Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.The gunman held many of the worshippers hostage for several hours as Afghan special forces, helped by international troops, tried to clear the building. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. However, this source gives a relative indication of the size of the Spiritist communities within each country. Note that all these estimates come from a single source. But they can be found in many international cities and have become an especially strong religious presence in the United Kingdom and Canada. Sikhs are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. In doing so they have retained, to an unusually high degree, their distinctive cultural and religious identity. Sikhs have emigrated to countries all over the world – especially to English-speaking and East Asian nations. This is the only place where Sikhs are in the majority. The Sikh homeland is the Punjab state, in India, where today Sikhs make up approximately 58% of the population. Due to the syncretic nature of these religions, the following numbers may not reflect the actual number of practitioners.Ĭountries with the greatest proportion of Sikhs: Department of State 2009 International Religious Freedom Report, based on the highest estimate of people identified as indigenous or followers of indigenous religions that have been well-defined. Ethnic and indigenousĪll of the below come from the U.S. The Chinese traditional religion has 184,000 believers in Latin America, 250,000 believers in Europe, and 839,000 believers in North America as of 1998. Nonetheless, Taoist ideas and symbols such as Taijitu have become popular throughout the world through Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, and various martial arts. Despite the popularity of its great classics the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching, the specific practices of Taoism have not been promulgated in America with much success these religions are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of bigger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. Taoists/Confucianists/Chinese traditional religionistsĪs a spiritual practice, Taoism has made fewer inroads in the West than Buddhism and Hinduism. See Spiritual but not religious.Ĭountries with the greatest proportion of Hindus from Hinduism by country (as of 2010 ): Thus, over half of this group is theistic and/or influenced by religious principles, but nonreligious/non-practicing and not true atheists or agnostics. Additionally, the practice of officially associating a family or household with a religious institute while not formally practicing the affiliated religion is common in many countries. Some religions have harmonized with local cultures and can be seen as a cultural background rather than a formal religion. It does not necessarily mean that members of this group don't belong to any religion. Irreligious includes agnostic, atheist, secular believer, and people having no formal religious adherence. Remarks: Ranked by mean estimate which is in brackets. Nonreligious population by country, 2010. Philippines 90% (mostly Roman Catholic).Croatia 91.1% (mostly Roman Catholic).Papua New Guinea 94.8% (mostly Protestant).Federated States of Micronesia ~96% (mostly Protestant).El Salvador 96.4% (mostly Roman Catholic).Paraguay 96.9% (mostly Roman Catholic).Marshall Islands 97.2% (mostly Protestant).American Samoa 98.3% (mostly Protestant).Armenia 98.5% (96% Armenian Orthodox Apostolic).East Timor 99.6% (mostly Roman Catholic).Pitcairn Islands 100% (100% Seventh-day Adventist).Vatican City 100% (100% Roman Catholic).Christian population percentage by country, June 2014.
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