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Hindus, Muslims and the unaffiliated each make up about a quarter or more of the Asia-Pacific population. These groups all grew there from 2010-2020.

This section describes the methods used to estimate religious composition at the country level, regionally and globally; our procedures for measuring religious groups’ demographic characteristics and their religious “switching” rates; as well as methodological challenges that we considered in some countries. The final section lists the 201 countries and territories that make up each of […]

Most people in the Latin America-Caribbean region are Christian. The region’s unaffiliated population grew rapidly since 2010.

The religiously unaffiliated population is the world’s third-largest religious category and grew the second-fastest between 2010 and 2020.

Hindus are the fourth-largest religious category in the world. Nearly all Hindus live in the Asia-Pacific region, with about 95% living in India alone.