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It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. Median Age As a whole, Hindus are younger median age of 26 than the overall global population median age of Related Interactives Mar 8, For this report, we completed 29, face-to-face interviews, in 17 languages, with adults ages 18 and older living in 26 Indian states and three union territories.
The sample includes interviews with 22, Hindus, 3, Muslims, 1, Sikhs, 1, Christians, Buddhists and Jains. An additional 67 respondents belong to other religions or are religiously unaffiliated. Interviews for this nationally representative survey were conducted from Nov. Respondents were selected using a probability-based sample design that would allow for robust analysis of all major religious groups in India as well as all major regional zones.
Six groups were targeted for oversampling as part of the survey design: Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and those living in the Northeast region. Data was weighted to account for the different probabilities of selection among respondents and to align with demographic benchmarks for the Indian adult population from the census.
Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology. Indians value religious tolerance, though they also live religiously segregated lives. People in all six major religious groups overwhelmingly say they are very free to practice their faiths, and most say that people of other faiths also are very free to practice their own religion. For example, Indians generally say they do not have much in common with members of other religious groups, and large majorities in the six major groups say their close friends come mainly or entirely from their own religious community.
For many Hindus, national identity, religion and language are closely connected. Hindus who strongly link Hindu and Indian identities express a keen desire for religious segregation. The vast majority of Hindus in these regions strongly link Indian identity with being able to speak Hindi.
Among Hindus, views of national identity go hand-in-hand with politics. Support for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party BJP is greater among Hindus who closely associate their religious identity and the Hindi language with being truly Indian. These views also map onto regional support for the BJP, which tends to be much higher in the Northern and Central parts of the country than in the South.
Hindus traditionally view cows as sacred, and laws on cow slaughter have recently been a flashpoint in India. Muslims favor having access to their own religious courts. These courts are overseen by religious magistrates known as qazi and operate under Shariah principles, although their decisions are not legally binding. The United Kingdom has the ninth-largest Hindu population in the world with 1. This is about 1. Hinduism was present in the United Kingdom as early as the 19th century, when the British Empire had control over India.
Most of India's Hindu migration to the U. The country formerly known as Burma rounds out the top 10 with , Hindus, roughly 1. Hindus in Myanmar have adopted several concepts practiced by the country's more than 41 million Buddhists, including statues of Buddha in their Hindu temples. The exchange has been mutual, however, as Hindu influence can be seen in everything from Burmese architecture to the origin of the names Burma and Myanmar. Hindu Countries Principles of Hinduism: Hinduism, more so than any other religion, accepts and celebrates that truth or reality cannot be encapsulated and must be sought in multiple sources.
Countries with the highest percentage of Hindus: Hinduism is the third-largest religion worldwide, with approximately 1.
Oddly, Hinduism is the dominant religion in only three countries—but one of the three happens to be the second-most-populated country in the world: India - India India, unsurprisingly, has the largest Hindu population in the world at nearly 1. Nepal Nepal has the second-highest Hindu population with Bangladesh Bangladesh has the third-largest population of Hindus at almost Indonesia With a Hindu population of more than 4.
Pakistan Pakistan has nearly 4 million Hindus, comprising 1. Sri Lanka Hinduism is the oldest religion in Sri Lanka. Malaysia Malaysia has about 1. Myanmar Burma The country formerly known as Burma rounds out the top 10 with , Hindus, roughly 1.
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