{"id":2228,"date":"2013-02-11T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2013-02-11T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:14:08","slug":"religious-beliefs-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Beliefs Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2233\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/world-of-religions.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2233\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/world-of-religions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"2085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/world-of-religions.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/world-of-religions-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/world-of-religions-589x1024.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Religion plays an important role in every culture around the world. This amazing visualization of world religions by the <a href=\"http:\/\/life.nationalpost.com\/2012\/03\/23\/graphic-a-demographic-breakdown-of-the-world-of-religion\/\">National Post<\/a>, shows the origins of different religious beliefs and how they are spread around the globe. The world&#8217;s population fall into the following main belief groups: Abrahamic (Christian, Judaic, Islamic, and Baha&#8217;i faiths), Eastern Dharmic (Buddhist, Hinduist, Sikh, and Ayyavazhi faiths), East Asian (Chinese folk religions, Japanese Shinto, and Vietnamese religions), Secular (Irreligious, Atheist, and Agnostic), and Indigenous (practiced by indigenous people in different regions of the globe).<\/p>\n<p>The Abrahamic and Eastern Dharmic religions are by far the ones with the largest constituencies, 48% and 19% of the population respectively. The secular\/agnostic\/atheist group is the next largest constituency, 17% of the world&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Religious Beliefs Around the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Religious Beliefs Around the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Religious Beliefs Around the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Religious Beliefs Around the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion plays an important role in every culture around the world. This amazing visualization of world religions by the National Post, shows the origins of different religious beliefs and how they are spread around the globe. The world&#8217;s population fall into the following main belief groups: Abrahamic (Christian, Judaic, Islamic, and Baha&#8217;i faiths), Eastern Dharmic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Religious Beliefs Around the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Religious Beliefs Around the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Religious Beliefs Around the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Religious Beliefs Around the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/religious-beliefs-around-the-world\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,30],"tags":[663,664,662,657,661,658,659,338,410,660],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}