Top 15 Largest Religious Groups

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When you break down the global religious landscape by sheer size, Christianity sits at the top with roughly 2.4 billion people following it. Islam comes in second place holding about 1.8 billion adherents, while Hinduism takes the third spot with around 1.2 billion. Buddhism accounts for approximately 600 million followers, and Taoism includes a membership of roughly 170 million. Shinto covers about 65 million individuals, Sikhism has roughly 30 million members, and Judaism represents around 18 million people. Jainism consists of approximately 12 million followers, the Bahá'í Faith has about 7.9 million adherents, and Confucianism includes roughly 6.1 million members. Cao Đài counts approximately 3 million people, Cheondoism also has around 3 million adherents, Tenrikyo has roughly 2 million members, and Wicca is listed with about 1 million adherents. The data for these figures on the top 15 largest groups globally comes from Wikipedia and CDA.