Talk:List of religious populations/Archive 2

Table with religious populations
It seems like the opening table in this Wiki is incorrect... it states that Hinduism has 2 billion - 2.2 billion followers and that the source is Adherents.com. It clearly does not state this on the Adherents website and just seems incorrect from a common sense point of view. Also, just look at the Wiki for Hinduism which cites numerous sources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_by_country).

Or I maybe just reading that table wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.30.2 (talk) 02:09, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

I've fixed the table as best I can. The numbers cited should all match the referenced sources now. I'm still not sure about the Buddhist numbers but that seems to be an issue of some debate, so ive left them as I found them. 94.175.71.79 (talk) 01:43, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Anglicans/Methodists/Sectarians?
This section is confusing, to say the least. Anglicans and Methodists are, of course, subsets of Christianity (and should be included in that section), and sectarianism is not a religion at all. Further, the numbers make no sense--Madeira has the eleventh-highest population of Anglicans and Methodists? More than the U.S., Australia, or Canada? Really? And finally, none of this is sourced. I'm going to leave it alone for the time being, but unless someone can come up with a compelling explanation of why it's there (or suggestions for fixing it), I think it may have to go. El Whizzo (talk) 03:19, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Okay, it's been over a week, and no one has defended this section, so I'm removing it. If anyone can come up with a good reason for restoring it, that's fine. El Whizzo (talk) 23:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

CIA's numbers
The CIA source here. It's only used as a source for the total world population, but it also has a 2009 estimate on the percentages of several religions in the world. And seeing as the other sources are unreliable and conflict with eachother, should we use the CIA source as the sole source? Currently in the article it says that 4.3 billion are Muslims yet the source says 2.1 billion, and another source says 1.5 billion...I will update the info exclusively according to the CIA source if no one has any objections. Merlin s  orca  02:03, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of religious populations
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of religious populations's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 17:17, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Indigenous religions in India 100%?
Indigenous religions in India is at 100%? WTF does that mean? I checked the source for that. It held nothing to follow up the 100% claim. Inamos (talk) 16:38, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Rankings; Content
1. I didn't want to take the time to do it, but the lists of religions "By proportion" should be re-sorted by descending percentage.

2. Should figures relating to "Irreligion" be included in an article on religious populations? My answer would be "no".

96.228.5.215 (talk) 19:22, 31 December 2012 (UTC) treplag

Internal contradictions
Lead section: Later on in the same article: Table next to the populations:
 * Christians = 33% of the population
 * Muslims = 22.74%
 * Christians = 2.1 billion
 * Muslims = 2.5 billion
 * Christians: 31.5%
 * Muslims: 10.2%

Part of the problem is that the sources cited are all considered reliable, but they are snapshots of different years. It would be far more useful to show a table or graph of how each population has changed over time. ~Amatulić (talk) 12:46, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Percentage of Hindus and Ravidassia
Is the percentage for Hinduism and Ravidassia 10.80 % and 2.80 % respectively? If so then does it make Ravidassia the fifth largest organized religion after Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.4.33.153 (talk) 11:38, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Bolivia
I removed Bolivia from the list of indigenous religions because it's not supported by the source given, which is the Int. Religious Freedom Report 2009. The relevant bit from the report: Approximately 55 percent of the population identifies itself as indigenous: 29 percent Quechua, 24 percent Aymara, 1 percent Chiquitano, and 1 percent Guaraní. A statement about ethnic/tribal distribution doesn't say anything about the prevalence of indigenous beliefs. Gugganij (talk) 08:06, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Buddhism, the second most followed?
BUDDHISM, the second most followed? Are you serious? Did anybody check the references? Because they are completely wrong!! Check them once again. And yeah, Buddhists are only 400 million, how can they be 27%? Islam is 2nd and Hinduism is third! I WANT SOMEBODY TO CHECK THIS OUT, AND VERIFY THE REFERENCE NEXT TO BUDDISM. PLEASE :)
 * Population is estimated to be around 376 million - 1.7 billion. Bladesmulti (talk) 05:01, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

1.7 billion Buddhist worldwide?
Dear Bladesmulti, I reverted your edits (List of religious populations) because your citation given was a blog and not a realiable source (http://glipho.com/standrewslynx/weekend-buddhism). I didn't gave you a warning because I think your edits are good-faith. As a partly Chinese, I know 400 million Buddhists are way to low and unfair number. Malaysia: 25% Chinese (21% Buddhist/Taoist); Singapore: 75% Chinese (over 50% Buddhist/Taoist); and over 90% of the population in Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Macau are ethnic Han Chinese and many sources agreed about 80-90% are followers of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

I were renewed some Buddhist related articles last month because it looked like a mess, so please stop mess it again.


 * Buddhism by country (I did that project between August 2-3, 2013)

Please don't act like a religious extremist here and always admire WP:NPOV, I will appreciate you for contribution but remember Buddhism didn't taught us to become religious fanatics or kill/hurt anyone under name of religion, please don't make Buddhism and Buddhists become WORSE in Wikipedian opinion. Thank you.Angelo De La Paz (talk) 07:21, 18 August 2013 (UTC)


 * : Angelo De La Paz, i ask you to stop reverting the figures or doing your own research on the established figures. The correct estimate of buddhist population is 376 billion, the highest given estimate is 1.7 billion, so we can better stick to the RS. Bladesmulti (talk) 07:26, 18 August 2013 (UTC)


 * 1.2 billion Buddhist is more acceptable (with 50% of China's population and of course, I have least at 4 sources agreed with it, read Buddhism by country). If we use biased sources, so we will have 1.7 billion Buddhists, 2.1 billion Muslims (http://www.muslimpopulation.com/). Why so many religions want to be the largest one? I will report your edits as vandalism next time, and without mercy for your biased Buddhist opinions. Angelo De La Paz (talk) 07:33, 18 August 2013 (UTC)


 * For you? You can make a blog about that, but here, the largest estimated figure is 1.7 billion, and i got 4 sources about it as well. We have to remember. It's not biased because the 1.7 billion is written by RS. Why you are bragging about muslimpopulation? That page is already isolated and pure fansite because it suggest 1.9 billion population for christian. So better if you stop making your own research, and try to fight the content, not with the people. Bladesmulti (talk) 07:40, 18 August 2013 (UTC)


 * It's so funny, your citation given (http://www.chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php?title=Buddhist) is just copied the whole article of Wikipedia (the last sentence). Here are sources gave 50% of China's population are between Buddhist/Taoist/Chinese Folk:

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 07:53, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) http://www.thearda.com/internationalData/countries/Country_52_2.asp
 * 2) http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Buddhists_in_the_world
 * 3) http://www.justchina.org/china/china-beliefs.asp
 * 4) http://www.foreignercn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2929:buddhism-in-china&catid=1:history-and-culture&Itemid=114
 * 5) http://www.chinabusinessinterpreter.com/Dasiy/16.aspx
 * 6) http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/forum/story/2008/03/080323_tibet_analysis.shtml (in Vietnamese - the fifth text paragraph: Trong một bài mới đây trên Newsweek, tác giả Christian Caryl cùng cộng tác viên từ Ấn Độ, Đài Loan và Trung Quốc đã cho rằng 'từ tôn giáo kêu gọi hòa bình', với chừng 1,5 tỉ người Phật giáo đang thành 'một phong trào chính trị và xã hội' ở châu Á.)
 * 7) http://books.google.com.vn/books?id=y_7OYtpkrSsC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=buddhists+1.2billion&source=bl&ots=OTh2tkDawG&sig=fBn7K4lCtOY_Y6jEcH76pcdOGEQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ag37UZCpFsavkgWuioHgBA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=buddhists%201.2billion&f=false (Sharing Jesus in the Buddhist World, page 19 -21)
 * The "google book" source didn't worked. Even this page wrote 1.7 billion buddhists before like i told, before you turned it into 1.2 billion. Few sources like,, , that says 1.7 billion. Now considering that 376 million is the correct figure of the population, why you are adding it as "500" or "550 million" ? Bladesmulti (talk) 08:06, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Once again Angelo De La Paz, i am just saying, that rest of the religions that are mentioned on the list doesn't shows like "xx million - xx billion", or figures like that, only buddhism does. So what if we add the confirmed figure, which is "376 million" at this moment, not 550 million, or just add "376 million - 1.7 billion", as the largest estimate suggest 1.7 billion instead of 1.2 billion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bladesmulti (talk • contribs) 06:08, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Like shinto's figure started from 27 million, thus it's added after sikhism, same change has been made with buddhism. Bladesmulti (talk) 04:43, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Japan
i think much of this article is all rubbish. but one piece of absolute rubbish that is very eye-catching is the following:

Japan 96% (Mahayana - 93% practicing)

if you look at Religion in Japan you see just how rubbish it is.· Lygophile   has   spoken  02:43, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

wrong information
this article telling that christian are 46% how rubbish this thing and wikupedia is spreading absolutely fake and wrong informations. i think wikipedia should closed if it can't give right and correct info  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.120.246.7 (talk) 05:35, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Where you saw 46%? Bladesmulti (talk) 04:05, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Number of Followers
The following is not an appropriate statement.

It is hard to accurately report the actual number of adherents of Judaism as there are Jews that do not practice the religion that may be under the secular/irreligious category even though they are fully Jewish.

If they are of Jewish decent, but consider themselves to be non-religious, Agnostic, Atheist, Christian, or anything other than Jewish, then for the purposes of this article they are NOT adhernets of Judaism. For the purpose of this article, genetics is a non-issue. "Otherwise Fully Jewish" does not have meaning in this context. Emry (talk) 21:46, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Muslim population in Turkey is exaggerated
It says 99.8% muslims in Turkey. That's ridiculous. In Turkey they write "Islam" as religion in your ID card after your birth. But I know that the muslim population is not higher than 65% of population. And Atheist population is about 20-25%.

And also there are 700.000 zoroastrists known as yezinti. And of course at least 2-3 million of Hellenic speaking Orthodox cryptochristians.

Responding about atheists in turkey. Rather than secular, less practising muslims.

I have looked into this before, in various sources. However it is not possible to be clear on this. But from what I have seen, the number 20-25% that you say, is the minimum number who are secular, meaning supporting the secular state of ataturk, and do not want the state to be an islamic state governed by islamic law instead of secular law. They may also be nominal muslim, or not practising religion very much. But they do still identify themselves as muslim even if they do not practice is very much in daily life. And most of them do still pray at least rarely, and they do celebrate ramadan. And they do believe in God. Pew have done some surveys about how many turks practice their religion, rarely or on muslim holidays, or praying. You can search for it if you choose to, it seems nearly all turks do consider themselves muslim. The atheist number who choose to not believe in God as a clear choice, can be expected to be only 1 to 2% like in most other countries. Agnostics may be more, like 10% to 20% but agnostic is just lack of certainty in belief and a lack of definite knowledge, and doesn't mean that a person stops identifying themselves as a religion. I have known secular turks too, and most of them still identify as muslim even when they do not practice in daily life. Your friends may be atheist, but that is because you choose who to spend your time with, and you probably choose people who have the same views as you.

You can also get an indication of the situation by the presidential elections, and the parliament elections. Which the secular ataturk people have managed only the 20 to 25% support that you talk about. As I said though, these are also muslims, but they just do not want islam ruling the state. Because they want freedom to practice in their way, and not have strict laws about their beliefs. And the religious who support the ruling party and want an islamic state, with islamic laws, seem to be about 50 to 60% of the country.

Secular is not the same as atheist, it simply means people want freedom for all beliefs to have equal freedom and tolerance to be followed by people, without interference by the state imposing one religion or stopping people practising their religion. Since some anti religion atheists may want to impose a type of secularism that doesn't allow freedom of belief for people and only allows atheism, then the secular 20% to 25% would not be having the same secularism as an anti religion atheist, which are an even smaller percentage of atheists, less than the 1 to 2% of atheists in an average country.

Also Christians are only known even by the Christian churches, to be tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands in Turkey, not the 2 to 3 million that you said. And many of those are probably protestant today, rather than orthodox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.8.25 (talk) 17:32, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Not fair for Buddhist population!Other religions are not fair-play with Buddhist population!
I am a Chinese Mandarin and I know the culture of my nation!I am so agree with a person in this discussion who is mixed of many Asian descents with Hispanic.He was say right 90% about the Buddhist population!In China mainland and some our neighbor countries in Far East where is very mysterious,interesting just like "Forbidden palace" in Beijing or anywhere in Far East Asia.

I think 78% Chinese people are Buddhist is very very modest.It is the contradiction when in "mini Chinese nations" as Hong Kong,Taiwan (over 90% is Buddhist);Macau (85%) and Singapore (3/4 is Chinese and 60% total population of whole island is Buddhist).That showed in every 10 Chinese people,at least 8 is Buddhist and the highest is 9 per 10.And someone has explained what is the Buddhism in Chinese culture!I think Buddhism is the most fantastic religion and the true religion of Peace and the Concord!

Mostly Christianity's churches must build as Western and European style.And all Muslim mosques must build as Arab style.

But in Buddhism,you can see the pagodas,temples could build with any traditional style and keep the value of national heritages as Chinese style (common property with Taoism and Confucianism), Korean style, Japanese style (common property with Shinto), Vietnamese style; those are in Mahayana Buddhism.

In Theravada,the architecture is different completely.You can see it in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia,...with Buddhist padodas are made of gold,silver,marble,v.v...

When you travel to Tibet or Himalaya,you can see more different style of Buddhism from architecture,costumes,buildings,v.v...

And so much more.That is the special and the lissomness of Buddhism;Buddhism is not boring,dry,rigid and monotonous as other religion as Christianity,Islam,Hinduism or Judaism!

I am swear to say Buddhist percentage in China mainland must more than Vietnam at least (86-87%) and even highest as 90% possibly!I will take the neutral figure (from 86% to 90%) is 88%

In China mainland;who is "non-religious" when he or she died,all their funerals would celebrate in Buddhist rituals mainly and Taoist rituals (burning of hell money;clothes,house,car,facilitiesfor life after death and wait for the new reincarnation in next life) and Confucianist (ancestor worship) with many (not all) ancestral altar under statues or pictures of Great Buddha,Guan Yin Bodhisattva or Dizang Bodhisattva!

I think Buddhist population must plus more 105 million minimum (86%) and 158 million people maximum (90%-only China mainland).And total Buddhist population must be from 1.588 billion and 1.639 billion (23.8% and 24.5% of World's population)

Hi, I think that Buddhism may be from 400 to 900 million. It depends mainly on whether China has more who are chinese folk religion (which it seems so), tao, or buddhist. But we cannot know, because the chinese religions, and buddhism are often practised very mixed together. And so it is hard to know whether they are practising Buddhism or something else more. But don't worry, things are as they are and if you are happy being Buddhist then be happy with that, I am sure no one will force the countries where Buddhists and Chinese religions are to change. Have a good day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.8.25 (talk) 17:45, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 February 2014
Gmora001 (talk) 01:11, 23 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. It seems that a Helix Fossil is a Pokemon item?  Anon 126   (talk - contribs) 01:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

This is where this comes from: http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon --87.122.127.79 (talk) 00:32, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * And it has nothing whatsoever to do with the legitimacy of this request. ~Amatulić (talk) 00:59, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Edit request
Can you please add "which ranges from execution – based on an interpretation of certain hadiths – to no punishment at all as long as they do not rebel against the Islamic society or religion" (excerpt from Apostasy in Islam) to the Muslim "Remarks:" area as the current version seems to mislead the reader into thinking that they sentence people who change religion to death instantly (before the reader gets to read halfway into the introduction of Apostasy in Islam to find the true fact). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.205.207.45 (talk) 17:22, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Laughable jumble
3.2 Muslims, 3.6 Sikhs, and 3.7 Bahá'ís are listed but not Christians, Mormons, Protestants and Catholics??? But I'm just an atheist, what do I know? I'm so glad it's locked down. Have phun! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.133.254.31 (talk) 03:33, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

33.22 ≠ 31.59
Christian 31.59% (of which Roman Catholic 18.85%, Protestant 8.15%, Orthodox 4.96%, Anglican 1.26%) 18.85 + 8.15 + 4.96 + 1.26 = 33.22 The percentages clearly don't match. And I'm sure there are many other christian religious minorities. Please change this, stuff like this make people think Wikipedia is not a valid encyclopedia.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.21.105.252 (talk) 23:18, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Philippines Christian/indigenous Percentages don't reconcile
Article shows 93% Christian and 16% indigenous. This also fails to account for a large Muslim population in the Philippines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaiwen1 (talk • contribs) 03:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

There are often some who practice a mixture of Christian and indigenous, in places where indigenous religions exist alongside many Christians. So some of the indigenous may be Christians and also indigenous. While other indigenous will be indigenous religions only. Because those two headings are only the top 20 countries with adherents of that religion then Philippines appears in the Christian and indigenous. The Philippines is not in the top 20 countries with adherents of islam. That is why it is not in the islam list. But the Christian and indigenous can be some mixed, so this was not written as a zero sum adding up to 100%. However if one list, showed all the religions of the Philippines in relation to eachother, then they would count the mixed Christian and indigenous as one or the other, to keep the total as 100%. According to the Philippines page on wikipedia, the muslim population of the Philippines is 5%, and they have written the indigenous as 2%, when selecting the mixed to be either Christian or indigenous, to add up to 100%. Have a good day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.8.25 (talk) 17:03, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

The percentage of Buddhist in China mainland,South East Asia,East asia.
Hi everyone!I am a mixed race of many Asian descents (Chinese/Cantonese,Vietnamese) with Filipino-Hispanic and I am a Buddhist and a religious researcher!Buddhism is the special religion which is very hard to know who is Buddhist in the secular society.As in Turkey,over 97% population is Muslims but they look like secular Westerns!I will discussion some wrong or not exact percentage of Buddhist in some countries!I will edit the list of religious population as soon as July 2007 with newest census and more exact!And Buddhism is the second largest religion with over 1.465 billion wasn't the liar or ridiculous behind Christianity (over 2.100 billion) and it followed by Islam and Hinduism.I think the recent census is too exact but not perfect!


 * SOUTH EAST ASIA:

1/Vietnam: I am living in Vietnam now,Buddhism in Vietnam is very strong influence from about 2000 years ago to now;but I am decisive to say the percentage of Buddhist in Vietnam is around from over 85% to maximum 88%,not 92% is very high and unbelievable (remember Hoa Hao Buddhism is a Vietnamese sect of Mahayana Buddhism not a separate religion;about Caodaism is NOT a sect of Buddhism'it is a separate Vietnamese religion which is the mixture of Buddhism-Taoism-Confucianism with Christianity mainly and included Hinduism or even Islam too).

Here is percentage of religion in Vietnam: Buddhism (all sects):88%; Christianity:8% (Roman Catholic is over 6.5%,Protestant is around 1% to 1.5%); Cao Dai (nearly 3%) and 1% is other religions (Muslim 0.08%;Hindu;Bahá'í)

2/Laos: The Buddhist must be over 90% at least to 95%;91% is too less.It is too funny when the percentage of Buddhist in Laos is less than Vietnam.Although,the influence of Buddhism in both these countries is heavy but in Laos,it is more important as a state religion!

3/Thailand: The percentage of Buddhist population is only could be 95% is the maximum,not 97% is quite high!

4/Myanmar: The percentage of Buddhist in Myanmar is around from 88-90% is the most possible.93% is couldn't true!

5/Malaysia: 44% Malaysian people is Buddhist===>It is very unbelievable.The real percentage of Buddhist in Malaysia is 19.2% (Buddhist only) to 21.8% (plus 2.6% of Confucianism and Taoism which is called East Asian Buddhism or "Triple religion").I will edit it soon with the latest census of 2007 soon!

6/Singapore: The Buddhist population in Singapore is from minimum (42.5%) could to be 51% (Buddhism+Taoism 8.5%) and maybe high as 60% acceptably!(plus more 2/3 of 14.8% No religion)

7/Philippines: The Buddhist population is only from 2 to 2.5% not 3% is a liitle bit high!

I have stayed in China in nearly a month (total time of 2 visits) and over 1.5 million Chinese live in Vietnam (half is concentrated in ChinaTown or Cho Lon in Vietnamese;which is the area of District 5,6 and a part of some neighbour districts in Ho Chi Minh city with predominant Chinese people).
 * CHINA MAINLAND:

And Chinese is more "Buddhist" than Vietnamese.8-9 or even 100% in every 10 Chinese people are Buddhists and they are worship common Buddha,Bodhisattvas,Arhats (Buddhism) with Taoist God,Goddess,Saints and heavy influence by Confucian philosophy in family-society-nation with respect teachings of Buddhism in private spiritual or religious life as a spiritual treatments,the philosophy which could make the life more peaceful,relaxed,easier,merciful and healthier body and bright mind with fresh life!And Vietnamese is same like that!

I've travelled to China 2 times and I've just watched a travel series of the Buddhist culture in East Asia.And it said the Buddhist population in China mainland is OVER 1 BILLION PEOPLE at least;Buddhism,Taoism and Confucianism "all in one" but Buddhism could the balance of each others!Buddhism and Taoism is the true religions with common philosophy but Confucianism is the philosophy than a religion!I am confident to say the percentage of Buddhist in China mainland is must be over 80% at least or maybe over 85% probably!77-78% is under the minimum (80%).Example for percentage of religion in China mainland: Buddhism (80%-85%,common with Taoist and Confucianist),all sects of Christianity (6.5 to 7%),Muslim (1.5 to under 2%),others as shamanism,animist (1%) and Atheist (5-10%,almost is members of China's Communist Party)

And if you've ever watched the TV series or famous Chinese novel of "Journey to the West".You can see the Monkey King- Sun Wukong have made trouble in Heaven and defeated an army of 100,000 celestial soldiers, led by the Four Heavenly Kings, Erlang Shen, and Nezha.Eventually, the Jade Emperor (the highest God of Taoism) appealed to Buddha, who subdued and trapped Wukong under a mountain.The Monkey King could do impudent activities with Jade Emperor and his Heaven Palace but he daren't do it with Great Buddha and Guan Yin Bodhisattva because they are more powerful and more merciful who could punish and teach him only!


 * EAST ASIA:

1/North Korea: 60% population of North Korea is Buddhist maybe certain but I think it is too less.The neutral estimate of Buddhist population here is should be over 65% certainly.

2/South Korea: Nowadays,South Korea is very particular country in East Asia where Christians is 49% and Buddhists is only 47% by the CIA's sources.But however,Buddhist population in Korea could be equal or 50% of South Korean population definitely;50.7% now is not really right!

3/Mongolia: Buddhist 98%, Muslim 2%, 20,000 Christians.No more no less!(Source:)

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY HELIX FOSSIL!! 1/India: Over 1.1% of India' population is Buddhist could be certain!
 * SOUTH ASIA:

2/Sri lanka: Over 90% Sinhalese people is Buddhist but the religious popualtion of Sri Lanka is Buddhism 76.7% (not high as 81%),Islam 8.5%, Hinduism 7.9%,Christianity 6.9% ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY HELIX FOSSIL!! 3/Nepal: Hinduism 80.2%, Buddhism 21%, Islam 2.8%, other 1.2% The Buddhist population in Nepal is only 21%,not 33% is very liar!

4/Other countries in South Asia: ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY HELIX FOSSIL!! -Bhutan: Lamaistic Buddhist 97%, Indian- and Nepalese-influenced Hinduism 2%, Muslims 1%

-Pakistan: about 0.5% is Buddhist

-Bangladesh: 89.7% of the population was Muslim; 9.2% was Hindu; 0.7% were Buddhists; 0.3% was Christian and 0.1% was Animist. (Source:)
 * There is contradiction in the article. It states 82% of Chinas population is irreligious. --2.245.175.56 (talk) 15:21, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Druze
what about druze ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.184.140.68 (talk) 20:07, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Countries with the greatest proportion of Jews
United Kingdom is missing from the "by percentage" table !

maybe data should be copied from Jewish_population_by_country (2012) to replace the "as of 2010" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robspan (talk • contribs) 16:05, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 August 2014
Under "Judaism", it is absurd to claim that 17% of the population of "Palestine" is Jewish. The reference points only to the World Factbook, where no such claim is easily found -- particularly considering the fact that Palestine is not even listed as a country in the World Factbook. This is some bizarre political tactic not based in any kind of reality.

81.27.98.105 (talk) 02:54, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: I think this is meant to be linked to the Factbook's entry on the "West Bank" here:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/we.html where under ethnic groups it lists 17% as Jewish. under religion, however, it says 12-14% so i will change it to that Cannolis (talk) 09:28, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Christian population in France
The number of 55,948,600 Christians in France is bullshit. Total population of France is 66,616,416 (from the wikipedia page) and the Religion-in-France page gives a percentage of Christians ranging from 45% to 64% (64% is from an ultra-religious newspaper) So it should be between 30 and 40 millions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daffy4671 (talk • contribs) 15:11, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 October 2014
Proportion of Jains by population:

The article ( < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Jainism > ) cites that Suriname has the highest proportion of Jains by population, followed by Fiji , Kenya and India. The article is as follows: " 1. Suriname 0.3% 2. Fiji 0.2% 3. Kenya 0.2% 4. India 0.033% "

Pls change this to

" 1. India 0.39% 2.Suriname 0.3%  3.Fiji o.2%  4.Kenya 0.2% "

Citation : which states that population of Jains in India is around 4,200,000 in the 1.028 billion population of India , which is about 0.3891% ( rounded off to 0.39% ). Estimates suggest that the population is actually around 8,000,000 ( which is about 0.78% ). Pls change the stats as mentioned above. Thank You. Rohan Rajesh T (talk) 17:26, 19 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi, could you provide some sources to confirm the changes youve mentioned above. Amortias (T)(C) 20:23, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Percentage of Roman Catholics
In the membership statistics section of the article on the Catholic Church, it is reported (and cited) that 'Catholics represent half of all Christians'. However the lead section of this article does not agree with this number, saying they represent a mere 16.85%. The two numbers are quite far apart. However, as both the 50% number and the lead section are given a citation, which source should we follow? The Average Wikipedian (talk) 13:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Correctly attribute each, according to... Bladesmulti (talk) 15:33, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Irreligion in China
The section on irreligion lists China as 47% irreligious, but in the image China is coloured for 90% or more. Is this a mistake? If it is deliberate (I'm guessing it would be because of the different ways that irreligious can be defined) then it should be explained in the article. 202.21.137.120 (talk) 21:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Please Correct Ahmadi are not a muslims
Hello please Correct Ahmadi are not a muslims. Ahmadi called Quadyani Religion which is other religion but nearly to islam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idanish (talk • contribs) 03:21, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Top Rankings of Christian Proportion by Country
Ecuador should replace Armenia in the 20th place for the Sub-Topic "Christians" in the Topic "By Proportion." Ecuador has a population where 94% of them are Christians (mainly Catholic) while Armenia has a population of 93.5% Christian. The information mentioned above was shown in this source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country

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Mormonism Sub-heading?
Just wondering why Mormonism, of all the variations of Christian faith, warrants it's own sub-heading? Surely it can't be numbers (which would be beaten by Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism and so on). Not about to reef out a section willy nilly in what would probably be a sensitive entry, but I would have thought you either expand everything or leave them all summarized. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.122.54 (talk) 23:59, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 * It seems likely it is listed separately as a subsection due to the controversy regarding whether Mormonism is "truly" part of Christianity. See Mormonism and Christianity and it's associated talk page (including 22 talk page archives) for more details regarding this controversy. — Asterisk *  Splat → 16:06, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Correct Christian Population, it cannot be over 7 billion -- 14 January 2015
'''There cannot be over 7 billion Christians as there are just over 7 billion people on the planet. Not everyone is a Christian. It is almost 2.1 billion Christian's'''

142.177.218.95 (talk) 22:38, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ❌: I can't see it claimed anywhere in the article that there are 7 billion Christians. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 23:45, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 January 2015
Starting with the name of GOD ALMIGHTY,Who is MOST BENIFICENT AND MOST MERCIFUL!!the problem is that ahmadis are not muslims.the description is as under.ahmadis arose from Pakistan,mostly northern areas of Pakistan.Now,where ever ahmadis are,their origin is Pakistan,and they have been declared as non muslims by the government of Islamic republic of Pakistan.so when they are declared as non muslims,this article should be changed and CHANGE AHMADIS FROM 1% MUSLIMS TO OTHER RELIGION

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Semi-protected edit request on 22 January 2015
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Semi-protected edit request on 23 January 2015
Starting with the name of GOD ALMIGHTY,WHO IS MOST BENIFICENT AND MOST MERCIFUL!!Ahmadis are not Muslims.They arose from Pakistan and have been declared as non muslims and minorities by ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN and by Islamic unions.CHANGE AHMADIS'FROM MUSLLIMS 1% TO OTHER RELIGION!!!everybody should no they are not muslims!

Malik shahbaz awan (talk) 04:05, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * They are considered as one of the Muslims by every one except the census of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Bladesmulti (talk) 04:30, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 February 2015
Please change New Zealand's ranking on the irreligious list from 34.7% to 41.9%. As of the 2013 census New Zealand is now 41.9% irreligious.

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Neodiscordianism
To whom it may or may not concern,

We are Neodiscordians. Although our numbers are small and secret, please consider listing us in all religious type lists.

For any information or if there is a better avenue to equal treatment, please contact us at mktv23@gmail.com.

Thank You!

Pope Kang — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.197.26.72 (talk) 02:42, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Adherent's Table
I realize that this table merely represents estimated figures presented for illustrative purposes only (and in order to rank religions by size). However, it should at least be within some standard deviation of the plausible/possible numbers. The numbers, as stated now, add up to more than 7.3 billion religious adherents (200 million more than the estimated population of the entire world). When you add on the estimated 800 - 900 million people who are non-religious, agnostic, or atheist, the world population would be more than 8.1 billion, or more than 1.1 billion off. As this is a nearly 16% gap, I would suggest that these numbers - which again I realize are just estimates/illustrations - should be tightened up. The numbers should reflect estimates not fiction/made up numbers (which is what it borderlines on at present). I also submit that perhaps the "over-count" is a result of "double-counting," i.e. individuals who identify with one or more religion. This is fine, no need to dedup (which is likely either impossible or impractical given the available data/reliability of sources); however, I think if this is the case/theory for the over-count, some sort of explanation should be provided so that it isn't just a table that clearly represents an impossible total (i.e. population of 8 billion plus). Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.188.246.188 (talk) 21:51, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 May 2015
Christianity is the largest religion in the world. then it is Islam. then it is the other religions

109.146.96.66 (talk) 18:52, 1 May 2015 (UTC)


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Non-religious and atheistic should be merged
On line 3: non-religious 9.66%, atheists 2.01%

This should be either merged or reevaluated, asap. I hope I don't need to set up an argument for it. Thank you. HumanistAlien (talk) 13:16, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Is there not happening anything because what I object against seems valid, or there is no one to do it? HumanistAlien (talk) 21:06, 9 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I think you might want to wait longer than 1 day. Actually there is a difference between non-religious and atheist so the response will probably be No.

For 99% of the people they are the same, I don't think I'm mistaken about that. Segregating it just creates confusion. Explicit, or implicit confusion... HumanistAlien (talk) 19:36, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Good job, to all of you for contributing to the confusion about what atheism means originally. HumanistAlien (talk) 13:30, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 July 2015
please change to
 * 1) 🇮🇳 India 0.033%
 * 1) 🇮🇳 India 0.33%

because, according to 2011 census, the Jain population in India is 4.1 million, which, in turn, translates to 0.33% of Indian population.

203.196.206.173 (talk) 09:47, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done this appears to be correct according to this article. Stickee (talk) 01:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 August 2015
The statistics in the first paragraph of the article say they come from the world factbook. Most of them do, but not all. The percentages for Christian and Muslim have been amended. Could someone please change the text on this page to match the referenced source. Here is the text from the referenced world factbook page:

Christian 33.39% (of which Roman Catholic 16.85%, Protestant 6.15%, Orthodox 3.96%, Anglican 1.26%), Muslim 22.74%, Hindu 13.8%, Buddhist 6.77%, Sikh 0.35%, Jewish 0.22%, Baha'i 0.11%, other religions 10.95%, non-religious 9.66%, atheists 2.01% (2010 est.)

PS I found this because the current figures don't add to 100%.

Timzog (talk) 10:06, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Thank you for pointing that out! Mz7 (talk) 23:27, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Hinduism
--2001:558:1418:48:59A5:FDD1:F4CA:8F4F (talk) 21:55, 29 September 2015 (UTC)Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism are under Hinduism. Like Sunni and Shia or like different Christian sects (Catholics or Orthodox). Please understand that and update accordingly.

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The article states 'Palestine 12–14% [117]' under countries for Judaism percentage by country as of 2010. Reference 117 as linked in the footer cites the CIA's World Fact Book for West Bank (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/we.html). The author inaccurately quoted the source and cited Palestine rather than the location being the West Bank. Although West Bank is a location and not a country, the source cited does not identify Palestine as a country and the reference should therefore be updated for accuracy.

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 * ✅. Since the Palestinian Authority also claims areas other than the West Bank, I have qualified the entry with "(West Bank)" in parentheses.  Be prosperous!  Paine   23:52, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Secular?
I dont believe being "secular" would count as a religion. Its more of a political position. What do other editors have to say about this? Misdemenor (talk) 23:41, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, Misdemenor – in context, I've always heard or read "secular" to mean "as opposed to religious" or "other than religious". The word does have other meanings, though, such as "worldly" and "limited in time" (as opposed to "eternal").  Hope this helps.  Be prosperous!  Paine   21:21, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Atheism as one with Agnosticism
The average atheist doesn't accept any metaphysical belief (not all of them though, very few accept UFO magic etc.). The average agnostic(ist) is open to metaphysics (even potentially). Hard core atheists and hard core agnostics oppose to each other with the same oomph as with believers. Some "atheo-humanists" (because also "religious humanists" exist) merge many non-secular beliefs as one to appear statistically stronger. It is as fraudulent as merging all Abrahamic religions as one, or all belligerent sects of Islam as one; these people kill each other, so that merge has no social or anthropological value. Some brains are puny and have not enough space for the actual word! This is Wikipedia so we cannot accept mistakes of statisticians without taking responsibility! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:4106:9E00:B4B0:93A3:4796:208E (talk) 03:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 October 2016
The section was recently edited to change the name of the Czech Republic to Czechia, a name preferred by some Czechs. However, the opinion of editors on Wikipedia is that the main article name should remain "Czech Republic". Therefore, please revert this undiscussed change in order to match the main article. Thank you. 64.105.98.115 (talk) 19:13, 21 October 2016 (UTC)


 * ✅ We go with the WP:COMMONNAME. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:18, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that. 64.105.98.115 (talk) 19:32, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

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Contradiction tag
I came here through Category:Self-contradictory articles. So I tracked down the edit where it was originally tagged for contradiction. It was done by a now retired editor. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_religious_populations&type=revision&diff=538648864&oldid=538641848

In part there seems to have been no real talk in the archives on contradictions? But plenty saying there's wrong information. The following of May 2013 by ex-User:Amatulic, now User:Anachronist is the only one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_religious_populations/Archive_2#Internal_contradictions

In part I can see it still discussed perhaps, not a contradiction within the article but within wikipedia, regarding the different values for muslims in Saudi Arabia here and in Islam by country. Before there were more obvious contradictions within the article.

Here's to hoping we can finally remove the contradition tag. :)--User:Dwarf Kirlston - talk 02:30, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

To add Christian Population of Australia
Under the section: Christians Countries with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country (as of 2010):

Christian Population of Australia is missing. Please add. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kyawswar.p.m (talk • contribs) 14:01, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 April 2017
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Section 4.2 Muslims by proportion is incorrect
The list says it comes from the wikipedia page Islam by country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country).

The list does not match the numbers from that page. Especially on that page saudi arabia is listed as 97% muslim proportion. And in this list it is shown as 100% that is obviously incorrect, especially because of the number of foreigners in saudi arabia who are also counted as it's population, and not all are muslim.

Saudi Arabia is not 100% muslim, and to say so is only propaganda. Please change the page and make the numbers from a source, either the other page or something else, but at least from some source and not just made up.

P.S. It also says in the remark below the list, that Saudi Arabia is excluded from that list. Well it is not excluded because it is put at number 1 ! :D That is not just not excluding, it is putting it in first position. If it is meant to be excluded, then remove it from the list, and if it is meant to be correct and not excluded then change the percentage to the correct one, for example 97%, and put it in the correct position for that percentage in the list.

Thanks.

--- Oman is also excluded from this list. The percentage of Muslim citizens in Oman must surely be in the region of 100%. Does anyone have a source reference? Kmasters0 (talk) 05:50, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

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Syria is a religion of Islam — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:8BA8:EF70:614F:E448:5ECA:EA94 (talk) 00:43, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Percentages are wrong
On the main table it says that there are 30 million Sikhs and that is .32% of the world population and it also says Spiritism & Judaism have .20% or .21% while only have 15 and 14 million followers respectively. I don't know how to work the tables, I just know the math here doesn't work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.189.132.221 (talk) 00:39, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect ranking for the section "Largest Sikh populations"
In this section Australia appears twice and Pakistan is ranked as the 15th highest population while the accompanying figure of 50000 would put it at 11th highest. Without further examination of the source I'm not sure what the resolution is to the evidently incorrect ranking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tellurium128 (talk • contribs) 22:25, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Population of Buddhist in Sri Lanka under the Largest Buddhist populations section is wrong
the population of Buddhist in Sri Lanka is recorded as 4,450,000 under the Largest Buddhist populations section. The population of Buddhist is recorded as 69.3% in Sri Lanka under the same article (Countries with the greatest proportion of Buddhists from Buddhism by country (as of 2010)). The total population of Sri Lanka is just above 20 million people making the claim of 4,450,000 wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by NedStark1231 (talk • contribs) 07:49, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Bad link in External Links: "Religious Intelligence"
The link to "Religious Intelligence" in External Links is obsolete and should be removed. It not redirects to a different organization. CharleyMays (talk) 13:03, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Religion
I think Buddhism is also the Hinduism because the buddha is an avatar of vishnu Karthikeyans1947 (talk) 05:48, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 August 2018
In the Adherent estimates in 2012 table, when concluding the total, you guys made a mistake of 7167 million instead of 7167 billion. I'ld be glad if u can make changes. Ghetto Prayer (talk) 07:17, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: Technically it's correct as written, but I don't know why the sum of that table is in millions and not billions. I've changed it to 7.167 billion instead. &#8209;&#8209; El Hef  ( Meep? ) 17:27, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Completely False Statistics Regarding "Irreligious"
The page currently states that "72%" of Denmark is irreligious, this contradicts what is stated on the page Religion In Denmark where it is claimed that 75.9% of Denmark belongs to the Church of Denmark, which would make Denmark predominantly Christian and not "irreligious." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.189.236 (talk) 22:01, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Update, I just read the "remarks" under the category "irreligious." What a completely bogus and unencyclopedic category, truly a pathetic attempt to push your agenda here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.189.236 (talk) 22:08, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 October 2018
The dispatch of Jewish population in the world is wrong and does not even follow the reference document. Specifically, there are some millions jews in the US, while a few hundreds only in Gibraltar... Just need to look inside the reference document [5] and correct accordingly 2A02:ED0:6DB2:D700:8CD:60E0:3559:AE6D (talk) 11:03, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ❌. I'm not quite sure what you think the problem is exactly, but the text in the article accurately reflects the source. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 14:40, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 February 2019
Hi, So I just wanted to edit that can you please change Islam to #1 religion. Looking forward please accept my edit request 96.248.88.18 (talk) 23:08, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
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The Percentages are wrong
Adding the percentages totals to 107%, not 100%. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.29.98.238 (talk) 13:41, 8 September 2018 (UTC)


 * There difference is 783 million in total. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.196.40.142 (talk) 20:10, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Every single percentage seems to have a substantial error, at least if one calculates the associated percentages from the adherent count divided by the total population count. The error is also variable and not consistent across different entries. 14:26, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Buddhists are severely undercounted
The numbers here are seriously flawed as it forces a 1 person = 1 religion rule. In reality, a substantial number of people in Asia follow multiple religions. For example, in East Asia, most practice a combination of Buddhism and local beliefs (Taoism and Confucianism in China/Taiwan, Shintoism in Japan). In reality, most these countries are either Buddhist or non-practicing Buddhist. So a number between 1 and 2 billion is much more likely. You might say that non-practicing buddhists should be counted under secular, but then the number of christians would have to be at least halved as in most countries today very few go to church or actively practice Christianity.

Likewise Taoists, Confucians are also undercounted as a result.

When will we use a more sensible way to show the influence of different religious traditions today?

Donquigleone (talk) 18:51, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 November 2019
Hi All, The maths in the table at the top of the pages on religious shares is incorrect. Obviously, looking at the list of changes made, various numbers have been altered without the table totals nor the percentages being updated. So the shares of the religions are now quite inaccurate. For the purposes of mathematical accuracy (non-policical, non-religious) this should be updated. I think it is important!

WIKIPEDIA			CORRECTED Religion	      Adherents	Percentage		Millions	Real percentage Christianity	   2.4 billion[3]	33%		         2400.00	29.81% Islam	            1.9 billion	24.10%		         1900.00	23.60% Secular[a]/Nonreligious[b]/ Agnostic/Atheist    1.2 billion	16%		         1200.00	14.91% Hinduism	   1.15 billion	15%		         1150.00	14.28% Buddhism	    521 million	7%		          521.00	6.47% Chinese traditional religion[c]	    394 million	5.50%		          394.00	4.89% Ethnic religions excluding some in separate categories	300 million	4.19%		         300.00	3.73% African traditional religions	 100 million[5]	1.40%		          100.00	1.24% Sikhism	             30 million	0.32%		           30.00	0.37% Spiritism	     15 million	0.21%		           15.00	0.19% Judaism	         14.5 million[6]	0.20%		           14.50	0.18% Bahá'í	            7.0 million	0.10%		            7.00	0.09% Jainism	            4.2 million	0.06%		            4.20	0.05% Shinto	            4.0 million	0.06%		            4.00	0.05% Cao Dai	            4.0 million	0.06%		            4.00	0.05% Zoroastrianism	    2.6 million	0.04%		            2.60	0.03% Tenrikyo	    2.0 million	0.02%		            2.00	0.02% Neo-Paganism	    1.0 million	0.01%		            1.00	0.01% Unitarian Universalism	0.8 million	0.01%		           0.80	0.01% Rastafari	    0.6 million	0.01%		            0.60	0.01% total	          7.167 billion	100%		          8050.7	100.00%

I tired to add a PDF with the corrected data but it would not upload.

Regards, -Nigel ClassicalNigel (talk) 14:57, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 20:27, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

also muslims are the best people and the c;eanest people so be a muslim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.203.194.249 (talk) 12:48, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 January 2020
Change 13.91% in the "Adherent estimates in 2019" table to 14.91%. 199.106.103.55 (talk) 18:05, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2020
212.103.251.205 (talk) 22:21, 14 February 2020 (UTC) Your figures add up to 100.9 % So apparently there are more adherents of beliefs on this planet than there are inhabitants of the planet. We the public are not quite as stupid as you would like to believe. At least have the decency to be civilised and accurate when it comes to simple arithmetic.
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 * The total may not add to 100 due to rounding, according to the source cited for the chart. RudolfRed (talk) 22:27, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

107.3% of the world population?
A) Obviously, the world isn't 107% populated, as the highest is 100% reflected in your table, yet the numbers don't add up in that column. This was already pointed out previously last year, yet remains unchanged. B) I'm not trying to be obtuse here, but when you present information in the form of data which is blatantly wrong, barring any reasonable explanation otherwise, it behooves the reader to throw it all out because there is no way to make a determination of which component(s) of that data are inaccurate. C) Please fix this, as it not only makes this entire posted item questionable, but the contents of everything else in Wikipedia. It is incumbent upon you to do so considering all other avenues to make edits and corrections are prohibited. D) For the record, considering there are many other un-included religions that were a part of those listed, the total can never reach 100% unless all religions of the world are included in the tabulation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiStevenTBrown (talk • contribs) 12:52, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

WikiStevenTBrown (talk) 12:54, 13 April 2019 (UTC) WikiStevenTBrown

When you round decimal points .45 become 5 etc. When that is totalled, it can go above 100. ChandlerMinh (talk) 06:31, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

The "Adherent in 2005" section shows 100% for the total at the bottom, but the actual figures only add up to 87.09%. MFNickster (talk) 14:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

The Baha'i Faith Population Around the world the World
the Bahai Faith is in many more countries than listed. "There are 6 million Bahá'ís in the world, in 235 countries and around 6,000 live in Britain." The above is quoted from the BBC News website. The Bahai Faith is in way more than just 20 countries. It's in 235 countries around the world. Please fix this!

You guys have even made a list of when the Bahai Faith started in each country: Most of the below list comes from The Baháʼí Faith: 1844–1963.[14] 1923: British Isles, Germany, India 1924: Egypt 1925: United States of America & Canada, Philippines 1931: Iraq 1934: Australia and New Zealand, Persia 1948: Canada 1953: Italy and Switzerland 1956: Central & East Africa, North West Africa, South & West Africa 1957: Alaska; Arabia; New Zealand; North East Asia (Japan), Pakistan, South East Asia; Mexico and the Republics of Central America; The Greater Antilles; The Republics of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela; The Republics of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay & Bolivia; Scandinavia and Finland; the Benelux Countries; The Iberian Peninsula. 1958: France 1959: Austria, Burma, South Pacific, Turkey, 1961: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina. 1962: Belgium, Ceylon, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Switzerland 1964 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam 1967 Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Laos, Belize, Sikkim[15] 1969 Papua New Guinea 1972 Singapore, Guyana 1974 Hong Kong, South East Arabia[16] 1975 Niger[11] 1977 Greece 1978 Burundi, Mauritania, the Bahamas, Oman, Qatar, the Mariana Islands, Cyprus[17] 1980: Transkei 1981 Namibia, and Bophuthatswana; the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, and Bermuda; Tuvalu. re-formation in Uganda[18] 1984: Cape Verde Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, French Guiana, Grenada, Martinique, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Yemen, Canary Islands 1990: Macau[19] 1991 Czechoslovakia, Romania & Soviet Union 1992: Greenland, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Belarus & Moldova; Russia, Georgia & Armenia; Central Asia, Bulgaria, Baltic States, Albania, Poland, Hungary, Niger (re-elected) (as many new NSAs came into existence in this one year as all the NSAs that existed in 1953.)[20] 1994: Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Slovenia & Croatia, 1995: Eritrea, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus, Sicily. 1996: Sao Tome & Principe, Moldova, Nigeria[21] 1999: Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia 2004: Iraq reformed[22] 2008: Vietnam reformed[23]


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Semi-protected edit request on 10 April 2020
Currently the world has 1.8 billion Muslims, not 1.5 billion. Please change this number from the article. Islam is also the fastest growing religion on the planet. Rin.chan.99 (talk) 00:14, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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Also, the Bahai Faith is in many more countries than listed. There are 6 million Bahá'ís in the world, in 235 countries and around 6,000 live in Britain. The above is quoted from the BBC News website. The Bahai Faith is in way more than just 20 countries. It's in 235 countries around the world. Please fix this!

Yes. He is right please edit the data. Amaan 2729 (talk) 07:26, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 April 2020
Change 1.5 billlion to 1.9 billion Thramer (talk) 07:44, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 5 May 2020
Change 29.6% to 31.1% to Christianity on the bar box, as per source that is supported inside the list, you can check the source, in 2020 the percentage is 31.1% not 29.6%, also it's needed to be updated for other religions.Hugitt (talk) 22:13, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The Pew Forum article is dated April 2015, with projections for 2020 and future decades.  It doesn't appear to have been updated with actual numbers for the year 2020.  Maybe you can find a more up-to-date reliable source.  GoingBatty (talk) 00:39, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Then the bar box, should be changed to 2010, because the article itself claims that the data are from pew is not mention it. the source do not mentioned that Christian percentage is 29.6% (not in 2010, 2020, 2030 or 2050). yet the list put this figures and claims its from Pew.Hugitt (talk) 00:43, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Good call. I've changed it to the 2010 percentages.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:51, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 may 2020: Christian population in France
This article lists a Christian population of 55,948,600 in France in 2011 without giving a source. This number seems to go against the data presented on the religion in France page or the Pew estimate used as a source for some other countries in the same section of this article. Going with the latter, the number should be 39,560,000. Mbty (talk) 10:33, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done! GoingBatty (talk) 17:16, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Denmark listed at 72% Irreligious and atheist?
According to : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Denmark

"In January 2019, 74.7%[1] of the population of Denmark were registered members of the Church of Denmark (Den Danske Folkekirke), the officially established church, which is Protestant in classification and Lutheran in orientation.[2][notes 1]"

How can Denmark be both 72% Irreligious and atheist and also 74.4% registered members of the Church of Denmark?

I see no source for many of these percentages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:8380:BF40:10BA:15B4:1B1:C0F2 (talk) 22:59, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Christian population in june 2020
The christian population in june 2020 its about 2.55 billion! Bisha frroku (talk) 19:16, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Christian population growth is the population growthof the global Christian community. According to a 2020 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.55 billion Christians around the world in 2010, more than three times as many as the 600 million recorded it 1910. However, this rate of growth is slower than the overall population growth over the same time period.[1] According to a 2015 Pew Research Centerstudy, by 2050, the Christian population is expected to be 2.9 billion.[2]

The average Christian fertility rate is 2.7 children per woman, which is higher than the global average fertility rate of 2.5. Globally, Christians were only slightly older (median age of 30) than the global median age of 28 in 2010. According to Pew Research religious switching is projected to have a modest impact on changes in the Christian population.[3] According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, approximately 2.7 million convert to Christianity annually from another religion; World Christian Encyclopedia also stated that Christianity ranks in first place in net gains through religious conversion.[4] While, according "The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion" between 1990-2000, approximately 1.9 million people converted to Christianity from another religion, with Christianity ranking first in net gains through religious conversion.[5] According to "The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion", in mid-2005 approximately 15.5 million convert to Christianity from another religion, approximately 11.7 million leave Christianity, and most of them become irreligious, resulting in a net gain of 3.8 million.[6] Christianity adds about 65.1 million people due to factors such as birth rate and religious conversion, while losing 27.4 million people due to factors such as death rate and religious apostasy in mid-2005. Most of the net growth in the numbers of Christians is in Africa, Latin America and Asia.[6]

Bisha frroku (talk) 19:20, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Simple Error - Incorrect Order
In this section, UK and Canada should be swapped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Sikhism — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apollo reactor (talk • contribs) 18:44, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 November 2020 (2)
92.238.33.56 (talk) 19:26, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 22 November 2020
How Many of Jehovah’s Witnesses Are There Worldwide? 2019 Report Number of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide = 8,683,117 Congregations = 119,712 Lands where Jehovah’s Witnesses preach = 240 Source of information: - https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/how-many-jw/ This figures should be included among the total number of christians in the world. 105.112.187.203 (talk) 14:24, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Already done The figures in the article already refer to totals of all variations/denominations of the major religions. --Paul &#10092;talk&#10093; 16:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 November 2020
Best religion page should be edited on behalf of which religion provide the most scientific and accurate knowledge and which spread peace among the world. evaluation should be done on the basis of knowledge and not on the basis of most populus religion. I think christianity and hinduism should top this list together because christianity and hinduism spread peace without any violence and hinduism provided the scientific knowledge years ago which are now being discovered by our scientist .. Hope you wil definitely review it Ramanandi (talk) 10:19, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 3 December 2020
2402:8100:21D1:686A:0:0:2DA8:DF7E (talk) 04:46, 3 December 2020 (UTC) Why didn't you wrote about Sikhism? Why did you only mentioned about other religion. Do mention about Sikhism it is one of the most important religion in the whole world. Did you get it
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 * Pictogram voting comment.svg Note: There is a section on Sikhism. --Paul &#10092;talk&#10093; 16:03, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Question
I'm just talking world religion christian 2.4 or 2.2 or 2.1. i thing all different. Thank u Marcellx01 (talk) 10:16, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Total number of adherents
Should be 8,024,800,000 according to EXCEL — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.230.85.239 (talk) 04:13, 6 February 2021 (UTC)