Bahá'í Community of the Isle of Wight
Statistics
In just over a century and a half the Bahá'í Faith has established itself in every continent and is now the second most widely spread faith after Christianity.
Africa 1,923,000 Asia 3,230,000 Europe 95,000 Latin Am. 722,000 North Am. 357,000 Oceania 77,000 World 6,404,000 Countries 210 Source: 1997 Britannica Year Book © Encyclopaedia Britannica
In just over a century and a half the Bahá'í Faith has become the world's seventh-largest organised religion.
est. number of followers
1 Christianity 1,927,953,000 2 Islam 1,099,634,000 3 Hinduism 780,547,000 4 Buddhism 323,894,000 5 Sikhism 19,161,000 6 Judaism 14,117,000 8 Confucianism 5,254,000 9 Jainism 4,886,000 10 Shintoism 2,844,000
Source: "The Top Ten of Everything 1998" by Russell Ash, DK Publishing, Inc.
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