How many Hindus are in Europe?

[callahan]

Now a days Hinduism is being accepted every way (especially in European countries) and people are coming to this thought process willingly on their own ..so How many Hindus are in Europe in present period ?
Why are Europeans so rapidly coming or converting to this faith even thou Hinduism doesn't have any concept of conversion.

Thanks

 

[paul linus]

There are a total of 2,030,904 Hindus in Europe, which is just 0.278 percent of the total population. I took the figure from Wikipedia.

 

[Nil Thapliyal]

Do you know Paul that there are about 15 percent Hindus in world population. The highest of course is in India and next is in Nepal with 79.8 percent and 81.3 percent respectively.

 

[paul linus]

Yes, very true. The global Hindu population is less than Islam and Christianity.

The global Muslim population is 23.2 percent and that of Christians is 31.5 percent.

So, it can be said that Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world.

 

[Nil Thapliyal]

In Europe Hindus are mostly found in the Eastern Europe and Western Europe with 0.337 percent and 0.348 percent population respectively. The least is found in Central Europe and Balkans.

 

[paul linus]

If you take a look at Hindus in North America, it is 0.478 percent, which is more than Eastern and Western Europe.

 

[Nil Thapliyal]

The spread of Hinduism is in its charm that it has no centralized religious authorities, no traditional ecclesiastical order, no governing body, and also no prophet.

 

[paul linus]

Yes, it is very true. Hindus can choose to be pantheistic, monotheistic, polytheistic, agnostic, monistic, atheistic and humanist. Due to this diversity of thought Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world.

 

[Nil Thapliyal]

Due to such diversity of thought Hinduism is also practised by the Tengger of Java, Balamon Cham of Vietnam and Balinese of Bali. They are all non-indic people.

 

[paul linus]

Yes. Bali has 84 percent of Hindu population. It is an island city of Indonesia, which has a Hindu population of just 1.69 percent.