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Top 14 Religions in India

This curated ranking covers the 14 largest religions in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Hinduism, Jesus and Jainism lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 23M people. Across all 14 entries the average audience size is 1.8M, and the largest, Hinduism, reaches around 17M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each religion, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 14, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Hinduism 17M 32.2 24.5% Religion
2 Jesus 3.5M 32.8 26.2% Religion
3 Jainism 1.9M 33.8 22.0% Religion
4 Judaism 873k 33.9 19.2% Religion
5 Haitian Vodou 729k 27.2 18.8% Religion
6 Chinese folk religion 395k 34.6 22.5% Religion
7 Taoism 252k 35.9 29.3% Religion
8 Zoroastrianism 105k 34.7 18.4% Religion
9 Confucianism 73k 38.1 50.7% Religion
10 Wicca 57k 27.0 38.8% Religion
11 Lutheranism 54k 36.2 27.1% Religion
12 Modern paganism 21k 22.3 51.3% Religion
13 Tao 21k 29.5 23.1% Religion
14 Louisiana Voodoo 9.1k 32.6 0.0% Religion

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 14 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each religion by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest religion in India?

Hinduism currently leads with an estimated audience of 17M people in India.

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