Today, most Buddhists are birth certificate Buddhists. There are estimated 1.6 billion of this kind of Buddhists.
The estimates range between 330 million and just over 1 billion.
6% of the world's population (376 million) is Buddhist
It is a common religion in Asia and has more followers there and has come slighty into western culture however for exact numbers go to this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_by_country also cambodia has the highest number of buddhsits
The total population of buddhists around the world is estimated 489,325,203 or 690,364,656 or 1,512,013,359. In Asia, the population is 4,049,434,182 approx. In Africa, it is 927,300,414 approx. In Europe it is 746,510,190 approx. In Oceania approximately 32,021,885 buddhists live. In the Americas the estimated Buddhist population is 915,959,330. China is the first country in terms of Buddhist population. Next are Japan and Vietnam.
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The number of Buddhists in the world is estimated at 350 millions (roughly 6% of the world population.
almost everyone in Korea are Buddhist i am not from Korea but i am a Buddhist by maekenna spence
The World Population is 12500
Most eastimates indiccate about 6% of the world population (420 to 500 million of 7 billion total population) is Buddhist. The number is difficult to determine as some countries with large populations (e.g. China) do not provide supportable data.
There are approximately 3,324,047,000 men in the world, out of a total population of 6,615,852,000. This represents 50.24% of the total population.
As of 2021, China's population is estimated to be around 18.41% of the total world population.
The figures for the percent of Buddhists in Europe is constantly changing. The most recent figures I found from 2007 are as follows: Total Population- 746,510,190 Buddhists- 24,067,283 Percentage- 3.22%
As of 2013, the world's total population was estimated at 7.17 billion, by USCB.