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Religion in Poland is rapidly declining, although historically it had been one of the most Catholic countries in the world. [2]According to a 2018 report by the Pew Research Center, the nation was the most rapidly secularizing of over a hundred countries measured, "as measured by the disparity between the religiosity of young people and their elders."
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.
Protestantism in Poland is the third largest faith in Poland, after the Roman Catholic Church (32,440,722) and the Polish Orthodox Church (503,996). [1] As of 2018 there were 103 registered Protestant denominations in Poland, [2] and in 2023 there were 130,000 Protestants in the country (0.35% of the population).
A Pew Research Center Study shows that 10% of all Europeans could be members of the Muslim faith by 2050.
Buddhism is thinly spread throughout Europe, and the fastest growing religion in recent years [114] [115] with about 3 million adherents. [ 116 ] [ 117 ] In Kalmykia , Tibetan Buddhism is prevalent.
According to scholar Ladan Boroumand "Iran [as of 2020 was] witnessing the highest rate of Christianization in the world", [162] and according to scholar Shay Khatiri of Johns Hopkins University "Islam is the fastest shrinking religion in there [Iran], while Christianity is growing the fastest", [163] and in 2018 "up to half a million Iranians ...
Hinduism is a growing religion in countries such as Ghana, [292] Russia, [293] and the United States. [294] [295] According to 2011 census, Hinduism has become the fastest-growing religion in Australia since 2006, [296] due to migration from India and Fiji. [297] Generally, the term "conversion" is not applicable to Hindu traditions.
Apart from the traditional Tatar communities, since the 1960’s Poland has also been home to a small, immigrant Muslim community. In the 1960’s and 1970’s Poland attracted a number of immigrants from many socialist-friendly Arabic-speaking Muslim states of the Middle East and North Africa. Some of them decided to stay in Poland.