11. Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Most people in the Latin America-Caribbean region are Christian. The region’s unaffiliated population grew rapidly since 2010.
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Most people in the Latin America-Caribbean region are Christian. The region’s unaffiliated population grew rapidly since 2010.
Africa is the only world region where the fertility rate is currently higher than the global replacement-level fertility.
Baha’is, Jains, Sikhs, Daoists and other groups that Pew Research Center classified as “other religions” combined – grew globally by 12% from 2010 to 2020.
There are 135 cardinals who are eligible to vote in the coming papal election, and a plurality (40%) are from Europe. That’s down from 51% in 2013.
Majorities in the six countries surveyed believe in God, in life after death, and that spells, curses or other magic can influence people’s lives.
Growing numbers of Latin Americans are religiously unaffiliated, but belief in God remains high across the region.
The religiously unaffiliated population is the world’s third-largest religious category and grew the second-fastest between 2010 and 2020.
Christians remain the largest religious group. But they’re shrinking as a share of the global population, as many Christians are leaving religion altogether.
Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing and second-largest religious group. In the Middle East-North Africa region, they make up 94% of the population.
This appendix lists studied countries and territories by region. These regional categories were chosen to be consistent with our previous reports on the global demography of religion. The word “country” is used interchangeably with “countries and territories” in this report for the sake of brevity. We include countries and territories recognized as such by the […]
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