How much of the world's population is Budhism?

Answer 1

"The number of Buddhists in the world is estimated at 2000 million (1,921,989,641 million) adherents but the generally agreed number is 600 million. Approximately 600 million Theravada Buddhists in the world. These statistics make the religion the worlds second largest in terms of numbers," many Chinese historians and Burmese historians said.

Buddhism is a main religion of the Asian continent it practices tranquillity and preaches peace to its followers. Currently there are about 1.3 billion Chinese Buddhists living in the People's Republic of the CHINA .

The number of Buddhists around the world is grossly underestimated. The statistics found in nearly all encyclopedias and almanacs place the number of Buddhists at approximately 500 million. This figure completely ignores over one billion Chinese people who live in the People's Republic of China. China is officially communist (although many free market conditions are already in place) and does not keep records on religion statistics of adherents. Also, many western reference sources refuse to accept that a person can belong to more than one religion. In Asia it is quite common for one person to have two, three, or more religions. In China, it is common for a family to have a shrine in their home with statues and icons from Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism.

Currently there are about 1.3 billion Chinese living in the People's Republic. Surveys (Gach-Alpha Books, U.S. State Dept. report on China, Global Center for the Study of Contemporary China, BBC News, China Daily, and a report by Christian missionaries in China) have found that about 8% to 91% identify with Buddhism as one of their religions. If we use a percent near the upper end of this estimate, of about 80% it works out to over1.1 billion ChinaBuddhists.

Answer 2

the buddist population is about 240 millon it is the 5th larget religion from Christianity Islam Hinduism and Sikhism