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Apart from Christianity and Islam, what are the other major religions?

Answered by . April 19, 2011 - 12:20 pm

Apart from Christianity and Islam (which, respectively,  rank 1st at 2.1 billion, and 2nd at 1.5 billion adherants), these are the world’s major religions ranked by number of adherants (according to this site):

  1. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
  2. Hinduism: 900 million
  3. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
  4. Buddhism: 376 million
  5. primal-indigenous: 300 million
  6. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
  7. Sikhism: 23 million
  8. Juche: 19 million
  9. Spiritism: 15 million
  10. Judaism: 14 million
  11. Baha’i: 7 million
  12. Jainism: 4.2 million
  13. Shinto: 4 million
  14. Cao Dai: 4 million
  15. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
  16. Tenrikyo: 2 million
  17. Neo-Paganism: 1 million
  18. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
  19. Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
  20. Scientology: 500 thousand

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