What are the 3 most popular religions in the world? (in order)?

Answer 1

Islam, Christianity, Hinduism. Jews number only tens of millions so they don't come anywhere near the three major religions which are measured in the hundreds of millions.

Answer 2

I can't believe all these unbelievably naive guesses. Here's the documented numbers, as of 2005:

1. Christianity: 2.1 billion
2. Islam: 1.3 billion
3. Secular / Nonreligious / Agnostic / Atheist: 1.1 billion
4. Hinduism: 900 million
5. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
6. Buddhism: 376 million
7. primal-indigenous: 300 million
8. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
9. Sikhism: 23 million
10. Juche: 19 million
11. Spiritism: 15 million
12. Judaism: 14 million
13. Baha'i: 7 million
14. Jainism: 4.2 million
15. Shinto: 4 million
16. Cao Dai: 4 million
17. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
18. Tenrikyo: 2 million
19. Neo-Paganism: 1 million
20. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
21. Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
22. Scientology: 500 thousand

Answer 3

I would say atheism (if you'd call that a religious belief) followed by Buddhism and Christianity. But Islam, with the highest birthrates in the world and the death sentence for apostates, outnumbers them all. Of course, how many followers a religion has is a different question from how popular it is. If you want them ranked by order of number, then you'd have Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism.

Thin, Islam has more than 700 sects. Why didn't you mention that too?

Answer 4

It depends how you define separate religions, but broadly speaking, the "Big Three" are Christianity, Islam & Hinduism.

But since Christianity includes African Independent Churches (AICs), the Aglipayan Church, Amish, Anglicans, Armenian Apostolic, Assemblies of God; Baptists, Calvary Chapel, Catholics, Christadelphians, Christian Science, the Community of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormons"), Coptic Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches, Ethiopian Orthodox, Evangelicals, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Local Church, Lutherans, Methodists, Monophysites, Nestorians, the New Apostolic Church, Pentecostals, Plymouth Brethren, Presbyterians, the Salvation Army, Seventh-Day Adventists, Shakers, Stone-Campbell churches (Disciples of Christ; Churches of Christ; the "Christian Church and Churches of Christ"; the International Church of Christ); Uniate churches, United Church of Christ/Congregationalists, the Unity Church, Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Vineyard churches and others, and the vast majority of these sub-sects of Christianity reject all or part of the beliefs of the other sub-sects (often killing each other, like Protestants & Catholics in Northern Ireland), one should probably reject the notion that "Christianity" is a single religion at all, making the "Big Three" Islam (21%) , Agnosticism (16%), and Hinduism (14%).

Answer 5

Christianity, Islam, Hinduism

Answer 6

Catholicism, Christianity, and Jewish. Did you know that Paganism is the oldest religion in the world?

Answer 7

Humanism... buddy. Consider it as a religion. the parent of all religions.

Answer 8

Christian
Athiesm
Jewish

Answer 9

I think Idolatry is number 1

Answer 10

Christian
Muslim
Hindus