World Religions By Population 2024. Newsweek has mapped the most religious countries in the world, according to data compiled by the pew research center. The world religion database (wrd) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world.

The buddhist population will remain flat and fall from 7.2 percent to 5.2 percent of the world’s total population. Religious persecution is not limited to despotic countries that deny basic civil rights to their citizens.