People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing them after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus WASHINGTON — People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing them after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus.Exact numbers for religious populations are impossible to obtain and estimates for the size of the larger faiths can vary by hundreds of millions.A study by the Washington-based Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, released on Tuesday, appears to be one of the most extensive to date.The study, based on extensive data for the year 2010, also showed Islam and Hinduism are mostly likely to expand in the future, while the Jewish faith has the weakest growth prospects.Christianity is the most evenly spread religion, present in all regions of the world, while 94% of Hindus are in India.Overall, 84% ...
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