In 2020, around 28.8 percent of the global population were identified as Christian. Around 25.6 percent of the global population identify as Muslims, followed by 14.9 percent of global populations as Hindu. The number of Muslims increased by 347 million, when compared to 2010 data, more than all other religions combined.

As of 2010, Christianity was the religion with the most followers worldwide, followed by Islam (Muslims) and Hinduism. In the forty years between 2010 and 2050, it is projected that the landscape of world religions will undergo some noticeable changes, with the number of Muslims almost catching up to Christians. The changes in population sizes of each religious group is largely dependent on demographic development, for example, the rise in the world's Christian population will largely be driven by population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, while Muslim populations will rise across various regions of Africa and South Asia. As India's population is set to grow while China's goes into decline, this will be reflected in the fact that Hindus will outnumber the unaffiliated by 2050. In fact, India may be home to both the largest Hindu and Muslim populations in the world by the middle of this century.

Graph and download economic data for Total Construction Spending: Religious in the United States (TLRELCONS) from Jan 2002 to May 2025 about religion, expenditures, construction, and USA.

Contained within the 4th Edition (1974) of the Atlas of Canada is a set of three maps. The first two maps show the percentage of population, by census division, who identify with a particular religion. These two maps represent the first and second statistical ranks for the most common religions. The third map shows the diversity of religion by number of dominant religious denominations as well as a breakdown of the particular religions within each census division. A supplementary graph showing the percentage of religions by province is also provided.

Contained within the 3rd Edition (1957) of the Atlas of Canada is a plate consisting of six condensed maps which show the principle religious denominations of the people living in Canada. The 1951 Census of Canada enumerated the religious denomination of which each person was either a member or to which he or she adhered or favoured. This plate shows the distribution of population on this basis of the six religious groups which were most numerous in 1951. These six groups are as follows: Roman Catholic, The United Church of Canada, The Anglican Church of Canada, Presbyterians, Baptists and Lutherans. Each map is accompanied by a pie chart showing the percentage distribution of each denomination by province and territory.

In 2023, about 33 percent of Americans were Protestants, down from 69 percent in 1948. In that same year, about 22 percent of Americans were Catholic, while 22 percent said that they had no religion at all.

Graph and download economic data for Total Private Construction Spending: Religious in the United States (PRRELCON) from Jan 1993 to May 2025 about religion, expenditures, construction, private, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Total Construction Spending: Religious in the United States (MPCT06XXS) from Feb 2002 to May 2025 about religion, expenditures, construction, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Private fixed investment in structures: Nonresidential: Religious (C309RC1A027NBEA) from 1929 to 2024 about religion, nonresidential, fixed, investment, private, GDP, and USA.

In 2023, **** percent of Americans were unaffiliated with any religion. A further **** percent of Americans were White evangelical Protestants, and an additional **** percent were White mainline Protestants. Religious trends in the United States Although the United States is still home to the largest number of Christians worldwide, the nation has started to reflect a more diverse religious landscape in recent years. Americans now report a wide range of religious beliefs and backgrounds, in addition to an increasing number of people who are choosing to identify with no religion at all. Studies suggest that many Americans have left their previous religion to instead identify as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular, with many reasoning that they stopped believing in the religion's teachings, that they didn't approve of negative teachings or treatment of LGBTQ+ people, or that their family was never that religious growing up. Christian controversies Over the last few years, controversies linked to Christian denominations have plagued the nation, including reports of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Southern Baptist Convention. Christian churches have also been accused of supporting discriminatory actions against LGBTQ+ people and people belonging to other religious groups. In addition, there have been increasing concerns about Christian nationalism, the political ideology that asserts that America was founded to be a Christian nation. Although the majority of Americans still think that declaring the United States a Christian nation would go against the U.S. Constitution, studies found that most Republicans would be in favor of this change.

Graph and download economic data for Real personal consumption expenditures: Social services and religious activities (chain-type quantity index) (DSOCRA3A086NBEA) from 1929 to 2024 about religion, quantity index, chained, PCE, consumption expenditures, consumption, personal, services, real, GDP, and USA.

This graph shows the number of religious adherents in the United States in 2010, by state. In 2010, about 16.7 million adherents to various religions were living in California.

Contained within the 4th Edition (1974) of the Atlas of Canada is a set of three maps. The first two maps show the percentage of population, by census division, who identify with a particular religion. These two maps represent the first and second statistical ranks for the most common religions. The third map shows the diversity of religion by number of dominant religious denominations as well as a breakdown of the particular religions within each census division. A supplementary graph showing the percentage of religions by province is also provided.

This study, designed and carried out by the "http://www.asarb.org/" Target="_blank">Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB), compiled data on 372 religious bodies by county in the United States. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 religious bodies and on congregations only for 155. Participating bodies included 354 Christian denominations, associations, or communions (including Latter-day Saints, Messianic Jews, and Unitarian/Universalist groups); counts of Jain, Shinto, Sikh, Tao, Zoroastrian, American Ethical Union, and National Spiritualist Association congregations, and counts of congregations and adherents from Baha'i, three Buddhist groupings, two Hindu groupings, four Jewish groupings, and Muslims. The 372 groups reported a total of 356,642 congregations with 161,224,088 adherents, comprising 48.6 percent of the total U.S. population of 331,449,281. Membership totals were estimated for some religious groups.

In January 2024, the ARDA added 21 religious tradition (RELTRAD) variables to this dataset. These variables start at variable #12 (TOTCNG_2020). Categories were assigned based on pages 88-94 in the original "https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/node/1638" Target="_blank">2020 U.S. Religion Census Report.

Visit the "https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/sources-for-religious-congregations-membership-data" Target="_blank">frequently asked questions page for more information about the ARDA's religious congregation and membership data sources.

Graph and download economic data for Real Private Fixed Investment in Structures: Nonresidential: Other structures: Religious (C309RL1A225NBEA) from 1930 to 2023 about religion, nonresidential, fixed, investment, private, real, GDP, rate, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Nonprofit institution income not recorded by the IRS: Religious organizations (W439RC1A027NBEA) from 1992 to 2021 about religion, nonprofit organizations, income, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Employed full time: Wage and salary workers: Directors, religious activities and education occupations: 16 years and over (LEU0254483100A) from 2000 to 2024 about religion, occupation, full-time, salaries, workers, 16 years +, education, wages, employment, and USA.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Don D.M. Tadaya

Released under Apache 2.0

Contents

Metron is interested in taking a data science approach to gleaming deeper insights into matters of spirituality, religion and extranormal experience. Data scientists at all levels of experience are encouraged to participate in this analysis.

This data set contains several public files of religious and spiritual texts. Also included is a “wildcard” file on the subject of machine super intelligence. This file is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Switzerland License. More information can be found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ch/deed.en

Metron is interested in various text analysis techniques that can further an understanding of concepts that assist in furthering development of a body of knowledge on the topic of comparative religion and spirituality. Also other interesting observations that will fuel further lines of inquiry and questions are highly desirable.

Suggested Analysis Types: Scatter plot analysis - Metron would like to see a scatter plot of frequently recurring words in the texts If possible, can this be taken to the level of deriving conceptual correlations? Example, we may be able to state that “unconditional love” was the primary concept conveyed from the dataset. Followed by “communion” etc.

Word cloud analysis - create a scatter plot that uses a horizontal position indicating most popular words and a vertical position that indicates (some other type to be defined of) popularity.

Topic modeling - identify common topics found in the set of documents. Drill down to most common words per topic.

Word & document frequencies (tf-idf) - word frequency measurement and comparison across all documents. Charts of the highest tf-idf words in each text within the corpus.

Word dendrogram cluster - graphical representation of hierarchical word clusters.

Pairwise correlation - Words most correlated with other words in chart format.

Sentiment analysis - the most common words in texts associated with sentiments. Example: sentiment = creation. Associated words: God, genesis, Ein Sof, Allah, primordial, etc.

Word Network using tf-idf as a metric to find characteristic words for each description field rather than using counts of words.

Note: the above techniques can be found in “Data Science from Scratch - First Principles with Python” and “Text Mining with R - A Tidy Approach” both books from O’Reilly publishing.

The files are:

St. Augustine City of God 108 Upanishads 7 Tablets of Creation vols 1 and 2 Advaita Vendanta Aryan sun myths Autobiography of a yogi The Book of Illumination”

Attributed to Rabbi Nehunia ben haKana Bhagavad Gita Bible KJV Collected Fruits of Occult Teaching by A.P. Sinnett Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

Hidden Nature-The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: SELECTED WRITINGS History of Zoroastrianism by

Maneckji Nusservanji The Philosophy of the Kaivalya Upanishad Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude) Knowledge of the Higher Worlds Rudolf Steiner Kularnava Tantra The Life of Buddha Machine Super Intelligence The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants By Eros Urides (A Martian) THE NATURE OF THE GODS. M. Tullius Cicero (“nature-gods”) OCCULT THEOCRASY BY LADY QUEENBOROUGH Urantia Book The Book of the People: POPUL VUH THE DHAMMAPADA VEDIC HYMNS Vedic Hymns, Part II Secret Instructions of the Society of Jesus THE CHALDEAN ACCOUNT OF GENESIS THE KITAB-I-AQDAS THE PATH OF LIGHT The Buddha's Way of Virtue The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man by Patañjali The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja The Kybalion Buddhism, in Its Connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in Its Contrast

Data on religion by gender and age for the population in private households in Canada, provinces and territories.