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.
There are many times more people in the world practicing Christianity than Buddhism.
How many people in the world practice Buddhism?
Buddhists are found among all the world's people. Most cultures in the world have Buddhist followers and accept them. Buddhism is least prevalent in Africa, Ilamic countries in the Middle East and most prevalent in Asia.
Buddhism has about 365 million followers at the moment.
535 million people
6%
All over the world
The main religion in North Korea is Buddhism and Confucianism which is followed by more than a billion people in the world.
The number of adherents to Buddhism is usually given as about 500 million worldwide.
No, although Buddhism originated in India it is now followed by people across the world.
376 million
one billion