How many different religious denominations exist in the world today.?
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"The Adherents.com collection of religious adherent statistics now has over 43,000 adherent statistic citations, for over 4,300 different faith groups, covering all countries of the world. This is not an absolutely exhaustive compilation of all such data, but it is by far the largest compilation available on the Internet."\n\nSo...over 4,300.
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1) Christianity 2.1 billion (Began: ca. 27 AD/CE) \nRoman Catholicism: 1.085 billion \nProtestantism: 590 million \nEastern Orthodoxy: 200 million \nAnglican: 84 million \nOriental Orthodoxy, Assyrians, and other Christians: 350 million \n\nIslam 1.3 billion (Began: ca. 622 AD/CE) \nSunnism: 940 million \nShi'ism: 170 million \nSufi, Ibadiyyah, Druze and other Muslims : 80 million \nSecular/Irreligious/Agnostic/Atheist 1.1 billion \nCategory includes a wide range of beliefs, without specifically adhering to a religion. The category also includes humanism, deism, pantheism, and freethought. For more information, see the Adherents.com discussion of this category. \n\nHinduism 900 million (Began: 15th century BC/BCE) \nVaishnavism: 580 million \nShaivism: 220 million \nShaktism/Smartism/Arya Samaj/Other sects: 150 million \n\nBuddhism 708 million (Began: 6th century BC/BCE) \nMahayana: 185 million \nTheravada: 124 million \nChinese/Japanese Buddhism: 394 million \nPrimal indigenous 300 million \nNot a single organized religion, includes a wide range of primarily Asian traditional or tribal religions, including Shamanism and Paganism. \n\nAfrican traditional and diasporic 100 million \nNot a single organized religion, this includes traditional African beliefs such as Yoruba as well as diasporic beliefs such as Santeria (which itself draws from Catholicism) and Vodoun. \n\nShintoism 69 million (Began: 300 BC/BCE) \nThis number states the number of practicing followers of Shintoism; for if partial or ethnic followers of Shintoism were included, the number would fall around 100–115 million. \n\nSikhism 23 million (Began: 1500s) \nJuche 19 million \nNot considered a religion by adherents, who view it as secular and anti-revisionist. Juche is the political ideology of the Workers Party of Korea, the ruling party of the DPRK; some have argued it constitutes a religion due to its Great Leader Worship characteristics. The number is approximately the entire population of the country. \nSpiritism 15 million (Began: mid-19th century) \nNot a single organized religion, includes a variety of beliefs including some forms of Umbanda. \n\nJudaism 15 million (Began: 13th century BC/BCE) \n\nFalun Gong 10-100 million* (Began: 1992) \nNot necessarily considered a religion by adherents or outside observers. No membership or rosters, thus the actual figure of practitioners is impossible to confirm. \nBahá'í Faith 7 million (Began: 19th century) \n\nJainism 4.2 million (Began: 6th century BC/BCE)
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It is the largest Christian denomination in the world. Catholics represent 26% of the U.S. population and 43% of the Canadian population.
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Christianity (2.1 Billion)
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Um hard to find but here's some sites with different type of statistics:\nthis has more of statistics how many in each faith\nhttp://www.adherents.com/index.html\nthis is about the bible, but not \nhttp://www.christianitytoday.com/biblestudies/areas/biblestudies/articles/cr-2003-004-3.42.html\n\num but that's all I could really find... sorry- hope it helps\n\nGod Bless
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According to Wikipedia, There are 2.1 billion Christians in the world, out of a total population of 6.5 Billion Humans, This means 33.32% of the population  of the world is Christian.
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We don't know exactly how many there are.  There are over 10000.  For more info follow this link:  http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/faq01.htm\n\nGod bless,\nStanbo
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you will not find a correct answer, because there are so many denominations and tribes that are undescovered with their religions
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there are many in church\nif ur church don't have go to other church
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# Christianity: 2.1 billion\n# Islam: 1.3 billion\n# Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n# Hinduism: 900 million\n# Chinese traditional religion: 394 million\n# Buddhism: 376 million\n# primal-indigenous: 300 million\n# African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n# Sikhism: 23 million\n# Juche: 19 million\n# Spiritism: 15 million\n# Judaism: 14 million\n# Baha'i: 7 million\n# Jainism: 4.2 million\n# Shinto: 4 million\n# Cao Dai: 4 million\n# Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n# Tenrikyo: 2 million\n# Neo-Paganism: 1 million\n# Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n# Rastafarianism: 600 thousand\n# Scientology: 500 thousand
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Whenever you want to know demographics of religions, try www.adherents.com first. They give sources for their information so be sure to look at the footnotes to find out the year the information was gathered. They put number of Christians in the U.S. at 217,872,000 as of 2001.
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There are 194 countries in the world today
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According to Adherent.com, this is largest US denominations in 2004:\nCatholic: 71,796,719\nBaptist: 47,744,049\nMethodist: 19,969,799\nLutheran: 13,520,189\nPresbyterian: 7,897,597\nPentecostal: 6,219,569\nEpiscopalian: 4,870,373\nJudaism: 3,995,371\nLatter-day Saints/Mormon: 3,806,258\nChurches of Christ: 3,659,483\nCongregational: 1,944,762\nJehovah's Witnesses: 1,878,431\nAssemblies of God: 1,560,890\n\nI don't know if Britney or Angelina are Catholic.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Sometimes you will hear of "8 Great World Religions" and those are:  Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto.  But these are certainly not the only religions.  They are called "great" because of sheer numbers, or their influence on a culture or people.\n\nOther religions less known include:\nZoroastrianism  (the Parsees of India)\nJainism\nSikhism\nBon (a native Tibetan religion)\nCao Dai\nBahai\nAnimism\nWicca/Neo-Paganism\nVoodoo\nSanteria\nChinese Folk Religion\nShamanism/tribal religions\nEckankar\n\nOk, the list goes on and on and on.\n\nThe answer is in the thousands, but usually we can group the religions into a few categories.  I have heard of the number 4000 religions, but I'm not sure if that includes denominations, etc.  Remember, aside from religions, each of the religions usually has several denominations or sects.
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A little over two billion, or about a third of the World's population today. Not sure about the stats for the U.S.\n\nBut from my vantage point, I'd consider only a small fraction of that number to be 'true' Christians... if you get my drift.\n\nPeace be with you.
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christianity (including all its various varieties)
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Christianity: 2.1 billion\n\nIslam: 1.3 billion\n\nSecular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n\nHinduism: 900 million\n\nChinese traditional religion: 394 million\n\nBuddhism: 376 million\n\nprimal-indigenous: 300 million\n\nAfrican Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n\nSikhism: 23 million\n\nJuche: 19 million\n\nSpiritism: 15 million\n\nJudaism: 14 million\n\nBaha'i: 7 million\n\nJainism: 4.2 million\n\nShinto: 4 million\n\nCao Dai: 4 million\n\nZoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n\nTenrikyo: 2 million\n\nNeo-Paganism: 1 million\n\nUnitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n\nRastafarianism: 600 thousand\n\nScientology: 500 thousand