WORLDWIDE ADHERENTS OF ALL RELIGIONS (MID 2012)
|
RELIGION
|
POPULATION
|
PERCENTAGE
|
|
Christians
|
2,31,98,39,000
|
32.9%
|
|
Muslims
|
1,60,92,00,900
|
22.8%
|
|
Hindus
|
96,71,64,000
|
13.7%
|
|
Buddhists
|
50,47,84,000
|
7.2%
|
|
Chinese folk religionists
|
43,71,33,000
|
6.2%
|
|
Ethnoreligionists
|
24,74,73,000
|
3.5%
|
|
Neoreligionists
|
6,33,27,000
|
0.9%
|
|
Sikhs
|
2,47,93,400
|
0.4%
|
|
Jews
|
1,49,93,000
|
0.2%
|
|
Spiritists
|
1,39,32,900
|
0.2%
|
|
Daoists
|
85,43,200
|
0.1%
|
|
Baha’is
|
75,50,000
|
0.1%
|
|
Confucianists
|
81,94,690
|
0.1%
|
|
Jains
|
54,52,600
|
0.1%
|
|
Shintoists
|
27,66,200
|
0.0%
|
|
Zoroastrians
|
1,99,800
|
0.0%
|
|
Other religionists
|
14,07,000
|
0.0%
|
|
Nonreligious
|
67,90,54,310
|
9.6%
|
|
Atheists
|
13,63,27,000
|
1.9%
|
|
TOTAL POPULATION
|
7,05,21,35,000
|
100.0%
|
PRINCIPAL LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD
|
LANGUAGE
|
NO. OF SPEAKERS
(MILLIONS)
|
% OF WORLD POPULATION
(APPROX.)
|
LANGUAGE FAMILY
|
|
Mandarin
|
845
|
12.4
|
Sino-Tibetian (Chinese)
|
|
Spanish
|
329
|
4.8
|
Indo - European
|
|
English
|
328
|
4.8
|
Indo - European
|
|
Arabic
|
221
|
3.3
|
Afro - Asiatic
|
|
Hindi
|
182
|
2.7
|
Indo - Aryan
|
|
Bengali
|
181
|
2.7
|
Indo - Aryan
|
|
Portuguese
|
178
|
2.6
|
Indo - European
|
|
Russian
|
144
|
2.1
|
Indo -European (Slavic)
|
|
Japanese
|
122
|
1.8
|
Isolated Language
|
|
Punjabi
|
91
|
1.3
|
Indo - Aryan
|
|
German
|
90
|
1.3
|
Indo - European
|
|
Wu
|
77
|
1.1
|
Sino - Tibetian (Chinese)
|
|
Telugu
|
70
|
1.0
|
Dravidian
|
|
Marathi
|
68
|
1.0
|
Indo - Aryan
|
|
Tamil
|
66
|
1.0
|
Dravidian
|
|
Italian
|
62
|
0.9
|
Indo - European
|
|
Urdu
|
61
|
0.9
|
Indo - Aryan
|
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