How many people (roughly) are Buddhists?
Answer:by: Venerable Nicolas Thanissaro
According to the 1997 statistics there were 353,800,000 Buddhists in
the world and 151,816 in the UK. Please see the table diagram below for
the breakdown according to continent. You will see there that the
majority live in Asia, but on many of the other continents such as
Australia, Buddhism is one of the fastest growing religions at a time
when religion generally is in decline.
