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Do not fill this in! == Demographics == {{See also|Abrahamic world}}{{Pie chart |thumb=right |caption=Worldwide percentage of adherents by Abrahamic religion, {{as of |2015 |lc=y}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hackett |first1=Conrad |last2=Mcclendon |first2=David |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |year=2015 |title=Christians remain world's largest religious group, but they are declining in Europe |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/ |access-date=25 October 2020 |archive-date=1 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301011315/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/ |url-status=live}}</ref> |label1=[[Christianity]] |color1=Purple |value1=31.2 |label2=[[Islam]] |color2=Green |value2=24.1 |label3=[[Judaism]] |color3=Blue |value3=0.18 |label4=[[Baháʼí Faith]] |color4=Gold |value4=0.07 |label5=Other (non-Abrahamic) |color5=White |value5=45.45 }}Christianity is the largest Abrahamic religion with about 2.3 billion adherents, constituting about 31.1% of the world's population.<ref name="Pew Relig by country">{{cite web |date=2 April 2015 |title=Religious Composition by Country, 2010–2050 |url=https://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projection-table/ |access-date=2 September 2021 |publisher=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project |language=en-US |archive-date=4 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404142344/http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projection-table/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Islam is the second largest Abrahamic religion, as well as the fastest-growing Abrahamic religion in recent decades.<ref name="Pew Relig by country" /><ref name="PewIslam2011">[http://www.pewforum.org/The-Future-of-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx "The Future of Global Muslim Population: Projections from 2010 to 2013"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209094904/http://www.pewforum.org/The-Future-of-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx |date=9 February 2011 }} Accessed July 2013.</ref> It has about 1.9 billion adherents, called Muslims, which constitute about 24.1% of the world's population. The third largest Abrahamic religion is Judaism with about 14.1 million adherents, called Jews.<ref name="Pew Relig by country" /> The Baháʼí Faith has over 8 million adherents, making it the fourth largest Abrahamic religion,{{sfn |Smith |2022b}}<ref name="WRD 2020 Bahais">{{cite web |title=Baha'is by Country |website=World Religion Database |publisher=Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs |date=2020 |url=https://worldreligiondatabase.org/ |access-date=21 December 2020 |archive-date=9 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209190545/https://worldreligiondatabase.org/ |url-status=live }}{{subscription required}}</ref> and the fastest growing religion across the 20th century usually at least twice the rate of population growth.{{sfn |Johnson |Grim |2013 |pp=59–62}} The Druze Faith has between one million and nearly two millions adherents.{{sfn |Held |2008 |p=109 |loc="Worldwide, they number 1 million or so, with about 45 to 50 percent in Syria, 35 to 40 percent in Lebanon, and less than 10 percent in Israel. Recently there has been a growing Druze diaspora."}}{{sfn |Swayd |2015 |p=3 |loc="The Druze world population at present is perhaps nearing two million; ..."}} {| class="wikitable" |+Adherents of minor Abrahamic faiths !Religion !Adherents |- |[[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]] |~8 million{{sfn |Smith |2022b}}<ref name="WRD 2020 Bahais" /> |- |[[Druze]] |1–2 million{{sfn |Held |2008 |p=109 |loc="Worldwide, they number 1 million or so, with about 45 to 50 percent in Syria, 35 to 40 percent in Lebanon, and less than 10 percent in Israel. Recently there has been a growing Druze diaspora."}}{{sfn |Swayd |2015 |p=3 |loc="The Druze world population at present is perhaps nearing two million; ..."}} |- |[[Rastafari]] |700,000-1 million<ref name="BBC Did God Have a Wife" /> |- |[[Mandaeism]] |60,000–100,000<ref name="Saheeh al-Bukharee">Saheeh al-Bukharee, Book 55, hadith no. 584; Book 56, hadith no. 710</ref><ref name="WMP">{{Cite web |title=The Mandaeans – Who are the Mandaeans? |url=http://mandaeanpriests.exeter.ac.uk/the-mandaeans |access-date=5 November 2021 |website=The Worlds of Mandaean Priests |archive-date=2 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202154541/http://mandaeanpriests.exeter.ac.uk/the-mandaeans |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[Azali Bábism]] |~1,000–2,000<ref name="Berger" />{{sfn |Lev |2010}} |- |[[Samaritanism]] |~840<ref name="The Samaritan Update">[http://www.thesamaritanupdate.com/ The Samaritan Update] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914114057/http://thesamaritanupdate.com/ |date=14 September 2017 }} Retrieved 28 October 2021 "Total [sic] in 2021 – 840 souls Total in 2018 – 810 souls Total number on 1.1.2017 – 796 persons, 381 souls on Mount Gerizim and 415 in the State of Israel, of the 414 males and 382 females."</ref> |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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