Hinduism has approximately 1.2 billion adherents worldwide (15% of the world's population).[1] Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world behind Christianity (31.5%) and Islam (23.3%).[2]
Percentage of Hindus by country, according to the Pew Research Center . Most Hindus live in Asian countries, and the majority of Nepal and India are Hindus, and a significant number in Mauritius . Countries with more than 500,000 Hindu residents and citizens are (in decreasing order) India , Nepal , Bangladesh , Indonesia (with Bali being 87% Hindu), Pakistan , Sri Lanka , the United States , Malaysia , United Kingdom , Myanmar , Australia , Mauritius , South Africa , Canada , and the United Arab Emirates .
There are significant numbers of Hindu enclaves around the world, with many in South Africa , Canada , Australia and New Zealand . Hinduism is also practiced by the non-Indic people including the Balinese of Bali island (Indonesia ), Tengger and Osing of Java (Indonesia), the Balamon Chams of Vietnam , and Ghanaian Hindus in Ghana .
Background Hinduism is a heterogeneous religion and consists of many schools of thought. Hinduism includes a diversity of ideas on spirituality and traditions, but has no ecclesiastical order, no unquestionable religious authorities, no governing body, no prophet(s) nor any binding holy book; Hindus can be polytheistic, monotheistic, pantheistic, monistic, agnostic, humanist, or atheistic.[3]
Demographic estimates Demographic estimates of Hindu populations by country have been published by the Pew Research Center in 2012,[4] International Religious Freedom Report 2006.[5]
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 .[6] Christianity and Islam , of which nearly 1.1 billion Hindus live in India.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Mauritius , 48.14 percent of the population were Hindu, according to the 2015 census.[13] Bangladesh , Indonesia , Pakistan , Fiji , Bhutan , Guyana , Suriname , Trinidad and Tobago , and Sri Lanka have very large and influential Hindu minorities.[weasel words [citation needed
By country Sources used for the table below include the US State Department,[5] CIA World Factbook ,[14] [15] [16] Pew Research Center .[17] [18]
Hinduism by country Region Country Hindu total Percentage Total population Census year South Asia Afghanistan <1,000(est) <0.01%[19] [20] 31,889,923 2017 North Africa Algeria 5,720 0.01%[21] 43,053,053 2019 Western Europe Andorra 300 - 400 0.4%[22] 60,000 >2012 Caribbean Anguilla 50 - 60 0.43%[23] 13,452 -NA- Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda 379 0.4%[24] 81,799 -NA- South America Argentina 4,000+ 0.01%[25] 40,301,927 -NA- Oceania Australia 684,000 2.7%[26] 23,401,400 2021 Central Europe Austria 11,000 0.1%[27] 8,900,000 Middle East Bahrain 7,000 – 144,286[note 1] <1%–9.8%[30] [note 1] 708,573 South Asia Bangladesh 14,300,000 8.54%[31] 167,000,000 2011 Caribbean Barbados 1,055 0.46%[32] 226,193 Western Europe Belgium 6,235 0.06%[33] 10,392,226 Central America and Caribbean Belize 612 0.2%[34] 294,385 South Asia Bhutan 185,700 22.6%–25%[35] [36] 742,737 Southern Africa Botswana 3,353 0.3%[37] 1,372,675 South America Brazil 5,675–9,500 0.0029%[38] 192,755,799 Southeast Asia Brunei 131 0.035%[39] 374,577 West Africa Burkina Faso 150 0.001%[citation needed 14,326,203 Central Africa Burundi 8,391 0.1%[40] [41] 8,390,505 Southeast Asia Cambodia 41,988 0.3%[42] [43] 13,995,904 North America Canada 828,200 2.3%[44] 36,990,141 2021 Central Europe Czech Republic 2,404 0.023%[45] 10,436,560 East Asia China 20,000[46] <0.1%[47] 1,412,600,000 South America Colombia 8,876 0.02%[48] 44,379,598 East Africa Comoros 711 0.1%(approx)[citation needed 711,417 Central Africa Congo (Kinshasa) 30,000[18] 0.18%[18] 65,751,512 Balkans Croatia 449 0.01% (approx)[49] 4,493,312 North America Cuba 23,927 0.21%[50] 11,394,043 West Africa Côte d'Ivoire 18,013 0.1%[51] [52] 18,013,409 Middle East Cyprus 4,640 0.4%[53] 1,160,987 2015 Western Europe Denmark 5,468 0.1%[54] [55] 5,468,120 East Africa Djibouti 99 0.02%[56] 496,374 Caribbean Dominica 145 0.2%[57] 72,386 North Africa Egypt 2,700 0.003%[58] 82,761,244 2010 East Africa Eritrea 4,907 0.1% (approx)[59] 4,906,585 Eastern Europe Estonia 295 0.027%[60] 1,094,564 Oceania Fiji 261,136 27.9%[61] [62] 935,974 Western Europe Finland 5,000 0.1%[63] 5,238,460 Western Europe France 121,000 0.2%[64] 63,718,187 Eastern Europe Georgia 465 0.01% (approx)[65] 4,646,003 Western Europe Germany 130,000 0.15% (approx)[66] 82,660,000 West Africa Ghana 12,500 0.05% (approx)[67] 22,931,299 Western Europe Gibraltar 628 2.0%[68] 32,194 Caribbean Grenada 630 0.7%[69] 89,971 Caribbean Guadeloupe 2,300 0.5%[70] 460,000 South America and Caribbean Guyana 190,966 24.9%[71] 769,095 Central Europe Hungary 1,767[72] 0.02% 9,956,108 South Asia India 1,053,000,000 79.8%[73] [74] [75] 1,320,000,000 (2011 Census ) Southeast Asia Indonesia 4,679,053[76] 1.71%[76] 273,873,000 2021 Middle East Iran 20,000[18] <0.1[18] 65,397,521 Western Europe Ireland 14,300 0.30%[77] 4,761,865 2016 Middle East Israel c. 500–1,4000.01%[78] 9,412,850 2020 Western Europe Italy 108,950 0.2% (approx)[79] 60,418,000 Caribbean Jamaica 1,836 0.07%[80] 2,780,132 East Asia Japan 30,000[18] <0.1[18] 127,433,494 Middle East Jordan 10,185 0.1[81] 10,185,500 2020 Central Asia Kazakhstan 1,878 0.01%[82] 18,632,000 2020 East Africa Kenya 60,000[18] 0.1%[18] 37,000,000 East Asia Korea, South 12,452 0.015% (approx) 49,044,790 Middle East Kuwait 300,667[note 2] 12%[84] 2,505,559 Eastern Europe Latvia 179 0.012%[85] 1,481,823 Middle East Lebanon 4,926 0.1% (approx)[86] 4,925,502 Eastern Europe Lithuania 344 0.01%[87] 2,561,000 Southern Africa Lesotho 2,125 0.1% (approx)[88] [89] 2,125,262 West Africa Liberia 3,196 0.1% (approx)[90] 3,195,931 North Africa Libya 6,037 0.1%[91] [92] 6,036,914 Western Europe Luxembourg 336 0.07% (approx)[93] 480,222 Southern Africa Madagascar 19,449 0.1%[94] [95] 19,448,815 Southern Africa Malawi 2,721 – 2,726 0.02%[96] [97] 13,603,181 Southeast Asia Malaysia 1,949,850 6.3%[98] [99] 30,949,962 Caribbean Martinique 1,317 0.3%[100] 439,202 South Asia Maldives 37 0.01%[101] 369,031 Southern Africa Mauritius 670,000 50.63%[102] [103] 1,266,000 2020 Eastern Europe Moldova 433 0.01% (approx)[104] 3,200,000 North Africa Morocco 200 0.0006[105] 32,781,860 2011 Southern Africa Mozambique 10,453 – 41,811 0.05%[106] [107] 20,905,585 Southeast Asia Myanmar 252,763[108] 0.5%[109] 50,279,900[110] 2014 South Asia Nepal 23,677,744 81.19%[111] 29,164,578[112] 2021 Western Europe Netherlands 96,110 – 200,000 0.58%[113] [114] 16,570,613 Oceania New Zealand 123,534 2.63%[115] 4,115,771 Western Europe Norway 23,140 0.5% 4,627,926 Middle East Oman 96,147 – 182,679 3%[116] [117] 3,204,897 South Asia Pakistan 4,444,870 2.14%[118] 196,000,000 2017 Central America Panama 9,726 0.3%[119] [120] 3,242,173 Southeast Asia Philippines 30,634[15] <0.1%[15] 102,000,000[121] Western Europe Portugal 7,396 0.07% 10,642,836 Central Europe Poland 2,421 0.008%[122] 30,575,000 Caribbean Puerto Rico 3,550 0.09%[123] 3,944,259 Middle East Qatar 422,118 15.1%[124] 2,795,484[125] 2020 East Africa Réunion 55,409 6.7%[126] 927,000 Eastern Europe Russia 143,000 0.1%[127] 141,377,752 Oceania Samoa 38 0.02% (approx) 187,429 Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis 860 1.82%[128] 47,195 2011 Middle East Saudi Arabia 303,611[note 3] 0.6%[130] [131] 27,601,038 East Africa Seychelles 5,508 5.4%[132] [133] 102,812 2022 West Africa Sierra Leone 2,458 – 6,145 0.04%[134] [135] 6,144,562 Southeast Asia Singapore 280,000 5.0%[136] [137] 5,600,000 2011 Central Europe Slovakia 5,448 0.1% (approx)[citation needed 5,447,502 Central Europe Slovenia 500 0.025% (approx)[citation needed 2,009,245 Eastern Africa Somalia 8,278 0.06%[138] 13,797,204 2015 Southern Africa South Africa 505,000 0.9%[139] [18] 49,991,300 South Asia Sri Lanka 2,671,000 12.6%[140] 21,200,000 2011 South America and Caribbean Suriname 120,623 – 128,995 22.3%[141] [142] 470,784 Southern Africa Eswatini 1,700 – 2,266 0.15%[143] [144] 1,133,066 Western Europe Sweden 7,044 – 10,837 0.078% – 0.12%[145] 9,031,088 Western Europe Switzerland 28,708-50,000[146] [147] 0.38%[148] [149] [150] 7,554,661 East Africa Tanzania 50,000[151] 0.11%[151] 39,384,223 Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago 240,100 18.2%[152] [153] [154] 1,056,608 2011 Southeast Asia Thailand 65,000 0.1%[155] 65,068,149 Oceania Tonga 100 0.1%[156] 103,043 North Africa Tunisia 120 0.001%[157] 11,303,942 2016 Middle East Turkey 300 0.00035%-0.001% 84,339,067 Eastern Europe Ukraine 42,386 0.1%[158] 42,386,400 East Africa Uganda 100,000[47] 0.3%[47] 38,225,447 Middle East United Arab Emirates 490,000[note 4] 5 - 20%[160] 9,682,000 Western Europe United Kingdom 1,020,000 1.7%[161] [162] 60,776,238 2017 North America United States 3,338,210 1.0%[163] 332,000,000 2020 Caribbean United States Virgin Islands 528 1.9%[164] 28,054 Central Asia Uzbekistan 2,778 0.01% (approx)[citation needed 27,780,059 Southeast Asia Vietnam 70,000 0.07% 85,262,356 Middle East Yemen 155,614 0.7%[165] 22,230,531 Southern Africa Zambia 16,068 0.14%[166] [167] 11,477,447 Southern Africa Zimbabwe 3,000 0.02% 12,311,143 Total 1,100,000,000 - 1,120,000,000 15%[1] 7,500,000,000
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 ).
Hinduism in Africa Region Total Population Hindus % of Hindus % of Hindu total Central Africa 193,121,055 N/A N/A N/A East Africa 193,741,900 667,694 0.345% 0.071% North Africa 202,151,323 5,765 0.003% 0.001% Southern Africa 137,092,019 1,269,844 0.926% 0.135% West Africa 268,997,245 70,402 0.026% 0.007% Total 885,103,542 2,013,705 0.225% 0.213%
Hinduism in Asia Region Total Population Hindus % of Hindus % of Hindu total Central Asia 92,019,166 149,644 0.163% 0.016% East Asia 1,527,960,261 130,631 0.009% 0.014% West Asia 274,775,527 3,187,673 1.5% 0.084% South Asia 1,437,326,682 1,068,728,901 70.05% 98.475% Southeast Asia 571,337,070 6,386,614 1.118% 0.677% Total 3,903,418,706 1,074,728,901 26.01% 99.266%
Hinduism in Europe Region Total Population Hindus % of Hindus % of Hindu total Balkans 65,407,609 449 0.001% 0.001% Central Europe 74,510,241 163 0% 0% Eastern Europe 212,821,296 717,101 0.337% 0.076% Western Europe 375,832,557 1,313,640 0.348% 0.138% Total 728,571,703 2,030,904 0.278% 0.214%
Hinduism in the Americas Region Total Population Hindus % of Hindus % of Hindu total Caribbean 24,898,266 279,515 1.123% 0.030% Central America 41,135,205 5,833 0.014% 0.006% North America 446,088,748 2,131,127 0.478% 0.191% South America 371,075,531 389,869 0.105% 0.041% Total 883,197,750 2,806,344 0.281% 0.263%
Hinduism in Oceania Region Total Population Hindus % of Hindus % of Hindu total Oceania 38,552,683 791,615 2.053% 0.071% Total 38,552,683 791,615 2.053% 0.071%
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