The five fastest growing religions in terms of absolute numbers (new adherents per year, in millions):
| 1. | Christianity | 25,210,195 |
| 2. | Islam | 22,588,676 |
| 3. | Hinduism | 12,533,734 |
| 4. | Chinese folk-religions | 3,715,548 |
| 5. | Buddhism | 3,687,527 |
The five fastest growing religions by conversions (new adherents per year, in millions):
| 1. | Christianity | 2,501,396 |
| 2. | Islam | 865,558 |
| 3. | Buddhism | 156,609 |
| 4. | Sikhism | 28,961 |
| 5. | Baha'is | 26,333 |
The CIA World Factbook is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States with almanac-style information - including demographics & faith statistics - about the 266 U.S. recognized countries of the world and a number of smaller areas. The Factbook only tabulate seven world religions. The numbers only differ slightly from the WCE and The Britannica Encyclopedia.
| Religion | size | % |
|---|---|---|
| Christianity | 2,234,770,118 | 33.32% |
| Islam | 1,409,139,261 | 21.01% |
| Hinduism | 889,347,292 | 13.26% |
| Buddhism | 391,688,400 | 5.84% |
| Sikhism | 23,474,476 | 0.35% |
| Judaism | 15,426,084 | 0.23% |
| Bahá'í | 8,048,392 | 0.12% |
| Other (incl. non-religious & atheists) | 1,735,099,128 | 25.87% |
| Total | 6,706,993,152 | 100% |
I thought it was “Jedi”
Truth is many christians are not christians nor are many muslims... “muslims”..
They were just born into some family of some religion..
They are wearing “masks”... disguises.. some with costumes.. maybe even provocateurs..
To be a Jew does not require you believe in anything..
Must be careful with statistics about who is what...
It can make your delusional.. even crazy..
The World’s Fastest Growing Religion (Either Christianity or Islam, Depending on Location)
What are the location choices besides earth?
It should also be noted that Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is horrified at the hemorrhaging loss of black Muslims in Africa who are converting in great numbers to Christianity, the bulk of which is (conservative) Anglicanism.
And this explosive growth came at a time when there was the schism in the Episcopalian Anglican church in the US, with churches leaving their Episcopalian dioceses and becoming African missionary churches attached to African Anglican dioceses. This meant a flood of donations to African dioceses and archdioceses to build hundreds of new churches.
In any event, the African bishops and archbishops are getting so many congregants that they are almost like the leaders of nations. And on the large scale, Africa is now subdividing into Muslim and Christian regions, the vast majority being Christian.