Religions In The World Map

The polygons are mainly from natural earth ne 10m admin 1 states provinces shp dated 8 august 2011 which had 3 560 polygons.

Religions in the world map. Hinduism buddhism christianity judaism and islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. These twelve religions are the most prominent spiritual traditions that still exist. The incredibly detailed map of the world s religions above was created by reddit user scolbert08. This map of world religion throws light on different religions being followed in the world.

It shows what the biggest religion is by census area in each country along with its level of support. Nepal 81 3 and india 79 8 are countries with hindus being the majority of their respective populations. An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing christians buddhists hindus mohammedans and pagans. Sikhs are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are and they remain primarily an ethnic religion.

There are many smaller or less well known religions. The great majority of these fall under twelve classical religions baha i buddhism christianity confucianism hinduism islam jainism judaism shinto sikhism taoism and zoroastrianism. A global poll informs that 59 world population is religious 23 are not religious and 13 are atheists. Along with christianity 31 5 and islam 23 2 hinduism is one of the three major religions of the world by percentage of population.

Israel is the world s only majority jewish state 75 with 18 muslim. Spiritism cuba 10 3 jamaica 10 2 brazil 4 8 suriname 3 6. In indian culture different religious philosophies were traditionally respected as academic differences in pursuit of the same truth. To see the full resolution version just click on it.

Another important thing to note is that while christianity is divided between catholicism. Hinduism has approximately 1 2 billion adherents worldwide 15 of world s population. The map of africa and is dominated by the world s two largest religions. 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 in large parts of british columbia the most common answer on the census is no religion but the intensity of that feeling varies widely. 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. However due to how much or how little different religions are represented in different communities. In world cultures there have traditionally been many different groupings of religious belief.

But they can be found in many international cities and have become an especially strong religious presence in the united kingdom and canada. The map features brief descriptions of each religious grouping and bar graphs that reflect the percentage of a country s population associated with each grouping. 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. Boundaries are based on natural earth august 2011 modified to match provinces in the world religion database.