Religion In The World Map

Over the last few thousand years these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory of the human race.

Religion in the world map. Israel is the world s only majority jewish state 75 with 18 muslim. To see the full resolution version just click on it. In indian culture different religious philosophies were traditionally respected as academic differences in pursuit of the same truth. Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world after christianity and islam.

The great majority of these fall under twelve classical religions baha i buddhism christianity confucianism hinduism islam jainism judaism shinto sikhism taoism and zoroastrianism. The world s faithful account for 83 of the global population. Through countless conflicts conquests missions abroad and simple word of mouth these religions spread around the globe and forever molded the huge geographic regions in their paths. World religion map abstract.

Along with christianity 31 5 and islam 23 2 hinduism is one of the three major religions of the world by percentage of population. Most hindus are found in asian countries. There are several other areas where the same divide affects the message of the map. A global poll informs that 59 world population is religious 23 are not religious and 13 are atheists.

The map of africa and is dominated by the world s two largest religions. There are many smaller or less well known religions. For example thailand is colored red to indicate most thai people 93 2 identify with buddhism. An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing christians buddhists hindus mohammedans and pagans.

On the map each country of the world is assigned a color based on the religious group that has the most followers in the population. The incredibly detailed map of the world s religions above was created by reddit user scolbert08. Presently india and nepal are the two hindu majority countries. The west bank shown.

World religion data in this dataset is from the world religion database the map shows the percentage of the majority religion by provinces states and also included in the database is christian percentage by provinces states. For example kenya is over 80 christian and chad is 45 christian while on the map kenya seem 50 50 i know the area is less populated but still and chad seem 95 muslim. Hinduism buddhism christianity judaism and islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. It shows what the biggest religion is by census area in each country along with its level of support.

In world cultures there have traditionally been many different groupings of religious belief. These twelve religions are the most prominent spiritual traditions that still exist.