THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD.

Bruce Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 41, 26 May 1910, Page 4

THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD.

In a religious census of the world which he has just published, Dr H. Zeller, Director of the Statistical Bureau in .Stuttgart, estimates that ofthe 1,544,610,000 people in the world, 534,940,000 are Christians, 175,290,000 are Mohammedans, 10,860,000 are Jews, and 823,420,000 hold other beliefs. Of these 300,000,000 are Confucians, 214,000,000 are Brahmana, and 121,000,000 Buddhists, with other bodies of lesser numbers. In other words, out of every thousand of the earth's inhabitants, 346 are Christiana, 114 are Mohammedans, 7 are Israelite, and 633 are of other religion*.