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Hinduism by country
Hinduism - Percentage by country
The percentage of Hindu population of each country was taken from the US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2006 .[1] Other sources used were CIA Factbook[2] and adherents.com.[3] The total population of each country was taken from census.gov[4] (2007 estimates).
By country
Hinduism by country
Region
Country
Total Population (2007 est)
% of Hindus
Hindu total
Central Asia Afghanistan 31,889,923
0.4%[5] [6]
127,560
Balkans Albania 3,600,523
n/a
n/a
North Africa Algeria 32,531,853
n/a
n/a
Southern Africa Angola 12,263,596
n/a
n/a
South America Argentina 40,301,927
0.01%[7]
4,030
Middle East Armenia 2,971,650
n/a
n/a
Oceania Australia 20,434,176
0.5%[8]
102,171
Central Europe Austria 8,199,783
0.1% (approx)[9]
8,200
Middle East Azerbaijan 8,120,247
n/a
n/a
Middle East Bahrain 708,573
6.25%[10]
44,286
South Asia Bangladesh 150,448,339
9.2%[11] - 10.5%[12] [13]
13,841,247 - 15,797,076
Eastern Europe Belarus 9,724,723
n/a
n/a
Western Europe Belgium 10,392,226
0.06%[14]
6,235
Central America Belize 294,385
2.3%[15]
6,771
West Africa Benin 8,078,314
n/a
n/a
South Asia Bhutan 2,327,849
2%[16] - 25%[17] [18]
46,557 - 581,962
South America Bolivia 9,119,152
n/a
n/a
Balkans Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,552,198
n/a
n/a
Southern Africa Botswana 1,815,508
0.17%[19]
3,086
South America Brazil 190,010,647
0.0016%[20]
3,040
Southeast Asia Brunei 374,577
0.035%[21]
131
Balkans Bulgaria 7,322,858
n/a
n/a
West Africa Burkina Faso 14,326,203
n/a
n/a
Central Africa Burundi 8,390,505
0.1%[22] [23]
8,391
Southeast Asia Cambodia 13,995,904
0.3%[24] [25]
41,988
West Africa Cameroon 18,060,382
n/a
n/a
North America Canada 33,390,141
1% [26] [27]
333,901
Central Africa Central African Republic 4,369,038
n/a
n/a
Central Africa Chad 9,885,661
n/a
n/a
South America Chile 16,284,741
n/a
n/a
East Asia China 1,321,851,888
n/a
n/a
South America Colombia 44,379,598
0.02%[28]
8,876
East Africa Comoros 711,417
0.1%(approx)
711
Central Africa Congo (Brazzaville) 3,800,610
n/a
n/a
Central Africa Congo (Kinshasa) 65,751,512
0.18%[29]
118,353
Central America Costa Rica 4,133,884
n/a
n/a
Balkans Croatia 4,493,312
0.01% (approx)[30]
449
North America Cuba 11,394,043
0.21%[31]
23,927
Middle East Cyprus 788,457
n/a
n/a
Central Europe Czech Republic 10,228,744
n/a
n/a
West Africa Côte d'Ivoire 18,013,409
0.1%[32] [33]
18,013
Western Europe Denmark 5,468,120
0.1%[34] [35]
5,468
East Africa Djibouti 496,374
0.02%[36]
99
Caribbean Dominica 72,386
0.2%[37]
145
Caribbean Dominican Republic 9,365,818
n/a
n/a
Southeast Asia East Timor 1,084,971
n/a
n/a
South America Ecuador 13,755,680
n/a
n/a
North Africa Egypt 80,335,036
n/a
n/a
Central America El Salvador 6,948,073
n/a
n/a
East Africa Eritrea 4,906,585
0.1% (approx)[38]
4,907
Eastern Europe Estonia 1,315,912
n/a
n/a
East Africa Ethiopia 76,511,887
n/a
n/a
Oceania Fiji 918,675
30%[39] - 33% [40] [41]
275,603 - 303,163
Western Europe Finland 5,238,460
0.01%[42]
524
Western Europe France 63,718,187
0.1%[43] [44]
63,718
West Africa Gabon 1,454,867
n/a
n/a
West Africa Gambia 1,688,359
n/a
n/a
Middle East Georgia 4,646,003
0.01% (approx)[45]
465
Western Europe Germany 82,400,996
0.119%[46]
98,057
West Africa Ghana 22,931,299
0.05% (approx)[47]
11,466
Balkans Greece 10,706,290
n/a
n/a
Caribbean Grenada 89,971
0.7%[48]
630
Central America Guatemala 12,728,111
n/a
n/a
West Africa Guinea 9,947,814
n/a
n/a
West Africa Guinea-Bissau 1,472,780
n/a
n/a
South America Guyana 769,095
28.3%[49] [50] - 33%[51] [52] [53]
217,654 - 253,801
Caribbean Haiti 8,706,497
n/a
n/a
Central America Honduras 7,483,763
n/a
n/a
Central Europe Hungary 9,956,108
0.02%
1,767 [54]
Western Europe Iceland 301,931
n/a
n/a
South Asia India 1,129,866,154
80.5%[55] [56] [57]
909,542,254
Southeast Asia Indonesia 234,693,997
2%[58] [59] [60]
4,693,880
Middle East Iran 65,397,521
0.02% (appox)
13,079
Middle East Iraq 27,499,638
n/a
n/a
Western Europe Ireland 4,109,086
0.08% [61]
3,100
Middle East Israel 6,426,679
0.1% (appox)[62]
6,427
Western Europe Italy 58,147,733
0.02% (appox)[63]
11,630
Caribbean Jamaica 2,780,132
0.06%[64]
1,668
East Asia Japan 127,433,494
0.004% (approx)
5,097
Middle East Jordan 6,053,193
n/a
n/a
Central Asia Kazakhstan 15,284,929
n/a
n/a
East Africa Kenya 36,913,721
1%[65]
369,137
East Asia Korea, North 23,301,725
n/a
n/a
East Asia Korea, South 49,044,790
0.005% (appox)
2,452
Middle East Kuwait 2,505,559
12%[66]
300,667
Central Asia Kyrgyzstan 5,284,149
n/a
n/a
Southeast Asia Laos 6,521,998
n/a
n/a
Eastern Europe Latvia 2,259,810
0.006%[67]
136
Middle East Lebanon 3,925,502
0.1% (approx)[68]
3,926
Southern Africa Lesotho 2,125,262
0.1% (approx)[69] [70]
2,125
West Africa Liberia 3,195,931
0.1% (approx)[71]
3,196
North Africa Libya 6,036,914
0.1%[72] [73]
6,037
Eastern Europe Lithuania 3,575,439
n/a
n/a
Western Europe Luxembourg 480,222
0.07% (approx)[74]
336
Balkans Macedonia 2,055,915
n/a
n/a
Southern Africa Madagascar 19,448,815
0.1% [75] [76]
19,449
Southern Africa Malawi 13,603,181
0.02%[77] - 0.2%[78]
2,721 - 27,206
Southeast Asia Malaysia 24,821,286
6.3%[79] [80]
1,563,741
South Asia Maldives 369,031
0.01%[81]
37
West Africa Mali 11,995,402
n/a
n/a
North Africa Mauritania 3,270,065
n/a
n/a
Southern Africa Mauritius 1,250,882
48%[82] - 50%[83]
600,423 - 625,441
North America Mexico 108,700,891
n/a
n/a
Eastern Europe Moldova 4,328,816
0.01% (approx)[84]
433
Central Asia Mongolia 2,951,786
n/a
n/a
Balkans Montenegro 684,736
n/a
n/a
North Africa Morocco 33,757,175
n/a
n/a
Southern Africa Mozambique 20,905,585
0.05%[85] - 0.2%[86]
10,453 - 41,811
Southeast Asia Myanmar 47,373,958
0.5%[87]
236,870
Southern Africa Namibia 2,055,080
n/a
n/a
South Asia Nepal 28,901,790
80.6%[88] - 81%[89] [90]
23,294,843 - 23,410,450
Western Europe Netherlands 16,570,613
0.58%[91]
96,110
Oceania New Zealand 4,115,771
1%[92]
41,158
Central America Nicaragua 5,675,356
n/a
n/a
West Africa Niger 12,894,865
n/a
n/a
West Africa Nigeria 135,031,164
n/a
n/a
Western Europe Norway 4,627,926
0.5%
23,140
Middle East Oman 3,204,897
3%[93] - 5.7%[94]
96,147 - 182,679
South Asia Pakistan 164,741,924
1.5%[95] - 2.02%[96]
2,471,129 - 3,327,787
Middle East Palestine 4,018,332
n/a
n/a
Central America Panama 3,242,173
0.3%[97] [98]
9,726
Oceania Papua New Guinea 5,795,887
n/a
n/a
South America Paraguay 6,669,086
n/a
n/a
South America Peru 28,674,757
n/a
n/a
Southeast Asia Philippines 91,077,287
0.05% (approx)
45,539
Central Europe Poland 38,518,241
n/a
n/a
Western Europe Portugal 10,642,836
0.07%
7,396
Caribbean Puerto Rico 3,944,259
0.09%[99]
3,550
Middle East Qatar 907,229
7.2%[100] [101]
65,320
East Africa Réunion 784,000
6.7%[102]
52,528
Balkans Romania 22,276,056
n/a
n/a
Eastern Europe Russia 141,377,752
0.043%[103] [104]
60,792
East Africa Rwanda 9,907,509
n/a
n/a
Middle East Saudi Arabia 27,601,038
0.6%[105] - 1.1%[106]
165,606 - 303,611
West Africa Senegal 12,521,851
n/a
n/a
Balkans Serbia 10,150,265
n/a
n/a
East Africa Seychelles 81,895
2%
1,638
West Africa Sierra Leone 6,144,562
0.04%[107] - 0.1%[108]
2,458 - 6,145
Southeast Asia Singapore 4,553,009
4%[109] [110]
262,120
Central Europe Slovakia 5,447,502
0.1% (approx)
5,448
Central Europe Slovenia 2,009,245
n/a
n/a
East Africa Somalia 9,118,773
n/a
n/a
Southern Africa South Africa 43,997,828
1.25%[111] [112]
549,973
Western Europe Spain 40,448,191
n/a
n/a
South Asia Sri Lanka 20,926,315
7.1%[113] - 15%[114]
1,485,768 - 3,138,947
North Africa Sudan 39,379,358
n/a
n/a
South America Suriname 470,784
20%[115] - 27.4%[116]
94,157 - 128,995
Southern Africa Swaziland 1,133,066
0.15%[117] - 0.2%[118]
1,700 - 2,266
Western Europe Sweden 9,031,088
0.078% - 0.12%[119]
7,044 - 10,837
Western Europe Switzerland 7,554,661
0.38%[120] [121]
28,708
Middle East Syria 19,314,747
n/a
n/a
East Asia Taiwan 22,858,872
n/a
n/a
Central Asia Tajikistan 7,076,598
n/a
n/a
East Africa Tanzania 39,384,223
0.9%[122] [123]
354,458
Southeast Asia Thailand 65,068,149
0.0045%[124]
2,928
West Africa Togo 5,701,579
n/a
n/a
Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago 1,056,608
22.5%[125] [126] [127]
237,737
North Africa Tunisia 10,276,158
n/a
n/a
Middle East Turkey 71,158,647
n/a
n/a
Central Asia Turkmenistan 5,097,028
n/a
n/a
East Africa Uganda 30,262,610
0.2%[128] - 0.8%[129]
60,525 - 242,101
Eastern Europe Ukraine 46,299,862
n/a
n/a
Middle East United Arab Emirates 4,444,011
21.25%[130]
944,352
Western Europe United Kingdom 60,776,238
1% [131] [132]
607,762
North America United States 301,139,947
0.4%[133] [134]
1,204,560
South America Uruguay 3,460,607
n/a
n/a
Central Asia Uzbekistan 27,780,059
0.01% (approx)
2,778
South America Venezuela 26,023,528
n/a
n/a
Southeast Asia Vietnam 85,262,356
0.059%[135]
50,305
North Africa Western Sahara 382,617
n/a
n/a
Middle East Yemen 22,230,531
0.7%[136]
155,614
Southern Africa Zambia 11,477,447
0.14%[137] [138]
16,068
Southern Africa Zimbabwe 12,311,143
0.1%[139]
123,111
Total
6,671,226,000
14.468% - 14.553%
965,211,399 - 970,921,642
By region These percentages were calculated by using the above numbers. The first percentage, 4th column, is the percentage of population that is Hindu in a region (Hindus in the region * 100/total population of the region). The last column shows the Hindu percentage compared to the total Hindu population of the world (Hindus in the region * 100/total Hindu population of the world).
(Note: Egypt, Sudan, and other Arab Maghreb countries are counted as part of North Africa, not Middle East).
Hinduism in Africa
Region
Total Population
Hindus
% of Hindus
% of Hindu total
Central Africa 83,121,055
0
0%
0%
East Africa 193,741,900
667,694
0.345%
0.071%
North Africa 202,151,323
5,765
0.003%
0.001%
Southern Africa 137,092,019
1,269,844
0.926%
0.135%
West Africa 268,997,245
70,402
0.026%
0.007%
Total
885,103,542
2,013,705
0.228%
0.213%
Hinduism in Asia
Region
Total Population
Hindus
% of Hindus
% of Hindu total
Central Asia 92,019,166
149,644
0.163%
0.016%
East Asia 1,527,960,261
130,631
0.009%
0.014%
Middle East 274,775,527
792,872
0.289%
0.084%
South Asia 1,437,326,682
929,515,433
64.67%
98.475%
Southeast Asia 571,337,070
6,386,614
1.118%
0.677%
Total
3,903,418,706
936,975,194
24.004%
99.266%
Hinduism in Europe
Region
Total Population
Hindus
% of Hindus
% of Hindu total
Balkans 65,407,609
0
0%
0%
Central Europe 74,510,241
163
0%
0%
Eastern Europe 212,821,296
717,101
0.337%
0.076%
Western Europe 375,832,557
1,306,052
0.348%
0.138%
Total
728,571,703
2,023,316
0.278%
0.214%
Hinduism in The Americas
Region
Total Population
Hindus
% of Hindus
% of Hindu total
Caribbean 24,898,266
279,515
1.123%
0.030%
Central America 41,135,205
5,833
0.014%
0.006%
North America 446,088,748
1,806,720
0.405%
0.191%
South America 371,075,531
389,869
0.105%
0.041%
Total
883,197,750
2,481,937
0.281%
0.263%
Hinduism in Oceania
Region
Total Population
Hindus
% of Hindus
% of Hindu total
Oceania 30,564,520
411,907
1.348%
0.044%
Top 25
Top 25
Rank
Country
Hindu Population
% Hindu
Country
% Hindu
Hindu Population
1
India 885,816,798
80%
India 80%
885,816,798
2
Nepal 21,919,825
81%
Nepal 81%
21,919,825
3
Indonesia 16,938,171
7%
Mauritius 52%
615,301
4
Bangladesh 15,473,362
10.5%
Guyana 35%
267,849
5
Pakistan 3,026,600
1.02%
Suriname 27%
118,298
6
Fiji 294,882
0.6%
Trinidad and Tobago 22.5%
244,944
7
Sri Lanka 3,009,806
15%
Sri Lanka 15%
3,009,806
8
Malaysia 1,509,047
6.3%
Bangladesh 10.5%
15,473,362
9
United States 1,478,670
0.5%
Bahrain 7.7%
53,002
10
United Kingdom 906,621
1.5%
United Arab Emirates 7.5%
192,240
11
Russia 717,101
0.5%
Malaysia 6.3%
1,509,047
12
Mauritius 615,301
50%
Singapore 4%
177,028
13
Bhutan 44,645
2%
Pakistan 1.85%
3,026,600
14
South Africa 532,129
1.2%
Bhutan 2%
44,645
15
Kenya 338,295
1%
Philippines dubious – discuss 2%
1,757,150
16
Canada 328,050
1%
Kuwait 2%
46,712
17
Fiji 294,806
33%
Grenada 2%
1,790
18
Guyana 267,849
35%
Indonesia 1.81%
4,379,727
19
Saudi Arabia 264,175
1%
United Kingdom 1.5%
906,621
20
Trinidad and Tobago 244,944
22.5%
South Africa 1.2%
532,129
21
Uganda 218,155
0.8%
Jamaica 1.2%
32,781
22
Myanmar 214,547
0.5%
New Zealand 1.01%
40,758
23
United Arab Emirates 192,240
7.5%
Kenya 1%
338,295
24
Singapore 177,028
4%
Canada 1%
328,050
25
Netherlands 164,074
1%
Saudi Arabia 1%
264,175
Top 25 countries with the highest percent of Hindus.
Top 25 countries with the most Hindus.
See also
References
The US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2006 [140]
CIA FactBook [141] adherents.com [142] Religious Freedom page [143] census.gov [144]
External links
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