Bahá'í Population
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A Bahá'í Population is an adherent population of Bahai adherents of a Bahá'í faith.
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- the ~ 5 million worldwide in the 2010s.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Spiritual Assembly.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'í_statistics Retrieved:2017-10-23.
- The Bahá'í World News Service reports a Bahá'í membership of more than 5 million worldwide, in "virtually every country" and many territories. Other sources such as Encyclopædia Britannica or the World Christian Encyclopedia have listed Bahá'í membership as over 7 million. The Bahá'í Faith is recognized as the second-most geographically widespread religion after Christianity, and the only religion to have grown faster than the population of the world in all major areas over the last century. Membership data on a relatively new, worldwide religion are difficult to arrive at. The religion is almost entirely contained in a single, organised community, but the Bahá'í population is spread out and not in a majority anywhere. Populations are not assigned a Bahá'í religious adherence by birth, as is the case with other major religions such as Islam and Christianity. Few religious surveys include the Bahá'í Faith due to the high sample size required to reduce the margin of error, and those that have included the Bahá'í Faith are known to underestimate or overinflate many proportionally small groups.Additionally, Bahá'í membership data does not break out active participation from the total number of people who have expressed their belief.
The official claim of "more than five million Bahá’ís" in the world came originally in 1991and hasn't changed since. The official agencies of the religion have focused on publishing more concrete data, such as numbers of local and national spiritual assemblies, countries and territories represented, languages and tribes represented, and publishing trusts.
- The Bahá'í World News Service reports a Bahá'í membership of more than 5 million worldwide, in "virtually every country" and many territories. Other sources such as Encyclopædia Britannica or the World Christian Encyclopedia have listed Bahá'í membership as over 7 million. The Bahá'í Faith is recognized as the second-most geographically widespread religion after Christianity, and the only religion to have grown faster than the population of the world in all major areas over the last century. Membership data on a relatively new, worldwide religion are difficult to arrive at. The religion is almost entirely contained in a single, organised community, but the Bahá'í population is spread out and not in a majority anywhere. Populations are not assigned a Bahá'í religious adherence by birth, as is the case with other major religions such as Islam and Christianity. Few religious surveys include the Bahá'í Faith due to the high sample size required to reduce the margin of error, and those that have included the Bahá'í Faith are known to underestimate or overinflate many proportionally small groups.Additionally, Bahá'í membership data does not break out active participation from the total number of people who have expressed their belief.