225 million
- Primal indigenous 150 million
- African Traditional and Diasporic 95 million
Minor religions having adherents less then 64 million (1% of world population)
- Sikhism 23 million
- Juche 19 million
- Spiritism 14 million
- Judaism 14 million
- Shinto 4 million
- Cao Dai 3 million
- Tenrikyo 2.4 million
- Neo Paganism 1 million
- Unitarian Universalism 800,000
- Rastafarianism 700,000
- Scientology 600,000
- Zoroastrianism 150,000
Source of statistics: adherents.com
See also: Religions of the world.