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The Afghan Sikh population declined from between 200,000 and 500,000 (1.8% to 4.6% of the Afghan population) ... the largest municipal Sikh population in the world. ...
Estimates of their total population (there has been no census in Afghanistan since 1979) have been given as around 1,200 families or 8,000 members in 2013; [16] 1,000 in 2019 (as reported by Afghan Sikh Wolesi Jirga member Narinder Singh Khalsa); and around 70 to 80 families or 700 in 2020 (as reported by Raj Sutaka, a Sikh businessman from ...
The Sikh homeland is the Punjab state, in India, where Sikhs make up approximately 58% of the population. This is the only place where Sikhs are in the majority. Sikhs have emigrated to countries all over the world – especially to English-speaking and East Asian nations.
Millions of Sikhs fled to freedom and safety in East Punjab; smaller numbers also fled to Afghanistan. [12] In the 1960s and beyond, many Sikhs migrated to the UK and North America in search of economic opportunities. Some of the Sikhs who had settled in eastern Africa were expelled by Ugandan leader Idi Amin in 1972. [13]
As per the 2017 data, more than 99% of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus have left the country in the last 3 decades. [72] Many of Afghan Hindus and Sikhs have been settled in Germany, France, United States, Australia, India, Belgium, the Netherlands and other nations. [4] The Afghan Hindu population declined to approximately 50 in 2020. [4]
“Winter is when hunger bites hardest in Afghanistan and WFP expects nearly 15 million people or nearly a third of the population of Afghanistan to be in need of food assistance for survival ...
In 2010, South Asia had the world's largest population of Hindus, [1] about 510 million Muslims, [1] over 27 million Sikhs, 35 million Christians and over 25 million Buddhists. [2] Hindus make up about 68 percent or about 900 million and Muslims at 31 percent or 510 million of the overall South Asia population, [ 3 ] while Buddhists, Jains ...
With 25–30 millions, Sikhs represent less than 0.3% of the total world population in 2021. [94] Many countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, recognize Sikhs as a designated religion on their censuses [ 95 ] and, as of 2020, Sikhs are considered as a separate ethnic group in the United States. [ 96 ]