Which is the highest religion in India?

Hinduism is an ancient religion with the largest religious grouping in India, with around 966 million adherents as of 2011, composing 79.8% of the population.
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Which religion is fastest growing in India?

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in India. Growth rate of Muslims has been consistently higher than the growth rate of Hindus, ever since the census data of independent India has been available. For example, during the 1991-2001 decade, Muslim growth rate was 29.5% (vs 19.9% for Hindus).
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How many Muslims are in India?

With around 204 million Muslims (2019 estimate), India's Muslim population is about the world's third-largest and the world's largest Muslim-minority population. India is home to 10.9% of the world's Muslim population. According to Pew Research Center, there can be 213 million Muslims in 2020, India's 15.5% population.
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Is India a Hindu country?

Hinduism is the largest religion in India. According to the 2011 Census of India, 966.3 Million people identify as Hindu, representing 79.8% of the country's population. India contains 94% of the global Hindu population.
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Who started 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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Which country has most Muslims?

The country with the largest number (about 209 million) is Indonesia, where 87.2% of the population identifies as Muslim. India has the world's second-largest Muslim population in raw numbers (roughly 176 million), though Muslims make up just 14.4% of India's total population.
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How many Muslims are in China?

Islam has been practiced in China since the 7th century CE. Muslims are a minority group in China, representing 2.85% (around 40 million) of the total population.
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Where do most Muslims live?

Around 62% of the world's Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region (from Turkey to Indonesia), with over one billion adherents. The largest Muslim population in a country is in Indonesia, a country home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.1%), India (10.9%) and Bangladesh (9.2%).
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Which is the purest religion?

Hinduism. According to the principle scripture of Hinduism, the Bhagavad-gītā, truth is Krishna himself. This is confirmed by Vyasa as stated in the verse, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ultimate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth.
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How much of Russia is Hindu?

According to the 2012 official census, there are 140,000 Hindus in Russia, which accounts for 0.1% population of Russia. A majority of Russian Hindus were Vaishnavites.
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Which country follows Hinduism?

Countries with more than 5,000 Hindu residents and citizens include (in decreasing order) India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Fiji, Bhutan, Indonesia (especially in Bali, which is 84% Hindu), Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, Myanmar, Thailand, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Mauritius, Suriname ...
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Who wrote the Quran?

Muslims believe that the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final prophet, Muhammad, through the archangel Gabriel incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning in the month of Ramadan, when Muhammad was 40; and concluding in 632, the year of his death.
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Who is the founder of Islam?

The rise of Islam is intrinsically linked with the Prophet Muhammad, believed by Muslims to be the last in a long line of prophets that includes Moses and Jesus.
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Are there Muslims in Japan?

Japan, which is also a Muslim-minority country, also experienced a growth in Muslim population during the bubble economy. Based on the data from 2016, there are currently approximately 120,000 overseas Muslims and 10,000 Japanese Muslims living in Japan.
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Which country is most religious?

These are the 10 countries perceived to be the most religious.
  • No. 8: Turkey. ...
  • No. 7: Jordan. Religion rank: 7. ...
  • No. 6: Iraq. Religion rank: 6. ...
  • No. 5: Egypt. Religion rank: 5. ...
  • No. 4: United Arab Emirates. Religion rank: 4. ...
  • No. 3: India. Religion rank: 3. ...
  • No. 2: Saudi Arabia. Religion rank: 2. ...
  • No. 1: Israel. Religion rank: 1.
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How many types of Muslims are there?

A disagreement over succession after Mohammed's death in 632 split Muslims into Islam's two main sects, Sunni and Shia.
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Where did Islam start?

Although its roots go back further, scholars typically date the creation of Islam to the 7th century, making it the youngest of the major world religions. Islam started in Mecca, in modern-day Saudi Arabia, during the time of the prophet Muhammad's life.
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Is there any Hindu in Pakistan Army?

Both officers, Major Dr Aneel Kumar, 40, and Major Dr Kelash Kumar, 41, belong to the Army Medical Corps, and hail from the southern provinces of Sindh, Tharparkar and Badin, not very far from the Indian border. (According to the latest estimates, over 75 lakh Hindus live in Pakistan with a majority settled in Sindh.)
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Is Hinduism growing in America?

Fueled by immigration, America's Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-ranging study of religions in the nation.
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Is there any Hindu in Saudi Arabia?

Hinduism is the 3rd largest religion in Saudi Arabia, followed by nearly 1.3% of total population residing in the nation. As of 2020, there were nearly 451,347 Hindus residing in Saudi Arabia, among whom most of them were from Indians and Nepalis.
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What was the first religion?

Hinduism (founded around the 15th – 5th century BCE)

The first and foremost of these is a belief in the Vedas – four texts compiled between the 15th and 5th centuries BCE on the Indian subcontinent, and the faith's oldest scriptures – which make Hinduism without doubt the oldest religion in existence.
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