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Written by Raleigh Jones
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Friday, 09 October 2009 20:05 |
 | EveryThing Else According to wikipedia: Demographic distribution of the major super-groupings mentioned is shown in the table below (with number of followers estimates from Adherents.com for groups having such figures available there): | Name of Group | Name of Religion | Number of followers | Date of Origin | Main regions covered |
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Abrahamic religions
3.4 billion | Christianity | 2.1 billion | 1st c. | Worldwide except Northwest Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Central, East, and Southeast Asia. | | Islam | 1.5 billion | 7th c. | Middle East, Northern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, Western Africa, Indian subcontinent, Malay Archipelago with large population centers existing in Eastern Africa, Balkan Peninsula, Russia, Europe and China. | | Judaism | 14 million | 1300 BCE | Israel and among Jewish diaspora (live mostly in USA and Europe) | | Bahá'í Faith | 7 million | 19th c. | Dispersed worldwide with no major population centers | Indian religions
1.4 billion | Hinduism | 900 million | no founder | Indian subcontinent, Fiji, Guyana and Mauritius | | Buddhism | 376 million | Iron Age (1200–300 BCE) | Indian subcontinent, East Asia, Indochina, regions of Russia. | | Sikhism | 23 million | 15th c. | India, Pakistan, Africa, Canada, USA, United Kingdom | | Jainism | 4.2 million | Iron Age (1200–300 BCE) | India, and East Africa | Far Eastern religions
500 million | Taoism | unknown | Spring and Autumn Period (722 BC-481 BC) | China and the Chinese diaspora | | Confucianism | unknown | Spring and Autumn Period (722 BC-481 BC) | China, Korea, Vietnam and the Chinese and Vietnamese diasporas | | Shinto | 4 million | no founder | Japan | | Caodaism | 1-2 million | 1925 | Vietnam | | Chondogyo | 1.13 million | 1812 | Korea | | Yiguandao | 1-2 million | c. 1900 | Taiwan | | Chinese folk religion | 394 million | no founder, a combination of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism | China | Ethnic/tribal
400 million | | Primal indigenous | 300 million | no founder | India, Asia | | African traditional and diasporic | 100 million | no known founder | Africa, Americas | Other
each over 500 thousand | | Juche | 19 million | | North Korea | | Neopaganism | 1 million | | | | Unitarian-Universalism | 800,000 | | | | Rastafarianism | 600,000 | | | | Scientology | 500,000 | 1951 |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 October 2009 18:15 )
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