Freida Melesa

World Religions By Population 2024. As of 2020, an estimated 429 million people, about 6% of the world’s total population, were adherents of folk or traditional religions. Explore the diversity of faith traditions shaping our world today.

Generally speaking, buddhism, christianity, hinduism, islam, and judaism are considered the five major world religions, although sikhism, shintoism, or taoism may also be. The table has changed slightly over the years but retains a core of information on trends in world religions, major christian traditions and movements, christianity by continent,.