Remarks: Ranked by mean estimate which is in brackets. Irreligious includes agnostic, atheist, secular believer, and people having no formal religious adherence. It does not necessarily mean that members of this group don't belong to any religion. Some religions have harmonized with local cultures and can be seen as a cultural background rather than a formal religion. Additionally, the practice of officially associating a family or household with a religious institute while not formally practicing the affiliated religion is common in many countries. Thus, over half of this group is theistic and/or influenced by religious principles, but nonreligious/non-practicing and not true atheists or agnostics.[۲] See Spiritual but not religious.
Taoists/Confucianists/Chinese traditional religionists
As a spiritual practice, Taoism has made fewer inroads in the West than Buddhism and Hinduism. Despite the popularity of its great classics the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching, the specific practices of Taoism have not been promulgated in America with much success;[۵۹] these religions are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of bigger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. Nonetheless, Taoist ideas and symbols such as Taijitu have become popular throughout the world through Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, and various martial arts.[۶۰]
The Chinese traditional religion has 184,000 believers in Latin America, 250,000 believers in Europe, and 839,000 believers in North America سره سم1998.[۶۸][۶۹]
Ethnic and indigenous
All of the below come from the U.S. Department of State 2009 International Religious Freedom Report,[۷۰] based on the highest estimate of people identified as indigenous or followers of indigenous religions that have been well-defined. Due to the syncretic nature of these religions, the following numbers may not reflect the actual number of practitioners.
The Sikh homeland is the Punjab state, in India, where today Sikhs make up approximately 61% of the population. This is the only place where Sikhs are in the majority. Sikhs have emigrated to countries all over the world – especially to English-speaking and East Asian nations. In doing so they have retained, to an unusually high degree, their distinctive cultural and religious identity.
Sikhs are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. But they can be found in many international cities and have become an especially strong religious presence in the United Kingdom and Canada.[۹۱]
Note that all these estimates come from a single source. However, this source gives a relative indication of the size of the Spiritist communities within each country.
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↑"Kiribati". U.S. Department of State. د اصلي آرشيف څخه پر ۳۰ نومبر ۲۰۰۹ باندې. د لاسرسينېټه ۱۴ فبروري ۲۰۱۵. الوسيط |CitationClass= تم تجاهله (مساعدة)
↑"Barbados". U.S. Department of State. د اصلي آرشيف څخه پر ۳۰ نومبر ۲۰۰۹ باندې. د لاسرسينېټه ۱۴ فبروري ۲۰۱۵. الوسيط |CitationClass= تم تجاهله (مساعدة)
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↑CIS."Fusión de Barómetros de Septiembre a Diciembre de 2020", 13,498 respondents. The question was "¿Cómo se define Ud. en materia religiosa: católico/a practicante, católico/a no practicante, creyente de otra religión, agnóstico/a, indiferente o no creyente, o ateo/a?".
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↑"Sierra Leone". U.S. Department of State. د اصلي آرشيف څخه پر ۳۰ نومبر ۲۰۰۹ باندې. د لاسرسينېټه ۱۴ فبروري ۲۰۱۵. الوسيط |CitationClass= تم تجاهله (مساعدة)
↑"Palau". U.S. Department of State. د اصلي آرشيف څخه پر ۳۰ نومبر ۲۰۰۹ باندې. د لاسرسينېټه ۱۴ فبروري ۲۰۱۵. الوسيط |CitationClass= تم تجاهله (مساعدة)
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