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Religions

Preponderant religions

  Dominant religion in each country, combined with the importance of religion in social life.

 

 

World distribution of religions

Links to maps of distribution of major religions

The Chinese religions are not included, because its range is limited almost exclusively to China, and especially because the statistics on religion in this country are very uncertain.

    % world population
Main divisions
  Christianity
33 %
Catholic, Protestant,Orthodox.
  Islam
20 %
Shiite, Sunni
  Induism
13 %
** It is a very open set of beliefs.
  Budhism
6 %
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