English: These percentages seem contradictory to sources referenced in WP elsewhere.

E.g. the source quoted below shows ~372MM Buddhists living in entire Asia.

According to en:Demography of the People's Republic of China#Religion, there are >600MM Buddhists in PRC alone. They seem highly contradictory.

RC 09:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

The Brittanica is beulow as the source for the raw data. Unless there is some mismatch between the figure and the Brittanica, that should be sufficient. Other Wikipedia pages are not considered referencable sources under Wikipedia policy, and it is rather obvious that different sources will have different estimates of such information (due to differences in definition, differences in measurement methodology, etc.). —Wookipedian 05:39, 24 August 2007 (UTC)test

Nonreligious are atheists.--Damifb (talk) 21:01, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually, atheism and irreligion can be quite different, but are easily confused. --Onetruetweedle (talk) 00:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Is there closure on this issue? It is still vague/obscure/uncertain.

First - thanks for fixing my typo! Doh! Secondly, since I used source data to generate the original image I don't want to change it otherwise it could be considered original research. Finally, I personally believe that there is a big difference between being Non-religious and an Atheist. An Atheist is somebody who believes that there is no God with the same conviction that a Theist or Deist believes that there is a God. Somebody who is non-religious may not adhere to any particular religion, but has not discounted the possibility that a God exists - they may also be agnostic. I would probably put myself in the non-religious camp but would probably not call myself an atheist. Bryces (talk) 01:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

That's a rather generalist definition of atheism, what you described is the branch called "Strong atheism"; the belief there are no god(s). Whereas "Weak atheism", probably the most common of the two, is the disbelief in any gods. You can look up the definitions here; en:Weak and strong atheism -ramz- (talk) 07:08, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Chinese Universists are not described in wikipedia, nor in the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Why is there no information on what is described here as one of the world's major religions? --aaftabj-- (talk) 02:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Versioning

This is a modified version of en:Image:Worldwide_percentage_of_Adherants_by_Religion.png, with the typo corrected. The original is in the public domain so I assume this is as well.

Summary

Author: Steve Bryce Bryces 17:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Source: Data taken from 'Worldwide Adherents of All Religions, Mid-2005', Encyclopaedia Britannica^[1]. File was created by me using Microsoft Excel 2007 and Irfanview 3.99.