Major religious groups

Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism are unquestionably the largest religions by far. However, most lists of major religions include Judaism and other religions who only number in the many millions because of their historic relevance.


Religious category ↓ Number of followers ↓


Christianity 2,100,000,000 – 2,200,000,000
Islam 1,300,000,000 – 1,600,000,000
Hinduism 950,000,000 – 1,400,000,000
Buddhism 250,000,000 – 500,000,000
Sikhism 20,000,000 - 30,000,000
Judaism 12,000,000 – 18,000,000
Bahá'í Faith 7,600,000 – 7,900,000
Jainism 6,000,000 – 12,000,000
Cheondoism 3,000,000
Tenrikyo 2,000,000
Cao Dai 1,000,000 - 3,000,000
Ahl-e Haqq 1,000,000
Seicho-no-Ie 800,000
Yazidism 700,000
Rastafari movement 700,000
Unitarian Universalism 630,000


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_religion

 

I wish rastafari was the number one religion and we could all smoke pot anywhere without prohibition. I would probably convert from attehism to rastafari if it involves smoking as a form of prayer.

 

This list is very incomplete.
For example, the Druze (1M-2M believers),Tenrikyo ... around 2M believers, even scientology with 100,000 followers deserve a place in this list of cults...and several others I can think of....

 

I am bit surprised that Sikhism is 5th largest.
And 3 of the largest 5 originated in India,
My ancestors had too much spare time on hand

The list is from wikipedia, Go ahead and make changes

 

Hehe. Wikipedia is awsome, I use it a lot for many kinds of different things.
Except for a small article in the Hebrew Wikipedia to which I bothered to contribute (it even involved taking picture...) unfortunately I did not make any meaningful contributions yet, too lazy.

 

Christianity is the largest religion in the world

 

Rastafarian are mostly in Africa I think

 

well does this really matter of religions and castes ? What's the additional benefit of being first or last ? Do we get cash or any incentive ?? no, rite these are just dividing us
I would like to see how many humanitarians are in each group if you want to really divide it

 

What's the diff. Just stay inside and don't be a heat score and the cops won't catch you.

 

I wish Islam grew more to overtake 1st Position soon

 

Islam will eventually become number one, and no one will notice, until Muslims start to think that it's a divine mandate to further spread their myths on other people fully comfortable with the myths they already have.

I want to see more members of the Bahá'í faith, mainly because of the Lotus Temple...I need to visit that place.

 

with no restriction of no.of children per family, Islam is def. going to shoot up in future, only non-muslim countries have brought some sort of restrictions, while in the muslim nations, its up to the budget of the family to have any number they want

I really hope, every one worship just one God, a god not allah r rama r jesus r any others
it will clear this discrimination and tension among people

 

Religion! CRAP!

Its outdated...

You make sense, I will talk to you.
I don't give a damn to what religion/race/nation/color/caste/......... you belong to.

 

These figures are dumb. They really don't make sense, as mdvasanth says as well.

Does it really matter if there are 3 more christians or 2 more muslims than buddhists or any other -ist?

What does it PROVE???!!

 

Dude.. If you see 50-100 People Die in Middle East due to suicide bombers.. the target goes up sometimes

 

If you dont give a damn... then why have you visited this topic and wasted your time in reading and typing