Home›Sources›Countries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020SourcesCountries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020Pew Research Center, June 9, 2025Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Countries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/pew-2025-hindu-population-change.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Countries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/pew-2025-hindu-population-changeCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-countries-with-the-most-hindus-global-hi, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Countries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/pew-2025-hindu-population-change}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXPew Research Center's June 9, 2025 report on how the global religious landscape changed from 2010 to 2020, finding the number of Hindus worldwide grew 12 percent in that decade, from a little under 1.1 billion in 2010 to nearly 1.2 billion in 2020, with 99 percent of the global Hindu population in the Asia-Pacific region and about 95 percent of all Hindus living in India.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (16 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1The same 2025 modeling exercise cited for Buddhists above, applied to Hindus; unlike the Buddhist figure, this report's 2010 Hindu total (a little under 1.1 billion) sits close to the original 2012 report's figure (about 1 billion) for the same year, so the two Hindu sources are a mild revision rather than the sharp divergence seen for Buddhists, and the report states non-Hindus grew at about the same rate so Hindus' global population share stayed stable across the decade.CitationPublisherWell-attestedPew Research CenterPublication YearWell-attested2025URLWell-attestedhttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/06/09/hindu-population-change/Source TypeWell-attestedDemographic studyCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithAsia, Continents Well-attested This source names Asia directly: "of the global Hindu population in the Asia-Pacific region and about 95 percent of all Hindus living in India."Source Countries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020tier 1Global, Continents Well-attested This source names Global directly: "June 9, 2025 report on how the global religious landscape changed from 2010 to 2020, finding the number of Hindus worldwide grew 12 percent in that decade, from a little under 1.1 billion in 2010 to..."Source Countries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020tier 1India, Countries Well-attested This source names India directly: "95 percent of all Hindus living in India."Source Countries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020tier 1Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 3 holds.Religions, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested12ReligionsHinduismSourcesCountries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020Holds3SourcesCountries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020General References1ReligionsHinduismComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year