Mapped: The Largest Religion in Every Country

Mapped: The Largest Religion in Every Country

Pew Research Center has completed its first comprehensive update of the world’s religious composition in more than a decade, revealing which religious group is largest across 201 countries and territories.

This map shows the largest religious group in every country based on self-identification as of 2020, using estimates from Pew Research Center’s Religious Composition by Country dataset, published in June 2025 and updated in February 2026.

Christianity is the World’s Leading Religion in 123 Countries

Christianity dominates the map across the Americas, Europe, much of sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. Islam forms another striking geographic belt, stretching from West Africa through the Middle East and into Central and South Asia.

The table below shows the largest religious group in each of the 201 countries and territories, its share of the population in 2020, and whether it holds an outright majority:

Country	Largest Religion (2020)	Share of Population (%)	Majority or Plurality
Timor-Leste	Christianity	99.5%	Majority
Moldova	Christianity	99.5%	Majority
Papua New Guinea	Christianity	99.1%	Majority
Micronesia	Christianity	98.8%	Majority
Romania	Christianity	98.5%	Majority
Zambia	Christianity	98.3%	Majority
Tonga	Christianity	97.8%	Majority
Samoa	Christianity	97.6%	Majority
Bahamas	Christianity	97.6%	Majority
Kiribati	Christianity	97.6%	Majority
Lesotho	Christianity	97.3%	Majority
Armenia	Christianity	97.3%	Majority
Rwanda	Christianity	97.0%	Majority
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Christianity	96.3%	Majority
Martinique	Christianity	96.0%	Majority
Guadeloupe	Christianity	95.9%	Majority
Solomon Islands	Christianity	95.0%	Majority
Burundi	Christianity	95.0%	Majority
Peru	Christianity	94.5%	Majority
U.S. Virgin Islands	Christianity	94.5%	Majority
Guam	Christianity	94.0%	Majority
Seychelles	Christianity	94.0%	Majority
Paraguay	Christianity	93.5%	Majority
French Polynesia	Christianity	93.4%	Majority
Eswatini	Christianity	93.2%	Majority
Angola	Christianity	93.0%	Majority
Republic of the Congo	Christianity	92.2%	Majority
Lithuania	Christianity	92.2%	Majority
Guatemala	Christianity	92.0%	Majority
Saint Lucia	Christianity	91.7%	Majority
Serbia	Christianity	91.5%	Majority
Philippines	Christianity	91.5%	Majority
Poland	Christianity	91.2%	Majority
Panama	Christianity	91.2%	Majority
Croatia	Christianity	90.9%	Majority
Central African Republic	Christianity	90.7%	Majority
Curaçao	Christianity	90.6%	Majority
Namibia	Christianity	90.5%	Majority
Greece	Christianity	89.5%	Majority
Mexico	Christianity	89.2%	Majority
Bolivia	Christianity	88.9%	Majority
Puerto Rico	Christianity	88.8%	Majority
Haiti	Christianity	88.7%	Majority
Equatorial Guinea	Christianity	88.7%	Majority
Malta	Christianity	88.6%	Majority
Ecuador	Christianity	88.5%	Majority
Honduras	Christianity	88.5%	Majority
Argentina	Christianity	88.5%	Majority
Georgia	Christianity	88.2%	Majority
Venezuela	Christianity	88.1%	Majority
Costa Rica	Christianity	87.9%	Majority
Uganda	Christianity	87.7%	Majority
Réunion	Christianity	87.5%	Majority
Grenada	Christianity	87.5%	Majority
Malawi	Christianity	87.4%	Majority
Zimbabwe	Christianity	87.2%	Majority
El Salvador	Christianity	87.1%	Majority
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Christianity	86.3%	Majority
Colombia	Christianity	86.2%	Majority
Kenya	Christianity	85.7%	Majority
South Africa	Christianity	85.3%	Majority
Channel Islands	Christianity	85.2%	Majority
Liberia	Christianity	85.2%	Majority
Belarus	Christianity	85.1%	Majority
New Caledonia	Christianity	85.1%	Majority
Portugal	Christianity	85.1%	Majority
Nicaragua	Christianity	84.8%	Majority
Sao Tome and Principe	Christianity	84.4%	Majority
French Guiana	Christianity	84.2%	Majority
Gabon	Christianity	83.7%	Majority
Vanuatu	Christianity	83.5%	Majority
Ukraine	Christianity	83.4%	Majority
Botswana	Christianity	82.3%	Majority
Aruba	Christianity	81.4%	Majority
Ireland	Christianity	81.2%	Majority
Brazil	Christianity	80.7%	Majority
Italy	Christianity	80.5%	Majority
Bulgaria	Christianity	79.5%	Majority
Cabo Verde	Christianity	78.3%	Majority
Dominican Republic	Christianity	77.6%	Majority
Barbados	Christianity	77.3%	Majority
Latvia	Christianity	77.3%	Majority
Denmark	Christianity	76.9%	Majority
Montenegro	Christianity	76.0%	Majority
Iceland	Christianity	74.9%	Majority
Belize	Christianity	74.4%	Majority
Madagascar	Christianity	74.2%	Majority
Slovakia	Christianity	73.7%	Majority
Hungary	Christianity	72.4%	Majority
Finland	Christianity	72.3%	Majority
Norway	Christianity	71.4%	Majority
Ghana	Christianity	71.3%	Majority
Trinidad and Tobago	Christianity	70.0%	Majority
Russia	Christianity	69.9%	Majority
Cameroon	Christianity	69.8%	Majority
Fiji	Christianity	69.5%	Majority
Spain	Christianity	69.5%	Majority
Jamaica	Christianity	68.6%	Majority
Chile	Christianity	68.3%	Majority
Austria	Christianity	68.2%	Majority
Cyprus	Christianity	67.7%	Majority
Luxembourg	Christianity	65.9%	Majority
Guyana	Christianity	65.9%	Majority
Slovenia	Christianity	65.4%	Majority
Tanzania	Christianity	64.7%	Majority
North Macedonia	Christianity	64.7%	Majority
United States	Christianity	64.0%	Majority
Switzerland	Christianity	61.6%	Majority
Ethiopia	Christianity	61.6%	Majority
Mozambique	Christianity	61.3%	Majority
Sweden	Christianity	60.8%	Majority
Cuba	Christianity	60.7%	Majority
South Sudan	Christianity	60.5%	Majority
Togo	Christianity	56.9%	Majority
Germany	Christianity	56.2%	Majority
Canada	Christianity	53.3%	Majority
Benin	Christianity	53.2%	Majority
Suriname	Christianity	52.8%	Majority
Estonia	Christianity	52.6%	Majority
Belgium	Christianity	51.0%	Majority
United Kingdom	Christianity	49.4%	Plurality
Australia	Christianity	46.8%	Plurality
France	Christianity	46.5%	Plurality
Yemen	Islam	99.9%	Majority
Afghanistan	Islam	99.9%	Majority
Somalia	Islam	99.8%	Majority
Iran	Islam	99.8%	Majority
Morocco	Islam	99.7%	Majority
Western Sahara	Islam	99.6%	Majority
Iraq	Islam	99.5%	Majority
Tunisia	Islam	99.3%	Majority
Mauritania	Islam	99.2%	Majority
Libya	Islam	99.0%	Majority
Palestinian territories	Islam	99.0%	Majority
Tajikistan	Islam	98.9%	Majority
Sudan	Islam	98.9%	Majority
Mayotte	Islam	98.8%	Majority
Algeria	Islam	98.4%	Majority
Comoros	Islam	98.3%	Majority
Niger	Islam	98.1%	Majority
Djibouti	Islam	97.7%	Majority
Senegal	Islam	97.6%	Majority
Türkiye	Islam	97.1%	Majority
Jordan	Islam	97.1%	Majority
Gambia	Islam	97.0%	Majority
Pakistan	Islam	96.5%	Majority
Uzbekistan	Islam	95.6%	Majority
Egypt	Islam	95.2%	Majority
Azerbaijan	Islam	94.7%	Majority
Turkmenistan	Islam	94.3%	Majority
Kosovo	Islam	94.3%	Majority
Syria	Islam	94.2%	Majority
Mali	Islam	94.1%	Majority
Maldives	Islam	94.1%	Majority
Saudi Arabia	Islam	92.7%	Majority
Kyrgyzstan	Islam	91.7%	Majority
Bangladesh	Islam	91.1%	Majority
Indonesia	Islam	87.0%	Majority
Guinea	Islam	86.8%	Majority
Brunei	Islam	82.2%	Majority
Oman	Islam	81.8%	Majority
Kuwait	Islam	80.2%	Majority
Sierra Leone	Islam	80.1%	Majority
Kazakhstan	Islam	77.9%	Majority
Qatar	Islam	75.9%	Majority
Albania	Islam	74.5%	Majority
Bahrain	Islam	74.0%	Majority
United Arab Emirates	Islam	72.9%	Majority
Lebanon	Islam	67.8%	Majority
Burkina Faso	Islam	67.4%	Majority
Malaysia	Islam	64.1%	Majority
Chad	Islam	56.4%	Majority
Nigeria	Islam	56.1%	Majority
Guinea-Bissau	Islam	56.0%	Majority
Bosnia-Herzegovina	Islam	53.6%	Majority
Eritrea	Islam	51.7%	Majority
Côte d’Ivoire	Islam	46.3%	Plurality
China	Religiously unaffiliated	89.6%	Majority
North Korea	Religiously unaffiliated	72.9%	Majority
Czechia	Religiously unaffiliated	72.8%	Majority
Hong Kong	Religiously unaffiliated	71.4%	Majority
Vietnam	Religiously unaffiliated	67.7%	Majority
Macao	Religiously unaffiliated	67.6%	Majority
Japan	Religiously unaffiliated	57.5%	Majority
Netherlands	Religiously unaffiliated	54.1%	Majority
Uruguay	Religiously unaffiliated	52.4%	Majority
New Zealand	Religiously unaffiliated	51.4%	Majority
South Korea	Religiously unaffiliated	48.3%	Plurality
Cambodia	Buddhism	97.1%	Majority
Thailand	Buddhism	94.4%	Majority
Myanmar	Buddhism	89.1%	Majority
Bhutan	Buddhism	74.7%	Majority
Sri Lanka	Buddhism	69.6%	Majority
Laos	Buddhism	64.2%	Majority
Mongolia	Buddhism	51.1%	Majority
Singapore	Buddhism	30.8%	Plurality
Nepal	Hinduism	81.2%	Majority
India	Hinduism	79.4%	Majority
Mauritius	Hinduism	48.3%	Plurality
Israel	Judaism	77.0%	Majority
Taiwan	Daoism	51.7%	Majority

The United States maintains a Christian majority at 64.0% of its population, while Canada stands at 53.3%. In the United Kingdom, the share of self-identifying Christians falls just short of a majority at 49.4%.

Yemen and Afghanistan are the most religiously uniform places on the map, at 99.9% Muslim, just ahead of the 99.5% Christian shares in Timor-Leste and Moldova.

Israel is the only country where Judaism is the largest religious group, at 77.0% of the population. Taiwan is similarly unique on the map, with Daoism leading at 51.7%.

Only Two Countries’ Leading Religion Changed Since 2010

Despite substantial shifts within countries, only New Zealand and Uruguay changed their largest religious group between 2010 and 2020. Both shifted from Christian-led populations to religiously unaffiliated majorities, at 51.4% and 52.4%, respectively.

They sit at the leading edge of a wider Western shift. Brazil’s 2022 census put the Catholic share of its population at 56.7%, down from 65.1% a decade earlier. Meanwhile, the share of Americans with no religion has settled near 29%, nearly double its 2007 level, even as the largest non-Christian religion varies widely from state to state.

The United Kingdom, Australia, and France may be next in line. In all three, Christianity now leads with less than half the population, while the runner-up is no religion at all.

Countries Where the Largest Religion Isn’t a Majority

In seven countries, the leading religion is a plurality rather than a majority: the UK, Australia, and France (Christian), Côte d’Ivoire (Muslim), South Korea (religiously unaffiliated), Mauritius (Hindu), and Singapore, where Buddhists lead with just 30.8%, the lowest leading share on the map.

Some countries carry bigger caveats. Côte d’Ivoire’s Muslim lead over Christians is just 1.4 percentage points, effectively too close to call. Nigeria’s 56.1% Muslim share is modeled because the country hasn’t asked about religion in a census since 1963.

The map’s two biggest cells are also its most uncertain. China’s 89.6% religiously unaffiliated share, covering 1.28 billion people, rests on a single survey question about formal religious identity that Pew itself calls a conservative measure of Buddhist and folk practice. India’s 79.4% Hindu share still carries forward figures from the 2011 census, and the country’s 2027 census will recount religion for the first time in 16 years.

For now, New Zealand and Uruguay are the only countries where the largest religious group changed between 2010 and 2020. But with Christianity already below 50% in the UK, Australia, and France, future updates could add more countries to that list.

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