Countries_by_percentage_of_adherents_to_Hinduism

Hinduism has approximately 1.2 billion adherents worldwide (15-16% of the world's population). Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world behind Christianity (31.5%) and

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(23.3%).Table: Religious Composition (%) by Country
Global Religious Composition, Pew Research Center (2012) Most Hindus are found in Asian countries, and the majority of India and Nepal are Hindus. Countries with more than 500,000 Hindu residents and citizens are (in decreasing order) India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia (with

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being 87% Hindu), Pakistan,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, the United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom,

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, Mauritius, South Africa, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates. There are significant numbers of Hindu enclaves around the world, with many in Canada,

and New Zealand. Hinduism is also practiced by the non- Indic people including the Balinese of

island ( Indonesia), Tengger and

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of Java (Indonesia), the Balamon Chams of Vietnam, and

Ghanaian Hindus Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

in Ghana.

Background

Hinduism is a heterogeneous religion and consists of many schools of thought. Hinduism has no traditional religious order, centralized authority, governing body, or prophets; Hindus can be polytheistic, monotheistic, pantheistic, monistic, agnostic, humanist, or atheistic. Estimates of Hinduism by country reflect this diversity of thought and way of life.

Demographic estimates

Demographic estimates of

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

populations by country have been published by the Pew Research Center in 2012,Hindu population totals in 2010 by Country
Pew Research, Washington DC (2012) as well as US State Department's ''International Religious Freedom Report 2006. By total number, India has the most Hindus. As a percentage, Nepal has the largest percentage of Hindus in the world followed by India and Mauritius. The Hindu population around the world as of 2020 is about 1.2 billion (making it the world's third-largest religion after Christianity and Islam), of which nearly around 1.1 billion Hindus live in India. As per a statistical study, there are an estimated 100 million Hindus who live outside of India. In 2010, only two countries in the world had a majority of its population as Hindus – Nepal and India. On Mauritius, 48.14 percent of the population were Hindu, according to the 2015 census. Bangladesh, Indonesia,

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

, Bhutan,

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...

, Trinidad and Tobago, and

have very large and influential Hindu minorities.

By country

Sources used for the table below include the US State Department, the

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, adherents.com,

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. and as identified.

By region

These percentages were calculated by using the above numbers. The first percentage, in the 4th column, is the percentage of the population that is Hindu in a specific region (Hindus in the region * 100/total population of the region). The last column shows the Hindu percentage compared to the total Hindu population of the world (Hindus in the region * 100/total Hindu population of the world). ''(Note: Egypt, Sudan, and other Arab Maghreb countries are counted as part of North Africa, not the Middle East).''

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