Most religions, excluding Christianity, do not keep records of the number of followers. And even within Christianity there are differing ways of keeping count. Catholics will include everyone who has ever been baptized in a Catholic church, while most Protestant denomination count by actual church attendance.

To make matters worse, oriental religions tend to blur at the edges of what they believe, so it is very possible that a person can be counted in more than one category. One can be grouped as both a Buddhist and a Shintoist in Japan, while in China, one can be a Confucian, a Taoist and a Buddhist all at once.

Given these caveats, here's what the worldwide scorecard looks like.

Christianity at about 1,955,229,000 members. This breaks down like so:
Roman Catholics : 981,465,000
Protestants : 404,020,000
Orthodox : 218,350,000
Anglicans : 69,136,000
Other Christians : 282,258,000
Strangely enough, if you count it as religion, atheism is #2 at 1,782,809,000.
Muslims come in a decent third at 1,126,325,000 (83% Sunnis, 16% Shi'ites, 1% other).

The rest of the list:
Hindus : 793,075,000
Buddhists : 325,275,000
Sikhs : 19,508,000
Jews : 13,968,000
Baha'is : 6,404,000
Confucians : 5,086,000
Jains : 4,620,000
Shintoists : 2,897,500

http://lovetinz.com/thread-500.html

Lovetinz:
Most religions, excluding Christianity, do not keep records of the number of followers. And even within Christianity there are differing ways of keeping count. Catholics will include everyone who has ever been baptized in a Catholic church, while most Protestant denomination count by actual church attendance.

To make matters worse, oriental religions tend to blur at the edges of what they believe, so it is very possible that a person can be counted in more than one category. One can be grouped as both a Buddhist and a Shintoist in Japan, while in China, one can be a Confucian, a Taoist and a Buddhist all at once.

Given these caveats, here's what the worldwide scorecard looks like.

Christianity at about 1,955,229,000 members. This breaks down like so:
Roman Catholics : 981,465,000
Protestants : 404,020,000
Orthodox : 218,350,000
Anglicans : 69,136,000
Other Christians : 282,258,000
Strangely enough, if you count it as religion, atheism is #2 at 1,782,809,000.
Muslims come in a decent third at 1,126,325,000 (83% Sunnis, 16% Shi'ites, 1% other).

The rest of the list:
Hindus : 793,075,000
Buddhists : 325,275,000
Sikhs : 19,508,000
Jews : 13,968,000
Baha'is : 6,404,000
Confucians : 5,086,000
Jains : 4,620,000
Shintoists : 2,897,500

http://lovetinz.com/thread-500.html

Hmmm...

The most popular religion is MONEYISM which means the worship money with 95% of the world population followers

Good to know

You seem to be looking at measures of the most commonly held religion. If you really meant most popular, you should look at how popular a religion is with people who are not members of it, but have positive or negative feelings about it.

which year is this.your statistics is outdated

tartar9:
which year is this.your statistics is outdated

so which one is d latest?

Lots of souls for hell. Father keeps winning..

Donfamous:
so which one is d latest?

go ask google

tartar9:
go ask google

u're confused

Donfamous:
u're confused

guy,world population have increased by more than 1billion since when you bringing this decade old statistics.

tartar9:
guy,world population have increased by more than 1billion since when you bringing this decade old statistics.

now I understand