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Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of ...
Every religious group grew in count in the Middle East and North Africa – a Muslim-majority region – between 2010 and 2020, ...
Hindus, Muslims and the unaffiliated each make up about a quarter or more of the Asia-Pacific population. These groups all ...
Read how demographic factors – age composition, life expectancy and fertility rates – and religious switching changed the ...
Jewish people make up 0.2% of the world population. Jews rose in number by 6% from 2010 to 2020, mostly due to growth in ...
Read how Pew Research Center revised our estimates to reflect methodological advances, incorporate newly available data, and ...
Most people in sub-Saharan Africa are Christian. Christians and Muslims grew rapidly in number in the region from 2010 to ...
Christians are still a majority in Europe but disaffiliation thinned the Christian population from 2010 to 2020, according to ...
Baha’is, Jains, Sikhs, Daoists and other groups that Pew Research Center classified as "other religions" combined – grew ...
Hindus are the fourth-largest religious category in the world. Nearly all Hindus live in the Asia-Pacific region, with about ...
Buddhism is the only major religion that declined in number globally between 2010 and 2020, mostly due to religious ...
The religiously unaffiliated population is the world’s third-largest religious category and grew the second-fastest between ...