Une nouvelle église catholique s’ouvre chaque jour de l’année en Chine, ce qui correspond actuellement aux 30 millions de catholiques (clandestins et officiels) en forte progression.
Avec les communautés protestantes évangéliques évaluées à 70 millions, cela fera de la Chine le premier pays chrétien en 2020- 2025. La répartition des appartenances confessionnelles dans le monde se modifie d’année en année, et les statistiques (sources diverses jamais identiques !) semblent déjà indiquer que l’islam pourrait être la 1ère religion mondiale en 2050.
S’il y a environ 1 milliard 500 millions d’agnostiques et de sans religion dans le monde, les fourchettes représentatives des religions et croyances donnent aujourd’hui, de manière mathématique – ce qui ne veut pas dire qualitative :
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1/Religions non bibliques :
- 1 milliard 700 millions de musulmans.
- 950 millions d’hindous.
- 500 millions de bouddhistes.
- 300 millions d’animistes.
- 250 millions d’adeptes de nouveaux mouvements religieux.
2/Religions bibliques :
- 14 millions de juifs
- 1 milliard 300 millions de catholiques romains.
- 650 millions d’évangéliques.
- 300 millions d’orthodoxes.
- 85 millions d’anglicans.
- 65 millions de luthériens.
- 50 millions de calvinistes.
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Reproduction autorisée avec la mention suivante : © Abbé Alain René Arbez, commission judeo-catholique de la conférence des évêques suisses et de la fédération suisse des communautés israélites, pour Dreuz.info.
Sans vouloir doubler l’article (excellent, comme d’habitude) de Mr l’Abbé ARBEZ, je rappelle ma recherche sur ce sujet :
– les différentes religions et croyances dans le Monde. Pour cela, cliquer ici
– les religions dans le Monde (carte datant d’un an ou deux). Pour cela, cliquer ici
merci de considérer l’islam comme non biblique même si le copiage est évident.
religion d’amour “de la violence” et de paix “éternelle” !
Si je reprends vos chiffres , cela signifie que 4 milliards de personnes seraient monothéiste , l’autre moitié , le reste de l’humanité a d’autres croyances fondées sur d’autres textes et pratiques ;
“1 milliard 700 millions de musulmans”
Avec saissinèpalislamme et “ce ne sont pas des musulmans” (exemple caractéristique : l’EI), il y en a réellement combien ?
Il y en aurait combien sans la menace permanente et bien réelle de la mise en mort pour “l’apostasie” ?
Tous ces chiffres !
On m’avait jadis baptisé sans que quiconque ait demandé mon avis. Par conséquent mon nom doit indubitablement figurer, mon nom à moi, l’absenThéiste jusqu’à la moelle, dawkinsien convaincu, quelque part dans des registres catholiques. Donc je participe, malgré moi, au “nombre”.
On vous a aussi changé de couche sans vous le demander.
Qui s’en plaindrait?
Mais vous avez raison sur le fonds : une juste évaluation des troupes est une condition sine qua non au succès d’une confrontation qui n’a rien de spirituelle.
Que cela ne vous empêche pas de vous convertir avec ferveur maintenant que vous êtes en chemin…
La signature de Dieu sur la Vérité véritable est sur la Croix.
aspirine: j’ai pris soin de spécifier que ces chiffres ne sont que des chiffres, des repères. Ils ont une valeur mathématique mais pas qualitative.
Ce qui ouvre des perspectives!
Merci Abbé Alain Arbez pour cet article.
Toutefois insuffisant en ce qui me concerne pour porter un jugement.
La seule source dont je disposais était le Mégacensus publié par l’Encyclopédia Britannica. J’ai les chiffres 2005, basés sur 5 milliards et demis d’habitants sur terre. Je crois qu’une mise à jour a été effectuée, mais je ne l’ai pas retrouvée.
Le gros problème est que Britannica a disparu.
Les chiffres du Megacensus (le monde en son entier, et un deuxième tableau pour les USA, étaient compilés par un pasteur américain.
Celui-ci, très honnête, aurait souhaité avoir une concurrence sur le sujet afin de valider ou infirmer les chiffres du Mégacensus.
Avec la fin de la Britannica, quelqu’un a-t-il pris la relève ?
Bien Cordialement
orldwide Adherents of All Religions, Mid-2005
Africa Asia Europe Latin America Northern America Oceania World % Number of Countries
Christians 410,973,000 350,633,000 553,271,000 517,107,000 275,364,000 26,458,000 2,133,806,000 33.1 238
Affiliated Christians 389,304,000 344,834,000 530,967,000 511,908,000 220,913,000 22,258,000 2,020,184,000 31.3 238
Roman Catholics 147,123,000 123,781,000 276,559,000 483,033,000 79,915,000 8,580,000 1,118,991,000 17.3 235
Independents 90,262,000 181,645,000 24,696,000 46,311,000 80,484,000 1,772,000 425,170,000 6.6 221
Protestants 118,513,000 57,641,000 70,760,000 55,141,000 65,990,000 7,770,000 375,815,000 5.8 232
Orthodox 38,865,000 13,244,000 159,042,000 886,000 6,684,000 780,000 219,501,000 3.4 134
Anglicans 44,480,000 743,000 25,656,000 914,000 2,950,000 4,975,000 79,718,000 1.2 163
Marginal Christians 3,395,000 3,183,000 4,551,000 10,812,000 11,561,000 649,000 34,151,000 0.5 215
Multiple affiliation -53,334,000 -35,403,000 -30,297,000 -85,189,000 -26,671,000 -2,268,000 -233,162,000 -3.6 163163
Unaffiliated Christians 21,669,000 5,799,000 22,304,000 5,199,000 54,451,000 4,200,000 113,622,000 1.8 232
Muslims 357,846,000 910,375,000 33,303,000 1,745,000 5,259,000 412,000 1,308,941,000 20.3 206
Hindus 2,637,000 853,371,000 1,465,000 770,000 1,469,000 421,000 860,133,000 13.3 116
Chinese universists 35,900 403,564,000 266,000 203,000 719,000 134,000 404,921,900 6.3 94
Buddhists 150,000 372,698,000 1,643,000 709,000 3,110,000 498,000 378,808,000 5.9 130
Ethnoreligionists 107,162,000 143,174,000 1,233,000 3,159,000 1,279,000 325,000 256,332,000 4.0 144
Neoreligionists 114,000 105,197,000 382,000 774,000 1,578,000 86,200 108,131,200 1.7 107
Sikhs 58,700 24,457,000 239,000 0 598,000 25,000 25,377,700 0.4 34
Jews 226,000 5,327,000 2,015,000 1,221,000 6,179,000 105,000 15,073,000 0.2 134
Spiritists 3,100 2,000 135,000 12,721,000 162,000 7,400 13,030,500 0.2 56
Baha’is 1,964,000 3,730,000 146,000 827,000 859,000 124,000 7,650,000 0.1 218
Confucianists 300 6,402,000 16,700 800 0 51,100 6,470,900 0.1 16
Jains 76,100 4,505,000 0 0 8,000 700 4,589,800 0.1 11
Shintoists 0 2,721,000 0 7,200 61,000 0 2,789,200 0.0 8
Taoists 0 2,722,000 0 0 12,000 0 2,734,000 0.0 5
Zoroastrians 900 2,471,000 90,500 0 82,400 3,200 2,648,000 0.0 23
Other religionists 80,000 70,000 260,000 110,000 670,000 10,000 1,200,000 0.0 78
Nonreligious 6,042,000 602,308,000 108,304,000 16,139,000 32,656,000 3,930,000 769,379,000 11.9 237
Atheists 595,000 123,781,000 21,952,000 2,787,000 2,090,000 407,000 151,612,000 2.3 219
Total population 887,964,000 3,917,508,000 724,722,000 558,280,000 332,156,000 32,998,000 6,453,628,000 100.0 238
Continents. These follow current UN demographic terminology, which now divides the world into the six major areas shown above. See United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision (New York: UN, 2003), with populations of all continents, regions, and countries covering the period 1950-2050, with 100 variables for every country each year. Note that “Asia” includes the former Soviet Central Asian states and “Europe” includes all of Russia eastward to the Pacific.
Countries. The last column enumerates sovereign and nonsovereign countries in which each religion or religious grouping has a numerically significant and organized following.
Adherents. As defined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a person’s religion is what he or she professes, confesses, or states that it is. Totals are enumerated for each of the world’s 238 countries following the methodology of the World Christian Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (2001), and World Christian Trends (2001), using recent censuses, polls, surveys, yearbooks, reports, Web sites, literature, and other data. See the World Christian Database for more detail. Religions are ranked in order of size in mid-2005.
Christians. Followers of Jesus Christ, enumerated here under Affiliated Christians, those affiliated with churches (church members, with names written on church rolls, usually total number of baptized persons, including children baptized, dedicated, or undedicated); total in 2005 being 2,020,184,000, shown above divided among the six standardized ecclesiastical blocs and with (negative and italicized) figures for those persons with Multiple affiliation (all who are baptized members of more than one denomination, italicized and not to be added to other denominations here) and Unaffiliated Christians, who are persons professing or confessing in censuses or polls to be Christians though not so affiliated.
Independents. This term here denotes members of Christian churches and networks that regard themselves as postdenominationalist and neo-apostolic and thus independent of historic, mainstream, organized, institutionalized, confessional, denominationalist Christianity.
Marginal Christians. Members of denominations who define themselves as Christians but who are on the margins of organized mainstream Christianity (e.g., Unitarians, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, and Religious Science).
Muslims. 84% Sunnites, 14% Shi’ites, 2% other schools.
Hindus. 68% Vaishnavites, 27% Shaivites, 2% neo-Hindus and reform Hindus.
Chinese universists. Followers of a unique complex of beliefs and practices that may include: universism (yin/yang cosmology with dualities earth/heaven, evil/good, darkness/light), ancestor cult, Confucian ethics, divination, festivals, folk religion, goddess worship, household gods, local deities, mediums, metaphysics, monasteries, neo-Confucianism, popular religion, sacrifices, shamans, spirit writing, and Taoist and Buddhist elements.
Buddhists. 56% Mahayana, 38% Theravada (Hinayana), 6% Tantrayana (Lamaism).
Ethnoreligionists. Followers of local, tribal, animistic, or shamanistic religions, with members restricted to one ethnic group.
Neoreligionists. Followers of Asian 20th-century neoreligions, neoreligious movements, radical new crisis religions, and non-Christian syncretistic mass religions.
Jews. Adherents of Judaism. For detailed data on “core” Jewish population, see the annual “World Jewish Populations” article in the American Jewish Committee’s American Jewish Year Book.
Confucianists. Non-Chinese followers of Confucius and Confucianism, mostly Koreans in Korea.
Other religionists. Including a handful of religions, quasi-religions, pseudoreligions, parareligions, religious or mystic systems, and religious and semireligious brotherhoods of numerous varieties.
Nonreligious. Persons professing no religion, nonbelievers, agnostics, freethinkers, uninterested, or dereligionized secularists indifferent to all religion but not militantly so.
Atheists. Persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including the militantly antireligious (opposed to all religion).
Total population. UN medium variant figures for mid-2005, as given in World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision.
Version 2005 publié par la dernière édition de Britannica (2014 je crois ?)
A tes souhaits
orldwide Adherents of All Religions, Mid-2005
Africa Asia Europe Latin America Northern America Oceania World % Number of Countries
Christians 410,973,000 350,633,000 553,271,000 517,107,000 275,364,000 26,458,000 2,133,806,000 33.1 238
Affiliated Christians 389,304,000 344,834,000 530,967,000 511,908,000 220,913,000 22,258,000 2,020,184,000 31.3 238
Roman Catholics 147,123,000 123,781,000 276,559,000 483,033,000 79,915,000 8,580,000 1,118,991,000 17.3 235
Independents 90,262,000 181,645,000 24,696,000 46,311,000 80,484,000 1,772,000 425,170,000 6.6 221
Protestants 118,513,000 57,641,000 70,760,000 55,141,000 65,990,000 7,770,000 375,815,000 5.8 232
Orthodox 38,865,000 13,244,000 159,042,000 886,000 6,684,000 780,000 219,501,000 3.4 134
Anglicans 44,480,000 743,000 25,656,000 914,000 2,950,000 4,975,000 79,718,000 1.2 163
Marginal Christians 3,395,000 3,183,000 4,551,000 10,812,000 11,561,000 649,000 34,151,000 0.5 215
Multiple affiliation -53,334,000 -35,403,000 -30,297,000 -85,189,000 -26,671,000 -2,268,000 -233,162,000 -3.6 163163
Unaffiliated Christians 21,669,000 5,799,000 22,304,000 5,199,000 54,451,000 4,200,000 113,622,000 1.8 232
Muslims 357,846,000 910,375,000 33,303,000 1,745,000 5,259,000 412,000 1,308,941,000 20.3 206
Hindus 2,637,000 853,371,000 1,465,000 770,000 1,469,000 421,000 860,133,000 13.3 116
Chinese universists 35,900 403,564,000 266,000 203,000 719,000 134,000 404,921,900 6.3 94
Buddhists 150,000 372,698,000 1,643,000 709,000 3,110,000 498,000 378,808,000 5.9 130
Ethnoreligionists 107,162,000 143,174,000 1,233,000 3,159,000 1,279,000 325,000 256,332,000 4.0 144
Neoreligionists 114,000 105,197,000 382,000 774,000 1,578,000 86,200 108,131,200 1.7 107
Sikhs 58,700 24,457,000 239,000 0 598,000 25,000 25,377,700 0.4 34
Jews 226,000 5,327,000 2,015,000 1,221,000 6,179,000 105,000 15,073,000 0.2 134
Spiritists 3,100 2,000 135,000 12,721,000 162,000 7,400 13,030,500 0.2 56
Baha’is 1,964,000 3,730,000 146,000 827,000 859,000 124,000 7,650,000 0.1 218
Confucianists 300 6,402,000 16,700 800 0 51,100 6,470,900 0.1 16
Jains 76,100 4,505,000 0 0 8,000 700 4,589,800 0.1 11
Shintoists 0 2,721,000 0 7,200 61,000 0 2,789,200 0.0 8
Taoists 0 2,722,000 0 0 12,000 0 2,734,000 0.0 5
Zoroastrians 900 2,471,000 90,500 0 82,400 3,200 2,648,000 0.0 23
Other religionists 80,000 70,000 260,000 110,000 670,000 10,000 1,200,000 0.0 78
Nonreligious 6,042,000 602,308,000 108,304,000 16,139,000 32,656,000 3,930,000 769,379,000 11.9 237
Atheists 595,000 123,781,000 21,952,000 2,787,000 2,090,000 407,000 151,612,000 2.3 219
Total population 887,964,000 3,917,508,000 724,722,000 558,280,000 332,156,000 32,998,000 6,453,628,000 100.0 238
Continents. These follow current UN demographic terminology, which now divides the world into the six major areas shown above. See United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision (New York: UN, 2003), with populations of all continents, regions, and countries covering the period 1950-2050, with 100 variables for every country each year. Note that “Asia” includes the former Soviet Central Asian states and “Europe” includes all of Russia eastward to the Pacific.
Countries. The last column enumerates sovereign and nonsovereign countries in which each religion or religious grouping has a numerically significant and organized following.
Adherents. As defined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a person’s religion is what he or she professes, confesses, or states that it is. Totals are enumerated for each of the world’s 238 countries following the methodology of the World Christian Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (2001), and World Christian Trends (2001), using recent censuses, polls, surveys, yearbooks, reports, Web sites, literature, and other data. See the World Christian Database for more detail. Religions are ranked in order of size in mid-2005.
Christians. Followers of Jesus Christ, enumerated here under Affiliated Christians, those affiliated with churches (church members, with names written on church rolls, usually total number of baptized persons, including children baptized, dedicated, or undedicated); total in 2005 being 2,020,184,000, shown above divided among the six standardized ecclesiastical blocs and with (negative and italicized) figures for those persons with Multiple affiliation (all who are baptized members of more than one denomination, italicized and not to be added to other denominations here) and Unaffiliated Christians, who are persons professing or confessing in censuses or polls to be Christians though not so affiliated.
Independents. This term here denotes members of Christian churches and networks that regard themselves as postdenominationalist and neo-apostolic and thus independent of historic, mainstream, organized, institutionalized, confessional, denominationalist Christianity.
Marginal Christians. Members of denominations who define themselves as Christians but who are on the margins of organized mainstream Christianity (e.g., Unitarians, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, and Religious Science).
Muslims. 84% Sunnites, 14% Shi’ites, 2% other schools.
Hindus. 68% Vaishnavites, 27% Shaivites, 2% neo-Hindus and reform Hindus.
Chinese universists. Followers of a unique complex of beliefs and practices that may include: universism (yin/yang cosmology with dualities earth/heaven, evil/good, darkness/light), ancestor cult, Confucian ethics, divination, festivals, folk religion, goddess worship, household gods, local deities, mediums, metaphysics, monasteries, neo-Confucianism, popular religion, sacrifices, shamans, spirit writing, and Taoist and Buddhist elements.
Buddhists. 56% Mahayana, 38% Theravada (Hinayana), 6% Tantrayana (Lamaism).
Ethnoreligionists. Followers of local, tribal, animistic, or shamanistic religions, with members restricted to one ethnic group.
Neoreligionists. Followers of Asian 20th-century neoreligions, neoreligious movements, radical new crisis religions, and non-Christian syncretistic mass religions.
Jews. Adherents of Judaism. For detailed data on “core” Jewish population, see the annual “World Jewish Populations” article in the American Jewish Committee’s American Jewish Year Book.
Confucianists. Non-Chinese followers of Confucius and Confucianism, mostly Koreans in Korea.
Other religionists. Including a handful of religions, quasi-religions, pseudoreligions, parareligions, religious or mystic systems, and religious and semireligious brotherhoods of numerous varieties.
Nonreligious. Persons professing no religion, nonbelievers, agnostics, freethinkers, uninterested, or dereligionized secularists indifferent to all religion but not militantly so.
Atheists. Persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including the militantly antireligious (opposed to all religion).
Total population. UN medium variant figures for mid-2005, as given in World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision.
https://books.google.fr/books?id=EeqbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=megacensus+encyclopaedia+Britannica&source=bl&ots=ESbg6nMQNC&sig=BQlWqK8TnLdDBgEkJw9yg2s3NA4&hl=
Désolé pour le doublon. Si vous pouvez enlever le doublon 2005, merci.
Le lien ci-dessus est une mise à jour du tableau 2005 pour mi-2011.
https://books.google.fr/books?id=EeqbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=megacensus+encyclopaedia+Britannica&source=bl&ots=ESbg6nMQNC&sig=BQlWqK8TnLdDBgEkJw9yg2s3NA4&hl=
Mise à jour mi 2011 : 7 milliards d’habitants dans le monde. Tableau difficile à lire.
Je suis désolé. Il faudrait l’original excel.
https://books.google.fr/books?id=EeqbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=megacensus+encyclopaedia+Britannica&source=bl&ots=ESbg6nMQNC&sig=BQlWqK8TnLdDBgEkJw9yg2s3NA4&hl=
Lien pour mise à jour du Megacensus pour mi-2011.
Comme patphil, j’apprécie que Mr. L’abbé Arbez n’ait pas inclus l’islam dans les religions bibliques.
Pour ce qui est du nombre, nous voyons avec joie que nous sommes plus nombreux que les musulmans. En effet, les religions bibliques ont environ 2 500 000 000d’adeptes. Tandis que la religion du Livre, religion concurrente mais complètement dévoyée n’en a que 1 700 000 000.
Et Mr. l’abbé nous apprend que le christianisme progresse en Chine, ce qui nous permet d’espérer qu’un jour l’anomalie de l’ islam sera surmontée par la sagesse.
Et puis, nous pouvons saluer au passage, avec reconnaissance et affection, les 65 000 000 de juifs qui nous rappellent notre origine biblique.
Monsieur l’Abbé, vous semblez ignorer les 15 millions de mormons de religion biblique, soit l’équivalent du peuple juif !
le fait de compter les mormons dans les religions bibliques est discuté, en raison d’un troisième “testament” s’ajoutant au premier et au nouveau testament des chrétiens.
ici, les mormons sont comptés dans les nouveaux mouvements religieux (récents).
Marginal Christians. Members of denominations who define themselves as Christians but who are on the margins of organized mainstream Christianity (e.g., Unitarians, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, and Religious Science)
Tiré du copier coller extrait de la Britannica-Megacensus.
L’islam ne doit pas figurer sur la liste des religions, car l’islam est une secte.
Je confirme
Tout à fait vrai !