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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.
Polish-Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland – 0.02 million [328] Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany – 0.02 million [329] [330] Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands – 0.01 million [331] Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland – 0.01 million [332] Old Catholic Church of Austria – 0.005 million [333]
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.
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).
According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Hinduism (1.52%) is one of the six fastest-growing religions in the world, with high birth rates in India being cited as the major reasons of the Hindu population growth. [291] Hinduism is a growing religion in countries such as Ghana, [292] Russia, [293] and the United States.
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Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest and fastest growing major religious grouping, maintaining suggested 2017 projections in 2022. [2] [3] As of 2020, Pew Research Centre (PEW) projections suggest there are a total of 1.9 billion adherents worldwide.