What is the number of followers in shintoism?

Answer 1

It depends on how you count it. Most Japanese (roughly 80% of the 135 million population -- 108 million) are Shintoists in name, but rarely pray and only visit a Shinto Shrine once or twice a year (usually for New Year festivals).

Answer 2

It depends on how you count it. 80% of the Japanese population may practice some Shinto rituals, or roughly 102 million people. However, most Japanese who practice these rituals would not consider themselves Shintoists, a term they typically reserve for clergy, which total 20,000 or so.

Answer 3

Around the 4 million mark according to Adherents.com

Answer 4

There are about 2.7 million Shitno followers, but most of them also worship Buddha.(Buddhists)

Answer 5

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no no.......... if you closely reseach around 65% of Japan are followers.

Answer 6

3-4million adherents, though most resources report that the number of adherents are hopelessly unreliable.

Answer 7

the religion shintoism has approximately 2.7 million people that follow

Answer 8

There are 2.7 million Shinto followers in the world today. : )

Technicaly there is 2. 9 million because most people that follow shintoism are also buddist.

Answer 9

There are approximately 4 million followers of Shintoism worldwide. The Shinto religion was founded in Japan in 660 BC. There are 100,000 Shinto shrines in Japan.