Which country has less Hindu?

Percent Hindu - Country rankings
The highest value was in India: 80.5 percent and the lowest value was in Pakistan: 0.3 percent.
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Which country has the lowest population of Hindus?

Indonesia is predominantly Muslim (90%), with only 1.6% of Indonesian people practicing Hinduism.
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What country is mostly Hindu?

An overwhelming majority of Hindus (94%) live in one country, India. The largest populations of Hindus outside India are in Nepal (2% of all Hindus) and Bangladesh (1%). Southern Asia – a subregion defined by the U.N.
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Which religion is lowest in India?

According to the 2011 census, 79.8% of the population of India practices Hinduism, 14.2% adheres to Islam, 2.3% adheres to Christianity, 1.7% adheres to Sikhism, 0.7% adheres to Buddhism and 0.4% adheres to Jainism.
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Which religion is closer to Hinduism?

Buddhism and Hinduism have common origins in the Ganges culture of northern India during the "second urbanisation" around 500 BCE. They have shared parallel beliefs that have existed side by side, but also pronounced differences.
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10 Countries With The Largest Hindu Population



Which God is main to Hinduism?

Most Hindus are principally devoted to the god Vishnu, the god Shiva, or the Goddess. These categorical practices are sometimes described as, respectively, Vaishnavism (Vishnu), Shaivism (Shiva), and Shaktism (Shakti being another term for the female creative energy).
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What religion is older than Hinduism?

Sometimes called the official religion of ancient Persia, Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest surviving religions, with teachings older than Buddhism, older than Judaism, and far older than Christianity or Islam. Zoroastrianism is thought to have arisen “in the late second millennium B.C.E.
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Which religion will grow in India?

India. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in India.
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Which state has more Hindus?

Hindu majority State/Union Territory in India

With Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal having more than 70 percent of population.
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Which religion is very rich in India?

Of India's four major religious groups, Sikhs on average are the wealthiest, by a wide margin. Approximately six-in-ten Sikh households fall in the highest wealth quintile, according to the NFHS wealth index, which includes measures such as whether a household has certain appliances and where it obtains drinking water.
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Is Hinduism popular in USA?

Hinduism is a minority religion in the United States of America, ranking fourth-largest after Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and constituting 1% of the population.
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How many Hindus are in the US?

There are around 2.5 million Hindus in the US, most of whom are relatively recent immigrants. Few Hindus lived in the US until national quotas on immigrants were removed in 1965, beginning successive waves of Hindu immigration, largely from India.
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Which country in Africa is Hindu?

Mauritius is the only African Union country where Hinduism is the dominant religion, with about 50% of the population as followers in 2011.
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Which is the only Hindu state in the world?

Nepal used to be the only constitutionally declared Hindu nation on this planet. Last year in a quick change in the state's governance, it removed the word Hindu and became secular.
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How many Hindu people are in China?

Practice of Hinduism in China

The traces of Hinduism's influence on China can be found in Chinese Buddhism. Hinduism is followed by 7.6 million people in China.
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What is the fastest growing religion in Canada?

Islam is the fastest growing religion in Canada. Sunni Islam is followed by the majority while there are significant numbers of Shia Muslims. Ahmadiyya also has a significant proportion with more than 25,000 Ahmadis living in Canada. There are also non-denominational Muslims.
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Which US city has the most Hindus?

According to the study, close to 80 percent of Hindu congregations are located in metropolitan areas with population greater than a million. Of these metro areas, the researchers found San Jose to be the most Hindu city with approximately 2.5 percent identifying as a Hindu adherent.
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Who is founder of Hinduism?

Unlike other religions, Hinduism has no one founder but is instead a fusion of various beliefs. Around 1500 B.C., the Indo-Aryan people migrated to the Indus Valley, and their language and culture blended with that of the indigenous people living in the region.
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Is religion decreasing in India?

According to the report, there has only been a “modest” change in India's religious demography since 1951: Hindus decreased from 84.1 percent to 79.8 percent while Muslims have increased from 9.8 percent to 14.2 percent This is the most noticeable change in India's religious make-up, according to the report.
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How many Muslims converted to Hindu in India?

In 2021, 209 Christians converted to Hinduism, while 32 Muslims converted to Hinduism.
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Which is the 1st religion in world?

Adherents hold that Hinduism—one of the principal faiths in the modern world, with about one billion followers—is the world's oldest religion, with complete scriptural texts dating back 3,000 years.
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Who lived in India before Hindus?

If it was believed at one time that Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India, that view has since been considerably modified. Now the generally accepted belief is that the pre-Dravidian aborigines, that is, the ancestors of the present tribals or Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes), were the original inhabitants.
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What religion was Jesus?

Of course, Jesus was a Jew. He was born of a Jewish mother, in Galilee, a Jewish part of the world. All of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples, all of them were Jews. He regularly worshipped in Jewish communal worship, what we call synagogues.
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