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In this sections of our charts feature, you will find a number of bar charts seeking to depict and address the issue of counting adherents to the various world faiths. These charts are meant to be informative, providing a visual representation of global and localized faith populations.

The enterprise of compiling statistics on populations of religious adherents is not, however, without its problems. For more information, consult our discussion on the methodological problems of counting religious adherents.

The following chart was built using the data compiled and reported by ReligiousTolerance.org:

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