World Religious Population 2024. The demographic projections within this report are based on the current size and geographic distribution of the world’s major religions, as well as age differences, fertility. Although the number of people who follow a religion has decreased in recent decades, 82.8% of the global population still identifies with one of the world’s major.

Each nation contrives a unique religious fabric with their weave of faiths, making the study of religious populations by country an insightful endeavor. Generally speaking, buddhism, christianity, hinduism, islam, and judaism are considered the five major world religions, although sikhism, shintoism, or.