The Global Religious Landscape

(Pew Research Report)
A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Major Religious Groups as of 2010

Executive Summary

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• Geographic Distribution
• Living as Majorities and Minorities
• Young and Old
• About the Study
• Defining the Religious Groups
• Roadmap to the Report

Worldwide, more than eight-in-ten people identify with a religious group. A comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe, representing 84% of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.  MORE