5. Hindu population change
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.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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.
Read how Pew Research Center revised our estimates to reflect methodological advances, incorporate newly available data, and allow comparison across measures in this report.
Muslims account for 29% of global migrants and most commonly live in the Middle-East North Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.
For each destination country, this Appendix tabulates the methods of deriving the religious composition of migrant stocks from various origin countries. We only estimate the religious composition of origin-destination country pairs that appear in the United Nations’ migrant stock database. For example, for Afghanistan, the UN only provides estimates of the number of migrants from […]
Read our deep-dive on religious migration trends in Europe, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, India and the United States.
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Majorities in most countries say the U.S. does not promote peace and stability or consider other countries’ interests on policy matters.
As of 2020, Muslims made up a majority of Nigeria’s total population (56.1%), while Christians made up 43.4%.
The number of countries with high or very high social hostilities rose for the third year in a row; government interference in worship also increased.
People in 12 of 24 nations surveyed tend to say the U.S. is their top ally. But it’s also widely seen as a top threat, as are Russia and China.
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