According to the 2022 census, Sylhet division has the highest Hindu population of 13.5%, but the ratio was 14.05% in 2011. In Rangpur Division, the Hindu population has decreased from 13.21% in 2011 to 12.98% in 2022.
There are predominantly three religions in Chittagong. The main religion is Islam( 83.92%), but notable percentage of people adheres to Hinduism( 13.76%), and other religious groups include Buddhism( 2.01%), Christianity( 0.11%) and others(0.2%).
Hinduism is the second largest religious affiliation in Bangladesh, with around 13.1 million people identifying themselves as Hindus out of 165.16 million people and making up about 7.95 per cent of the total population as second largest minority according to the recent 2022 census.
As a percentage, Nepal has the largest percentage of Hindus in the world, followed by India and Mauritius. The Hindu population around the world as of 2020 is about 1.2 billion, making it the world's third-largest religion after Christianity and Islam, of which nearly 1.1 billion Hindus live in India.
An overwhelming majority of the Hindus (96 per cent of the total Hindu population in Pakistan) live in rural areas of Sindh. There are heavy concentrations of Hindus in Sanghar and Tharpakar district, which borders with India. There are also small pockets of Hindus in interior Baluchistan and Punjab.
বাংলাদেশের কোন জেলায় হিন্দু বেশি | bangladesh hindu majority district
Which district in Punjab is most Hindu?
Punjabi Hindus form a majority in five districts of Punjab, namely, Pathankot, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Fazilka and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar districts.
At the time of independence, the population of the city of Karachi was 51.1% Hindu, 42.3% Muslim, with the remaining 7% primarily Christians (both British and native), Sikhs, Jains, with a small number of Jews.
Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world due to the high birth rate of Muslims across the world compared to non-Muslims. In 1990, 1.1 billion people were Muslims, while in 2010, 1.6 billion people were Muslims.
Hinduism is the second-largest religion in Pakistan, with 2.17% of the population being Hindus, around 5.2 million people, according to the 2023 Pakistani census. However, the Pakistan Hindu Council claims 8-10 million Hindus, making up 4% of the population.
Hinduism originally came to Mauritius mainly through Indians who worked as indentured labourers on the island following the abolition of slavery. Today, Hinduism is a major religion in Mauritius, representing 48.54% of the total population of the country according to the 2011 census carried out by Statistics Mauritius.
Hasina was born on 28 September 1947 to the Bengali Muslim Sheikh family of Tungipara in East Bengal. Her father was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and her mother was Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib. Hasina grew up in Tungipara during her early childhood under the care of her mother and grandmother.
Islam is the official state religion of Afghanistan, with approximately 99.7% of the Afghan population being Muslim. Roughly 85% practice Sunni Islam, while around 10% are Shias.
According to the 2022 census, Sylhet division has the highest Hindu population of 13.5%, but the ratio was 14.05% in 2011. In Rangpur Division, the Hindu population has decreased from 13.21% in 2011 to 12.98% in 2022.
Khulna first declared itself as part of India in 1947, and the Indian flag was flown on 15 August. Syed Mohammad Abdul Halim (an official of the Bengali civil service) requested Khulna's inclusion in Pakistan, and the boundary commission declared that the city was part of East Bengal.
Chittagong is multi-religious. In 2011 Muslims were 86.90%, while Hindus and Buddhists were 11.31% and 1.59% respectively. Chittagong has the largest population of Hindus of any district in Bangladesh.
Pakistani Hindus are mainly concentrated in the eastern Sindh province with the Umerkot District having the highest percentage of Hindu residents in the country at 54.7%, while Tharparkar District has the most Hindus in absolute numbers at around 810,000.
It is estimated that the city of Lahore, Pakistan, has a Muslim majority with 94.7% and a Christian minority constitutes 5.1% of the population whilst Sikhs and Hindus constitute the remaining 0.2%.
Hinduism rejects this theory of God and believes in universal God who listens to prayers of all human beings. He does not discriminate by religion. So, God by any name will listen to your prayers. But better avoid the name of Allah as he himself discriminates between Muslims and non-Muslims.
77% of new converts to Islam are from Christianity, whereas 19% were from non-religion. Meanwhile, among American-born Muslims who have left Islam, about 55% now identify with no religion, 22% identify as Christian, and another 21% identify with other faiths.
Hinduism by country, worldmap (estimate 2010). There are 1.2 billion Hindus worldwide (15% of world's population), with about 95% of them being concentrated in India alone.
Various ethnic groups, including Muslim Kutchi people, Gujaratis, Konkanis, Hyderabadis, Marathis, Rajasthanis, and Punjabis, also fled India and settled in Karachi. There is also a sizable community of Malayali Muslims in Karachi (the Mappila), originally from Kerala in South India.
