Throughout the world there are seven main religious groups, where the

majority of the population can fit into one of the categories. As seen in
the graph below, the largest of these groups is Christianity, with 31.5%
of the population claiming to practice this faith. The other two religions
in the worldwide top three are those who report as being Muslims
(23.2%) and people who call
themselves unaffiliated
These three major religions are, for the
(16.3%).
most part, concentrated in a single area.
Christianity is the one exception being
extremely widespread. The faith began in
the Middle East and while it is no longer
prevalent in that area, it branched out over
the last couple thousand years until today it
is present in some way in virtually every
country. The Majority Religion, by Country
graph below depicts the areas where
Christianity is the majority religion, with the
darker red corresponding to a greater
majority. In respect to the Islam faith, the
graph tells a slightly different story. Though
the majority of Muslim people do live in
different areas, there are not nearly as
many countries with Islam the predominant
religion as seen in Christianity. Though it is
more concentrated, it can still be found in
two large, distinct places, in varying
degrees of predominance, also shown by
the shade of green used. Finally the
unaffiliated category is the only one of the
top three that can be found mainly in one

Christianity Religion 1
As stated before, the largest group of the top three is Christianity. The Regional
Distribution of Christians graph shows the number of Christians in each region of the
world. This graph tells us that the majority of practicing Christians reside in Europe,
even though we can see from the previous graph that not all European countries
regard Christianity as their majority religion. Unsurprisingly, we can see that the area
with the least amount of Christians is the Middle East, in which Christianity is not
considered a majority religion. There are, however, still a large number of Christian
people living there, most likely due to Christianity originating in the Middle East.
Though it has spread away, there are still many people there who practice the faith

By looking at the Regional Median Age of Christians Compared with Overall Median Ages,
2010 graph, we can conclude that Christians are, in general, older than the median age of
the population. There are a few discrepancies, found in Latin America-Caribbean and AsiaPacific, but for the most part the people who practice Christianity are older. This may be
due to some old-fashioned views taken in the faith, of which the older population agrees
with and supports, but the younger, more liberal members of the population are shying
away because of some of the more conservative views of the religion.

Islam Religion 2
The distribution of Muslims across the world tells a very different story than the
distribution of Christians. Here, the religion can see the majority of its members
concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region. The number of people in this region that
practice Islam is much higher than the numbers in any region who practiced
Christianity. However, unlike Christianity where a relatively similar amount of people
practiced in multiple regions, Muslims are clearly the minority in many other regions,
even those that have a significant number of Muslims living in the area. There are,
however, other regions besides the Asia-Pacific area where Muslims are clearly the
majority of people.

Contrary to the trend seen in Christians, the overall age of practicing Muslims in the
world is lower than the median population of the world. This is true for every region in
the world, with the gap between median Muslim age and median population age
widening as the regions become more developed. The region with the youngest
Muslims are the regions with the lowest median population, and oldest Muslims are
regions with an older median population.

Religiously Unaffiliated - Religion 3

The number of Religiously Unaffiliated people in the world is similar to the numbers
of Muslims in the world per region. The Regional Distribution of the Unaffiliated graph
shows the most people who consider themselves unaffiliated are also located in the
Asia-Pacific Region. However, opposite of Muslims, there is a very small amount of
people living in the Middle East-Africa region who are unaffiliated. Though it is the
third largest religion group in the world, it is clear just from the numbers of people
who are in this group that it is much smaller than the two biggest religious groups.

In regards to the median age of people who consider themselves Religiously

Unaffiliated, there is not really a specific trend. In some regions of the world the
median age is younger than the population; in others it is older. In North America the
populations median age is much older than those who are Religiously Unaffiliated,
which could potentially be described by the younger generations of America being
much more liberal than their older relatives, and therefore moving away from their
traditional religions. On the other hand, we dont see this phenomenon in places such
as the Asia-Pacific region, where the Religiously Unaffiliated median age is much