Christianity

Christianity is a widespread minority religion in Asia with more than 286 million adherents according to Pew Research
Center in 2010,[44] and nearly 364 million according to Britannica Book of the Year 2014.[45] constituting around 12.6%
of the total population of Asia.

Only six countries are predominantly Christian: Asian Russia which is predominantly the Russian Orthodox Church
;Cyprus, which is predominantly Orthodox; the Philippines, which is the third-largest Roman Catholic nation in the
world;[46] Timor Leste, which is the most overwhelming Christian (99.6%) and Roman Catholic nation in Asia (97.6%)[47]
; Armenia, which was the first state to adopt a Christian denomination as its state religion; and Georgia. Christianity also
accounts for 29.2% of South Korea's population (54.5% of its religious population) and is now the predominant religion
in South Korea, Christianity is also a large minority religion in Lebanon accounting for 40% of its population.[48]
Christianity is also a large minority religion in Kazakhstan (26%),[49] Singapore (18.3%),[50] and Kyrgyzstan (17%).

Asian countries with large Christian populations are Philippines (84 million),[46] China (68 million),[51] India (24
million),[52] Indonesia (23 million), Kazakhstan (16.5 million), South Korea (15 million), Vietnam (7 million),[53] Georgia
(4.6 million),[54] Armenia (3.2 million),[55] Malaysia (2.6 million),[56] Japan (2.5 million), Pakistan (2.5 million),[57]
Uzbekistan (2.5 million),[58] Syria (1.8 million),[59] Sri Lanka (1.5 million)[60], East Timor (1.2 million)[47] and Taiwan
(one million).[61]

Adherents % Adherents % 1910–2010 2000–2010

Agnosticism 3,369,000 0.2 676,944,000 9.8 5.45 0.32

Atheism 243,000 0.0 136,652,000 2.0 6.54 0.05

Bahá'í Faith 225,000 0.0 7,306,000 0.1 3.54 1.72

Buddhism 138,064,000 7.9 494,881,000 7.2 1.28 0.99

Chinese folk religion 390,504,000 22.2 436,258,000 6.3 0.11 0.16

Christianity 611,810,000 34.8 2,260,440,000 32.8 1.32 1.31

Confucianism 760,000 0.0 6,449,000 0.1 2.16 0.36

Daoism 437,000 0.0 8,429,000 0.1 3.00 1.73

Ethnoreligion 135,074,000 7.7 242,516,000 3.5 0.59 1.06

Hinduism 223,383,000 12.7 948,575,000 13.8 1.46 1.41

Islam 221,749,000 12.6 1,553,773,000 22.5 1.97 1.86

Jainism 1,446,000 0.1 5,316,000 0.1 1.31 1.53

Judaism13,193,000 0.8 17,064,000 0.2 0.11 1.02

New religion 6,865,000 0.4 63,004,000 0.9 2.24 0.29

Shinto 7,613,000 0.4 2,761,000 0.0 −1.01 0.09

Sikhism 3,232,000 0.2 23,927,000 0.3 2.02 1.54

Spiritualism 324,000 0.0 13,700,000 0.2 3.82 0.94

Zoroastrianism 98,000 0.0 192,000 0.0 0.51 0.74

Total Population: 1,758,412,000 100.0 6,895,889,000 100.0 1.38 1.20