<span style='color:red'>Global Patterns of Religious Following </span>
(Sensus of 2001)
India-based/originated faiths all around the globe:
Hindus total: 780,547,000 - 13.65% global
Vaishnavite Hindus: (70%) 546,383,000 (9.56% of world population)
Shaivite Hindus: (25%) 195,137,000 (3.41% of world population)
neo / reform Hindus: (2%) 15,611,000 (0.27% of world population)
Buddhism total: 323,894,000 - 5.67% global
Mahayana Buddhism: 56% 181,380,000 (3.17 % of world population)
Theravada Buddhism: 38% 123,080,000 (2.15 % of world population)
Tantrayana Buddhism: 6% 19,434,000 (0.35 % of world population)
Jain: 4,886,000 (0.09 % of world population)
Sikh: 19,161,000 (0.34% of world population)
Parsee (Zoroastrian): 189,000 (0.00 % of world population)
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>No religious group even comes close to enjoying a global majority.</span> The largest single group, comprising all the various Christian sects, is outnumbered two-to-one by non-Christians worldwide.
Christians vastly outnumber non-Christians in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. <span style='color:blue'>In Asia, however, where the majority of the world's population resides, non-Christians outnumber Christians more than ten-to-one.</span>
Muslims are the second-largest religious group, and Hindus the fourth-largest. <span style='color:blue'>The Muslim population is perhaps the most evenly distributed about the globe, whereas 99 percent of the world's Hindu population is concentrated in southern Asia.</span>
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The third-largest group, making up almost one fifth of the world's population, comprises unbelievers and disbelievers.</span> Secularists make up about 1/3 of Asians, 1/5 of Europeans, 1/8 of the population of Oceania, and 1/10 of people in the U.S. and Canada. They are most outnumbered in Africa and Latin America.
Though a minority in the U.S., Roman Catholics account for fully half of all Christians worldwide, Protestants and Anglicans together for only about a quarter.
Roman Catholics are the world's largest individual religious sect, yet they are slightly outnumbered by secularists.
Spiritual non-theists â e.g., Buddhists, Confucians, spiritists, etc. â number about twice those who classify themselves as atheists. If this number is added to the number of secularists, we find that the number of people who do not believe in a god in the conventional sense of the term make up between one fourth and one third of the world's population. Spiritual and secular non-theists together number more than any single theistic group except Christians.
(Sensus of 2001)
India-based/originated faiths all around the globe:
Hindus total: 780,547,000 - 13.65% global
Vaishnavite Hindus: (70%) 546,383,000 (9.56% of world population)
Shaivite Hindus: (25%) 195,137,000 (3.41% of world population)
neo / reform Hindus: (2%) 15,611,000 (0.27% of world population)
Buddhism total: 323,894,000 - 5.67% global
Mahayana Buddhism: 56% 181,380,000 (3.17 % of world population)
Theravada Buddhism: 38% 123,080,000 (2.15 % of world population)
Tantrayana Buddhism: 6% 19,434,000 (0.35 % of world population)
Jain: 4,886,000 (0.09 % of world population)
Sikh: 19,161,000 (0.34% of world population)
Parsee (Zoroastrian): 189,000 (0.00 % of world population)
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>No religious group even comes close to enjoying a global majority.</span> The largest single group, comprising all the various Christian sects, is outnumbered two-to-one by non-Christians worldwide.
Christians vastly outnumber non-Christians in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. <span style='color:blue'>In Asia, however, where the majority of the world's population resides, non-Christians outnumber Christians more than ten-to-one.</span>
Muslims are the second-largest religious group, and Hindus the fourth-largest. <span style='color:blue'>The Muslim population is perhaps the most evenly distributed about the globe, whereas 99 percent of the world's Hindu population is concentrated in southern Asia.</span>
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The third-largest group, making up almost one fifth of the world's population, comprises unbelievers and disbelievers.</span> Secularists make up about 1/3 of Asians, 1/5 of Europeans, 1/8 of the population of Oceania, and 1/10 of people in the U.S. and Canada. They are most outnumbered in Africa and Latin America.
Though a minority in the U.S., Roman Catholics account for fully half of all Christians worldwide, Protestants and Anglicans together for only about a quarter.
Roman Catholics are the world's largest individual religious sect, yet they are slightly outnumbered by secularists.
Spiritual non-theists â e.g., Buddhists, Confucians, spiritists, etc. â number about twice those who classify themselves as atheists. If this number is added to the number of secularists, we find that the number of people who do not believe in a god in the conventional sense of the term make up between one fourth and one third of the world's population. Spiritual and secular non-theists together number more than any single theistic group except Christians.