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The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups, though this is not a uniform practice. This theory began in the 18th century with the goal of recognizing the relative degrees of civility in different societies, [2] but this concept of a ranking order has since fallen into disrepute in many contemporary cultures.
World religions is a category used in the study of religion to demarcate at least five—and in some cases more—religions that are deemed to have been especially large, internationally widespread, or influential in the development of Western society.
[1] [2] According to the annual directory of the Catholic Church or Annuario Pontificio of 2024, there were 1.390 billion baptized Catholics in 2022. [7] [8] [9] In 2024, the World Christian Database reported 1.278 billion Catholics. [1]
As of 2009, the average birth rate (unclear whether this is the weighted average rate per country [with each country getting a weight of 1], or the unweighted average of the entire world population) for the whole world is 19.95 per year per 1000 total population, a 0.48% decline from 2003's world birth rate of 20.43 per 1000 total population.
14 September – The 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions begins in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. [18] 18 December – An election takes place to choose the Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus. [19] 31 December – Pope Benedict XVI, who served from 2005 to 2013 as head of the Catholic Church, dies at age 95. [20]
In 2017, the United States ranked 28 th among the world’s highest rates of gun death, with 4.43 per 100,000 people. The countries that ranked higher, including El Salvador, Venezuela, Guatemala ...
August 2022) The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.