Question 4
What is the most popular religion in the world today?
Answer
The Christian religion is now the most popular religion in the world with approximately 2.4 billion people claiming to be members in 2020. The Muslim religion is the second largest religion. See the World Religions pie chart below.
Answer
About one third of the world’s population today calls themselves Christian. However, there are many different divisions or denominations among Christianity. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia there are more than 34,000 official Christian denominations each believing a little differently from each other.