In the 1990s, it was estimated that there were approximately 350 to 500 million Buddhists worldwide. This number varied due to differing definitions of who qualifies as a Buddhist and the challenges of accurately counting adherents in various regions. The largest populations of Buddhists were found in countries like China, Japan, Thailand, and Myanmar. Overall, Buddhism continued to grow during this decade, particularly in Western countries.
There are around 375 million Buddhists worldwide. == There are about 1.2 to 1.6 billion Buddhists throughout the world as of 2008.
Beginning in the early 1990s, many African nations joined the worldwide trend toward democracy.
Beginning in the early 1990s, many African nations joined the worldwide trend toward democracy.
So many people use "church" to refer to a building. Believers use it to refer to the worldwide group of believers in Christ.
About 370 million worldwide, making it the fourth largest religion in the world.
Because Buddhism is taught in many different ways; through books, teacher-student relationship as well as the direct experience of mind it is probably taught in many different nations of the world in all kinds of conditions.
Buddhism is practiced worldwide, with a significant presence in countries like Thailand, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet. It has also gained popularity in the West, with many practitioners in Europe and the United States. Buddhism continues to evolve as it adapts to different cultures and modern contexts.
Its ever changing somerwhere between 1,890 and 1,915 in the USA. Thats down from 3,500 in mid 1990s.
The number of adherents to Buddhism is usually given as about 500 million worldwide.
As of 2011, the "adherents" of Judaism were estimated at 14 million worldwide, or 0.2% of world population. According to the same estimated census: Christians: 2.255 billion, 33.4% Muslims: 1.434 billion, 21.2% Note: unlike Christianity and Islam, about 14% of Jews are secular or cultural Jews only.
There are approximately 1.2 billion Hindus worldwide, making Hinduism the third largest religion globally. The majority of Hindus reside in India, but there are significant populations in countries such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and various other parts of the world.
On almost every account they are different. Buddhism is a philosophy as Shinto is a religion. Buddhism originated in northern India, Shinto in Japan. Shinto has gods, Buddhism is non theistic.Aside from having followers in Japan and generally supporting good behaviour over bad, there isn't a lot of overlap.