World Population 2024 Religion Wise. The 2024 revision also presents population projections to the year 2100 that reflect a range of plausible outcomes at the global, regional and national levels. India, labeled as the world's spiritual homeland, perhaps due to its rich religious history including the birth of major world religions like hinduism, buddhism, jainism, and sikhism, leads the.
As of 2023, christianity was by far the worldโs largest religion, with an estimated 2.38 billion adherents, nearly a third (31.1%) of all 7.66 billion people on earth. Other major religious groups in india are christians (2.3%), sikhs (1.9%), buddhists (0.8%) and jains (0.4%).