World Religions Population 2024. The country currently has 20,833,116 followers, which accounts for 89.75% of the global population. Overall, 1.72% of the country's total population belongs to the sikh faith.

About 85% of the world’s people identify with a religion. It is estimated that as many as 506 million people around the world practice buddhism as a religion, which would represent roughly 6.6% of the world’s total population.