A living map of the world's faiths. Each country is coloured by its majority religion; hover for the full proportional mix. Drag the slider β or hit play β to watch the religious landscape change from antiquity to today, with projections to 2100.
Please read: figures are approximate and illustrative. Modern data (1945β2020) draws on Pew Research and the World Religion Project; deep-history figures are best-effort scholarly estimates. The map uses modern borders at all eras as a visualization device β ancient peoples and empires, not today's nations, occupied that land. Composition counts resident populations (including expatriates), as Pew does.
Sources: Pew Research Center Β· World Religion Project (Maoz & Henderson, ARDA) Β· Our World in Data Β· historical scholarship. Borders: Natural Earth. Globe: globe.gl.
See how the world's faiths have spread and changed β from antiquity to a projection for 2100.
Figures are approximate & illustrative; modern borders are shown at every era as a visual device. See About (in the menu) for sources.
Every country is filled proportionally by faith β so you see each nation's whole religious mix at a glance, not just its majority.
This is a flat (equirectangular) projection, so areas near the poles look stretched (Greenland, Antarctica), and a couple of countries that cross the date line (Russia, Fiji) can smear sideways.
Population-weighted share of world adherents, antiquity β 2100. Click the chart to jump to that era.
Deep-history figures weight present-day populations and are illustrative; modern data draws on Pew Research & the World Religion Project. 2030β2100 are projections.