Global distribution of religions, by region 2022

In 2022, 99 percent of Hindus and Buddhists worldwide lived in Asia-Pacific. In comparison, 43 percent of Jews lived in North America, and 45.4 percent lived in the Middle East and North Africa. Christians were more evenly divided around the continents.

Global distribution of religions in 2022, by region

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Release date

August 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

Overview - Based on the 2010 Pew Research Center report, GCS data and the selected metrics, an estimation of religions has been conducted for the period of 2011 to 2022 Approach - Over 200 countries from 6 different regions have been selected in order to identify their population's religions - The number of births, death, net migration, and fertility rate index data from 2011 onwards have been determiuned for christians, muslims, unaffiliated, hindus, buddhists, jews, folk and other religions KPIs used Population, Birth Rate, Death rate, Net Migration, Fertility rate index

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