{"id":72392,"date":"2014-04-04T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2014\/04\/04\/global-religious-diversity\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:59:37","slug":"global-religious-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2014\/04\/04\/global-religious-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Religious Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-prc-block-subtitle\" aria-level=\"2\">Half of the Most Religiously Diverse Countries are in Asia-Pacific Region<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For more recent statistics about global religious diversity,<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2026\/02\/12\/religious-diversity-around-the-world\">\u00a0read our 2026 report \u201cReligious Diversity Around the World,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which is based on our religious composition estimates published in 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note (June 2025): Our new report \u201cHow the Global Religious Landscape Changed from 2010 to 2020\u201d includes revised 2010 religious composition estimates at the country, regional and<\/em><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em>global levels.&nbsp;Refer to&nbsp;the 2025&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/how-the-global-religious-landscape-changed-from-2010-to-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/global-religious-change-methodology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">methodology<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/feature\/religious-composition-by-country-2010-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>interactive&nbsp;table<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;for more detail.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-200-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2014\/04\/04\/global-religious-diversity\/religious-diversity-1-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e5dcd5\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e5dcd5;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"546\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-1.png?resize=199,546 199w\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-1.png?w=199\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85335 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several years ago, the Pew Research Center produced estimates of the religious makeup of more than 200 countries and territories, which it published in the 2012 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2012\/12\/18\/global-religious-landscape-exec\/\">The Global Religious Landscape<\/a>.\u201d The effort was part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, which analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. As part of the next phase of this project, Pew Research has produced an index that ranks each country by its level of religious diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comparing religious diversity across countries presents many challenges, starting with the definition of diversity. Social scientists have conceived of diversity in a variety of ways, including the degree to which a society is split into distinct groups; minority group size (in share and\/or absolute number); minority group influence (the degree to which multiple groups are visible and influential in civil society); and group dominance (the degree to which one or more groups dominate society). Each of these approaches can be applied to the study of religious diversity.[1. See Johnson, Todd M. and Brian J. Grim. 2013. Chapter 3: Religious Diversity. The World\u2019s Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography. Wiley-Blackwell, pages 93-108. The Pew Research study builds on the methodology developed by Johnson and Grim, a former senior researcher at the Pew Research Center.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study, however, takes a relatively straightforward approach to religious diversity. It looks at the percentage of each country\u2019s population that belongs to eight major religious groups, as of 2010.[2. Membership in each religious group is based on self-identification. It relies on the number of people around the world who view themselves as belonging to various religious groups. The study does not attempt to measure the degree to which members of these groups actively practice their faiths or how religious they are. For definitions of the religious groups, see the Pew Research Center\u2019s December 2012 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2012\/12\/18\/global-religious-landscape-exec\/\">The Global Religious Landscape<\/a>.\u201d] The closer a country comes to having equal shares<i> <\/i>of the eight groups, the higher its score on a 10-point Religious Diversity Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The choice of which religious groups to include in this study stems from the original research that was done for \u201cThe Global Religious Landscape\u201d report. That study was based on a country-by-country analysis of data from more than 2,500 national censuses, large-scale surveys and official population registers that were collected, evaluated and standardized by Pew Research staff and, in the case of European countries, by researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to have data that were comparable across many countries, the study focused on five widely recognized world religions \u2013 Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism \u2013 that collectively account for roughly three-quarters of the world\u2019s population. The remainder of the global population was consolidated into three additional groups: the religiously unaffiliated (those who say they are atheists, agnostics or nothing in particular); adherents of folk or traditional religions (including members of African traditional religions, Chinese folk religions, Native American religions and Australian aboriginal religions); and adherents of other religions (such as the Baha\u2019i faith, Jainism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Taoism, Tenrikyo, Wicca and Zoroastrianism).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some efforts to measure religious diversity have attempted to take into account subgroups of the major religious traditions.[3. See Grim, Brian J., Vegard Skirbekk, and Jesus Crespo Cuaresma. 2013. \u201cDeregulation and Demographic Change: A Key to Understanding Whether Religious Plurality Leads to Strife.\u201d Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion volume 9, article 8.] The main challenge in looking at religious diversity in this way is the serious data limitations for subgroups within religions other than Christianity. For most countries, Pew Research was able to generate estimates for four main types of Christians \u2013 Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox and the remainder as an \u201cother\u201d category.[4. See the Pew Research Center\u2019s December 2011 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2011\/12\/19\/global-christianity-exec\/\">Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World\u2019s Christian Population<\/a>.\u201d] For some countries with large Muslim populations, Pew Research has estimated the size of two main subgroups \u2013 Sunnis and Shias \u2013 but these are only approximations, expressed in ranges.[5. For more information, see Methodology for Sunni-Shia Estimates in the Pew Research Center\u2019s October 2009 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2009\/10\/07\/mapping-the-global-muslim-population\/\">Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World\u2019s Muslim Population<\/a>.\u201d] Beyond Christians and Muslims, cross-national demographic data on religious subgroups are generally not available. For this reason, the study is limited to the eight major categories described above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As noted in previous Pew Research reports, some of the faiths that have been consolidated into the \u201cfolk religion\u201d and \u201cother religion\u201d categories have millions of adherents around the world. However, in the overwhelming majority of countries, these religions are not specifically measured in censuses, large-scale surveys or population registers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"religious-diversity-index\">Religious Diversity Index<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Religious Diversity Index is a version of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, which is commonly used in environmental and business studies to measure the degree of ecological diversity or market concentration. The main difference is that Religious Diversity Index scores are inverted so that higher scores indicate higher diversity. (For more details on the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and the methods used to calculate the Religious Diversity Index scores, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2014\/04\/04\/methodology-2\">Methodology<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 10-point Religious Diversity Index is divided into four ranges: Countries with scores of 7.0 and higher (the top 5%) are categorized as having a \u201cvery high\u201d degree of religious diversity. Countries with scores from 5.3 to 6.9 (the next highest 15% of scores) are categorized as having a \u201chigh\u201d level of diversity.[6. In this report, 16% of countries ended up in the \u201chigh\u201d category because of tie scores.] Countries with scores from 3.1 to 5.2 (the following 20% of scores) are categorized as having \u201cmoderate\u201d diversity, while the rest are categorized as having \u201clow\u201d diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-countries-ranked\">How Countries Ranked<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at the percentage of each country\u2019s population that belongs to the eight major religious categories included in the study, 12 countries have a very high degree of religious diversity. Six of the 12 are in the Asia-Pacific region (Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, China and Hong Kong); five are in sub-Saharan Africa (Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Ivory Coast, Benin and Mozambique); and one is in Latin America and the Caribbean (Suriname). No countries in Europe, North America or the Middle East-North Africa region have a very high degree of religious diversity as measured in this study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the 232 countries in the study, Singapore \u2013 an island nation of more than 5 million people situated at the southern tip of Malaysia \u2013 has the highest score on the Religious Diversity Index. About a third of Singapore\u2019s population is Buddhist (34%), while 18% are Christian, 16% are religiously unaffiliated, 14% are Muslim, 5% are Hindu and &lt;1% are Jewish. The remainder of the population belongs to folk or traditional religions (2%) or to other religions considered as a group (10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-640-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2014\/04\/04\/global-religious-diversity\/religious-diversity-2-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f2f0ef\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f2f0ef;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-2.png?resize=480,334 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-2.png?resize=640,445 640w\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-2.png?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85338 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the new index, the United States has a moderate level of religious diversity, ranking 68th among the 232 countries and territories included in the study. Counting both adults and children, Christians constitute a sizable majority of the 2010 U.S. population (78%). Of the seven other major religious groups, only the religiously unaffiliated claim a substantial share of the U.S. population (16%).[7. As noted in the text, the figures in this report are for 2010. The Pew Research Center\u2019s latest religious affiliation estimates for the U.S. show that just under 20% of the adult population is religiously unaffiliated, part of a trend toward disaffiliation that has accelerated over the past five years. For more information, see the Pew Research Center\u2019s July 2013 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/growth-of-the-nonreligious-many-say-trend-is-bad-for-american-society.aspx\">Growth of the Nonreligious<\/a>\u201d and October 2012 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/Unaffiliated\/nones-on-the-rise.aspx\">\u2018Nones\u2019 on the Rise<\/a>.\u201d Note, however, that Pew Research surveys include only adults ages 18 and older, while Pew Research demographic estimates take into account people of all ages. For more details, see \u201cAge Structure Procedures\u201d in the Methodology of the December 2012 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/global-religious-landscape-methodology.aspx\">The Global Religious Landscape<\/a>.\u201d] All other religious groups combined account for about 5% of Americans. (The U.S. would register as considerably more diverse if subgroups within Christianity were counted.[8. For more information on the religious breakdown of U.S. adults, see the Pew Research Center\u2019s 2008 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2008\/02\/01\/u-s-religious-landscape-survey-religious-affiliation\/\">U.S. Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>.\u201d])<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By contrast, France has a high degree of religious diversity, ranking 25th among the 232 countries. Christians make up 63% of France\u2019s 2010 population, and two other groups account for sizable shares: the religiously unaffiliated (28%) and Muslims (8%). Iran, whose population is almost entirely Muslim, falls into the low diversity category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see how all 232 countries scored on the Religious Diversity Index, see <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/04\/Religious-Diversity-appendix-1.pdf\">Appendix 1 (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-640-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2014\/04\/04\/global-religious-diversity\/religious-diversity-3-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e4e8eb\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e4e8eb;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"509\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-3.png?resize=480,382 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-3.png?resize=640,509 640w\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-3.png?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85340 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;religious-diversity-by-region&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"religious-diversity-by-region\">Religious Diversity by Region<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Religious diversity differs substantially by geographic region. Among the six regions analyzed in this study, the Asia-Pacific region has the highest level of religious diversity, followed by sub-Saharan Africa. Europe and North America have a moderate level of religious diversity, while the Latin America-Caribbean and Middle East-North Africa regions have a low degree of religious diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see Religious Diversity Index scores for countries and regions, see <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/04\/Religious-Diversity-appendix-2.pdf\">Appendix 2 (PDF)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2014\/04\/04\/religious-diversity-index-scores-by-country\">Religious Diversity Index Scores by Country table<\/a>. That appendix also includes the percentage of each country\u2019s population that belongs to each of the eight major religious groups in the study. For more information on the size, share and geographic distribution of each of the major religious groups, see Pew Research\u2019s 2012 report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2012\/12\/18\/global-religious-landscape-exec\/\">The Global Religious Landscape<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-640-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2014\/04\/04\/global-religious-diversity\/religious-diversity-4-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f3f1f0\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f3f1f0;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/religious-diversity-4.png?resize=480,335 480w, 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