Baháʼí Faith by country

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The Baháʼí Faith formed in the mid-19th century in Iran (West Asia), later gaining converts in India, East Africa, and the Western world. The Bahá'í Faith is established in more than 100,000 localities in virtually every country and territory around the world. Traveling promoters of the religion played a significant role in spreading the religion into most countries and territories during the second half of the 20th century,Template:Sfn mostly seeded out of North America by the planned migration of individuals.Template:Sfn The Baháʼí Faith was recognized as having a widespread international membership by the 1980s. Template:Sfn[1] Author Denis MacEoin asserted in 2000 that Baháʼí Faith was the second-most geographically widespread religion after Christianity.Template:Sfn

The Baháʼí World Centre estimated over a million Bahá'ís in 1965,Template:Sfn 5 million in 1991,Template:Sfn and about 8 million in 2020.Template:Sfn The official agencies of the religion have focused on publishing data such as numbers of local and national spiritual assemblies, countries and territories represented, languages and tribes represented, schools, and publishing trusts, not the total number of believers.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Analyzing Baháʼí data on localities and activity levels, Danish sociologist Margit Warburg suggested that by 2001, registered Baháʼís reliably numbered over 5 million.Template:Sfn Other independent estimates, such as Encyclopædia Britannica in 2010,Template:Sfn and the World Christian Encyclopedia in 2001,Template:Sfn listed Baháʼís and sympathizersTemplate:Efn as over 7 million. The Baháʼí Faith was described in 2013 as the fastest growing religion by percentage across the 20th century.Template:Sfn

The number of Baháʼí adherents is difficult to estimate accurately. Few national Baháʼí communities have the administrative capacity to enumerate their membersTemplate:Sfn and Baháʼí membership data does not break out active participation from the total number of people who have expressed their belief. Due to its small size, few censuses or religious surveys include the Baháʼí Faith as a separate categoryTemplate:EfnTemplate:Sfn and some government censuses count Baháʼís as Muslims or Hindus.Template:Sfn Country-level detail from the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE), on which many estimates rely, counts declared Baháʼís along with sympathizers, leading to much higher counts than those of self-identifying Baháʼís.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Difficulties in enumeration

The fact that the religion is diffuse and proportionally small is a major barrier to demographic research by outsiders. Even in the United States, where significant resources are dedicated to gathering data, the Baháʼí Faith is often omitted from religious surveys due to the high sample size required to reduce the margin of error.Template:Sfn In the Middle East, especially Iran, Baháʼís face persecution, and the lack of Baháʼí administration makes it difficult to maintain a count.

Baháʼí authors Peter Smith and Moojan Momen, commenting on the difficulties of counting Baháʼís, wrote the following:

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With any religious movement there are invariable problems of quantification unless the movement's own enumeration techniques are exceptionally efficient, or government censuses incorporate questions on religion. Even here there are often considerable problems of definition. Are gradations of commitment to be taken into consideration so as to differentiate between active and nominal members? Are the children of members to be included as well as adults? Is allowance to be made for the pattern of multi-religious adherence which is common in many parts of the world? These are, of course, problems that affect the estimation of numbers for any religion and are not confined to Bahá'í statistics.

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Definition of membership

Throughout the early development of the Baháʼí Faith in Iran and the West, Baháʼís often retained some of the religious identity that they converted from, many remaining members of churches and mosques. Later, Shoghi Effendi made it clear that the Baháʼí Faith was its own tradition with laws and institutions, and that Baháʼís could not remain members of other religions. The practice of maintaining membership rolls of believers began in the 1920s.Template:Sfn

In the 1930s the Baháʼís of the United States and Canada began requiring new adherents to sign a declaration of faith, stating their belief in Baháʼu'lláh, the Báb, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, and affirming that there are laws and institutions to obey. The original purpose of signing a declaration card was to allow followers to apply for lawful exemption from active military service.Template:Sfn The signature of a card later became optional in Canada, but in the US is still used for records and administrative requirements.Template:Sfn

All local and national Spiritual Assemblies are expected to keep membership records that include declarations of faith and withdrawals, which are used for annual assembly elections.Template:Sfn The Baháʼí system of membership thus has a system of contracting into the religion and some maintenance of the membership list is required for community functioning. Being removed from membership requires an opposite declaration of disbelief.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[2]

Children

A peculiar difficulty arises in counting Baháʼís because a tenet of the faith is that parents cannot choose the religion of their children and that 15 is the age of spiritual maturity when an individual can make the choice.Template:Sfn Early membership rolls excluded children of Baháʼís and didn't even count them separately.Template:Sfn In 1979 the Universal House of Justice requested that children be included separately for statistical purposes, matching the methodology of most censuses and surveys. Before that, membership rolls may have only indicated ages 21 or older (the age required for voting).Template:Sfn

The change toward including children in statistics caused an increase in the total number of reported Baháʼís in the late 1980s, but has been consistent since.Template:Sfn

Active vs inactive

Another difficulty arises from defining membership based on participation. The number of active participants in any religious movement will always be smaller than the number who profess belief. The prevailing norm in the Western world is that members of minority religious groups must be actively participating to be considered a member, and members of majority religious groups have a large number of passive adherents.Template:Sfn Margit Warburg wrote, Template:Quote

Warburg also noted: "Baháʼís do not lose membership status just by being inactive."Template:Sfn

In the 1980s the Baháʼís of the United States started including "address unknown" in their membership statistics; members designated as such may profess belief but are no longer participating in community life.Template:Sfn For example, in its 2020 Annual Report the US National Spiritual Assembly had 177,647 registered Baháʼís of all ages, only 77,290 of which had good addresses, and 57,341 total participants in core activities, with 37% of attendees from outside of the Baháʼí population.Template:Sfn The higher American number has been challenged because it includes some who no longer believe, but the lower number with good addresses does not include inactive Baháʼís who continue their belief.Template:Sfn As author William Garlington noted, Template:Quote

Using activity data, Warburg estimated a percentage of activity in Baháʼí communities around the world and concluded that in 2001 there were reliably 5.1 million registered Baháʼís in the world and 900,000 active Baháʼís, or 18% of the total. The estimates on activity were broken out by continent: Europe 82% active, USA and Canada 71%, Australia and New Zealand 91%, Africa 22%, India 5%, Other Asia 26%, Latin America 13%, and Oceania 43%.Template:Sfn On the question of whether the Baháʼí numbers are intentionally inflated, Warburg feels that the "numbers are not rooted in any sinister manipulation of data".Template:Sfn

Number of Baháʼís worldwide

Baháʼí sources

  • In 2020, the Secretariat of the Universal House of Justice wrote, "on the basis of information received from Baháʼí communities across the world, and on reputable external sources", the current estimate for the number of Baháʼís worldwide is "about eight million", and Baháʼís reside in "well over 100,000 localities".Template:Sfn
  • A 1997 statement by the NSA of South Africa wrote: "…the Baháʼí Faith enjoys a world-wide following in excess of six million people."Template:Sfn
  • As early as 1991 official estimates were of "more than five million Baháʼís",Template:Sfn which was still in use as of 2020.Template:Sfn
  • In 1989, the journal Religion published an article by Baháʼí authors Moojan Momen and Peter Smith. They observed that in the 1950s there were "probably in the region of 200,000 Baháʼís world-wide. The vast majority of these (over 90%) lived in Iran. There were probably fewer than 10,000 Baháʼís in the West and no more than 3,000 Baháʼís in the Third World, mostly India".Template:Sfn By the end of the 1960s, they wrote, "we 'guestimate' that there may now have been about one million Baháʼís." And by 1988 they estimated about 4.5 million.Template:Sfn
  • A 1987 report, published in the United States Baháʼí News reported 3.62 million Baháʼís in 1979 and 4.74 million Baháʼís in 1986, a growth of 31% over the period, or 4.4% per year on average.Template:Sfn
  • The document The Promise of World Peace, produced by the Universal House of Justice in 1985, stated that the Bahá’í community has "some three to four million people".Template:Sfn
  • Baháʼí author Moojan Momen wrote in 2008, "In the early 1950s, there were probably some 200,000 Baháʼís in the world. This has increased to about a million by the late 1960s, about four and a half million by the late 1980s, and over five million by 2000s."Template:Sfn
  • The first known survey of the religion comes from an unpublished work in 1919–1920 gathered by John Esslemont and had been intended to be part of his well-known Baháʼu'lláh and the New Era.Template:Sfn In it, consulting various individuals, he summarizes the religion's presence in Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Turkestan, and the United States. It did not arrive at a total but did have some regional statistics based on some individual reports.
  • In 1867, 53 Baháʼís from Baghdad sent an appeal to the American Consul in Beirut for assistance in freeing Bahá'u'lláh from Ottoman captivity. According to missionary Henry Harris Jessup, "The petitioners claim that they number 40,000."Template:Sfn

Other sources

2010s and newer

  • In 2020, the World Religion Database has estimated a worldwide Baháʼí population of 8,531,050.[3]
  • In 2017, The Economist reported that there were more than 7 million Baháʼís in the world.Template:Sfn
  • In 2016, the book 12 Major World Religions wrote, "Today it numbers at least 5 million adherents and possibly more."Template:Sfn
  • In 2015, the Yearbook of International Religious Demography noted just over 7.8 million Baháʼís in the world, having grown at an overall rate of 2.79% across the century 1910 to 2010.Template:Sfn The 10 countries with the largest Baháʼí populations were: India, United States, Kenya, Vietnam, DR Congo, Philippines, Zambia, South Africa, Iran and Bolivia, ranging from 232,000 to just over 2,000,000 in India.Template:Sfn
  • In 2013, the book The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography wrote, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahaʼi was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN region."Template:Sfn
  • In 2011, Bei Dawei said in an academic conference presentation that the Baháʼí Faith had "several hundred thousand" adherents. He noted that "estimates of five, six, or seven million are more usually encountered" but said that these estimates are projections based on self-reporting by Baháʼís and that the national figures they are based on "tend to exceed apparent Bahá'í activity by whole orders of magnitude."[4]
  • In 2010, The World Religion Database stated that there were 7.3 million Baháʼís in the world.Template:Sfn The Association of Religion Data Archives cited this estimate.Template:Sfn Encyclopædia Britannica also estimated a total of 7.3 million Baháʼís residing in 221 countries.Template:Sfn Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices estimated 7.4 million Baháʼís,Template:Sfn citing UN median variant figures from World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision.

2000s

  • In 2009, Paula Hartz wrote in World Religions: Baha'i Faith: "Today the Baha’i Faith has some 5 million followers. It is one of the world’s fastest-growing religions. It is also probably the most diverse."Template:Sfn
  • In 2007, The World Factbook states that Baháʼís make up 0.12% of the world, corresponding to 7.9 million people.Template:Sfn
  • In 2006, Margit Warburg's academic book on the Baháʼí Faith claimed, "a conservative estimate would be that in 2001 there were about 5.1 million registered Baháʼís in the world."Template:Sfn
  • In 2005, the Association of Religion Data Archives estimate is of 7.6 million,Template:Sfn which is also echoed elsewhere.Template:Sfn The Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, records that: "In the early twenty-first century the Baháʼís number close to six million in more than two hundred countries. The number of adherents rose significantly in the late twentieth century from a little more than one million at the end of the 1960s."Template:Sfn
  • In 2004, the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa reported that "Baháʼís worldwide [are] estimated in 2001 at 5 million."Template:Sfn
  • In 2003, World Book Encyclopedia reported that "there are about 5,500,000 Baháʼís worldwide."Template:Sfn
  • In 2001, World Christian Encyclopedia (2nd edition, 2001) estimated 7.1 million adherents of the Baháʼí Faith in the year 2000 representing 0.1% of the world population. The same source projected 12 million in 2025 and 18 million in 2050, assuming then-current trends were to continue.Template:Sfn They also noted, "In government censuses Baháʼís are usually counted as Muslims or Hindus and not shown separately."Template:Sfn
  • In 2000, Encyclopædia Britannica estimated a total of 7.1 million Baháʼís residing in 218 countries.Template:Sfn Denis MacEoin wrote in the Handbook of Living Religions that:

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1950 to 1999

  • In 1998, the Academic American Encyclopedia said that the Baháʼís "are estimated to number about 2 million."Template:Sfn
  • In 1997, Dictionary of World Religions said that there are five million Baháʼís" in the world.Template:Sfn Religions of the World published: "today there are about 5 million" Baháʼís.Template:Sfn
  • In 1995, the HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion stated: "In 1985, it was estimated that there were between 1.5 to 2 million Baha'is, with the greatest areas of recent growth in Africa, India, and Vietnam."Template:Sfn
  • In 1993, the Columbia Encyclopedia published: "There are about 5 million Baháʼís in the world."Template:Sfn
  • In 1982, the World Christian Encyclopedia (1st edition, 1982) wrote of Baháʼí adherents in the world: “(1970) 2,659,400, (1980) 3,822,600 in 194 countries, (1985) 4,442,600.”Template:Sfn
  • Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices (2010) estimated 2.7 million Baháʼís in 1970, citing UN median variant figures from World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision.Template:Sfn
  • Paul Oliver wrote in World Faiths (2001) that there were "approximately five million Baháʼís" in 1963.Template:Sfn
  • Paula Hartz wrote in World Religions: Baha'i Faith (2009) that by the end of Shoghi Effendi's life in 1957, "the Baha'i Faith had reached more than 400,000 [adherents]."Template:Sfn

1900 to 1950

During ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's tour of North America, several newspapers made claims of how large the religion was, with figures in the range of millions of people:

  • In 1912, a reporter in Salt Lake City claimed ʻAbdu'l-Bahá said the religion had "10,000,000 followers in the world."Template:Sfn
  • On June 16, 1912, a news report introduced him as the "Persian religious leader and spiritual and temporal head of the 14,000,000 of Baháʼís scattered throughout the world."Template:Sfn
  • On April 24, 1912, a newspaper article said "Baháʼísm now has 15,000,000 adherents scattered throughout the world, several hundred thousand of whom are in the United States and Canada."Template:Sfn
  • On April 12, 1912, a newspaper introduced him as "head of one of the newest and most thriving religions in the world, numbering 20,000,000 souls among his followers, of whom several hundred souls are in New York."Template:Sfn
  • On September 9, 1911, a news report about ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's visit to London claimed "at a moderate estimate, three million followers."Template:Sfn

Adherents by country

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Although the Baháʼí News Service has reported on the total number of Baháʼís in the world, the data is not broken out by country.Template:Sfn

The World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE), and its successor The World Christian Database (WCD), is an authority on membership data for religions in the world, and its decades-long study by David Barrett and co-workers is a basis for many other estimates of Baháʼís in the world, such as ARDA. The data were released in editions of 1982, 2001, and 2018, and includes a break down by country. The WCE data has consistently reported higher numbers of Baháʼís than the reports of Baháʼí institutions.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Danish researcher Margit Warburg studied Baháʼí membership data and feels that the WCE data is overstated for Baháʼís.Template:Sfn For instance, WCE reports an estimated 1,600 Baháʼís in Denmark in 1995 and 682,000 Baháʼís in the USA. The number of registered Baháʼís at the same time were 240 and 130,000, respectively.Template:Sfn Peter Smith found that the WCE data is meant to include "members plus those who regularly attend Baháʼí events, that is including a wider circle of sympathizers as well as declared Baháʼís".Template:Sfn

The Association for Religious Data Archives (ARDA) is "a collection of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by the foremost scholars and research centers in the world." It gathers data from, "the US Census Bureau's International Data Base, the US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report, the United Nations Human Development Reports, and others"Template:Sfn including World Christian Database.[7]

Baháʼí Faith by country
Country or territory Baháʼí sources WCE (1980)Template:Sfn WCE (2000)Template:Sfn ARDA (2010)Template:SfnTemplate:Efn UNSDTemplate:Sfn Other sources
Template:Flagu (details) 600 23,075 16,541 400 (2007)[8]
Template:Flagu (details) 14,024Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 5,711 7,126
Template:Flagu (details) 1,000 2,806 3,309
Template:Flagu (details) 925 (2014)[9]Template:Efn 280 990
Template:Flagu (details) 110
Template:Flagu (details) 600 1,488 2,061
Template:Flagu (details) 50 86
Template:Flagu (details) 320 629 51 (2009)
Template:Flagu (details) 6,900 10,212 13,972
Template:Flagu (details) 1,331 1,190
Template:Flagu (details) 148
Template:Flagu (details) 17,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 11,300 33,536 19,365 14,937 (2023) 8,947 (1996)Template:Sfn
11,036 (2001)Template:Sfn
12,331 (2006)Template:Sfn
13,988 (2016)Template:Sfn
Template:Flagu (details) 2,120 3,780 1,948 760 (2001)
Template:Flagu (details) 1,432 1,685
Template:Flagu (details) 430 1,241 1,375 65 (2013)
Template:Flagu (details) 500 1,379 2,832
Template:Flagu (details) 4,200 8,341 9,603
Template:Flagu (details) 400 (2010)Template:Sfn 1,440 3,522 3,337 98 (2016) 178 (2010)Template:Sfn
Template:Flagu (details) 106 100
Template:Flagu (details) 1,900 2,358 2,617
Template:Flagu (details) 4,100 6,941 7,742 216 (2014) 202 (2010)Template:Sfn
Template:Flagu (details) 5,400 13,074 11,637
Template:Flagu (details) 120 325 124 (2011)
Template:Flagu (details) 300 647 74
Template:Flagu (details) 100,000 (1988)Template:Sfn 160,000 269,246 215,359
Template:Flagu (details) 0 0
Template:Flagu (details) 4,600 12,417 16,464 2,074 (2015) 700 (2001)[10]
Template:Flagu (details) 18,000 36,745 42,108
Template:Flagu (details) 90 192 10 (2016)
Template:Flagu (details) 710 981 199
Template:Flagu (details) 657 592
Template:Flagu (details) 600Template:Efn 2,767 2,860
Template:Flagu (details) 2,200 5,414 6,779
Template:Flagu (details) 10,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 35,000 12,862 16,659
Template:Flagu (details) 40,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 49,600 64,286 49,885
Template:Flagu (details) 30,000Template:Sfn 40,000 31,396 46,826 18,975 (2022)
Template:Flagu (details) 200 655 759
Template:Flagu (details) 80 336
Template:Flagu (details) 6,500 7,833 10,913
Template:Flagu (details) 7,000 80,683 94,499
Template:Flagu (details) 6,000 (2002)Template:Sfn 9,600 17,943 26,382
Template:Flagu (details) 6,525 6,012
Template:Flagu (details) 30,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 38,000 64,758 70,504
Template:Flagu (details) 390 521 647
Template:Flagu (details) 6,200 12,927 25,879
Template:Flagu (details) 70,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 180,000 224,596 282,916
Template:Flagu (details) 160 161
Template:Flagu (details) 4,000[11] 8,400 11,571 13,457 3,000[12]
Template:Flagu (details) 150 (2006)Template:Sfn 0 0
Template:Flagu (details) 620 1,139 1,145
Template:Flagu (details) 400 828 1,170
Template:Flagu (details) 950 966
Template:Flagu (details) 240 (1995)Template:Sfn
375 (2013)Template:Sfn 		1,400 1,785 1,264 1,600 (1995)Template:Sfn
Template:Flagu (details) 140 552 769
Template:Flagu (details) 70 1,225
Template:Flagu (details) 5,500 5,904 6,899
Template:Flagu (details) 300 1,190
Template:Flagu (details) 27,000 15,599 17,820
Template:Flagu (details) 3,000 (1960)Template:Sfn
500 (1987)Template:Sfn
500 (2001)Template:Sfn
1,000–2,000 (2019)Template:Sfn 		1,500 5,760 6,946 2,000Template:Sfn
Template:Flagu (details) 12,000 (1990)Template:Sfn 15,000 27,712 27,345
Template:Flagu (details) 900 2,317 3,589
Template:Flagu (details) 1,198 1,426
Template:Flagu (details) 459 496
Template:Flagu (details) 11,000 4,516
Template:Flagu (details) 11,000 21,592 22,764
Template:Flagu (details) 50 67 12 (2009)
Template:Flagu (details) 50 124
Template:Flagu (details) 1,800 5,674 2,338
Template:Flagu (details) 775 (2013)Template:Sfn 2,500 1,676 1,674 653 (2021)
Template:Flagu (details) 5,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 3,700 4,136 4,453
Template:Flagu (details) 500 725
Template:Flagu (details) 360 695
Template:Flagu (details) 300 405 605
Template:Flagu (details) 5,100 10,790 14,184
Template:Flagu (details) 1,725 1,639
Template:Flagu (details) 6,000 (2019)Template:Efn 11,500Template:Efn 12,391 12,356 5,600 (2005)[13]
Template:Flagu (details) 10,000 12,146 14,106
Template:Flagu (details) 300 611 189
Template:Flagu (details) 280 355
Template:Flagu (details) 160 145
Template:Flagu (details) 640 1,595
Template:Flagu (details) 800 1,863
Template:Flagu (details) 7,000 20,073 19,898
Template:Flagu (details) 140 288 150
Template:Flagu (details) 90 333 266
Template:Flagu (details) 110 (1969)
22,000 (1989)Template:Sfn 		2,700 14,584 11,787 500 (2002)Template:Sfn
800 (2019)Template:Sfn
Template:Flagu (details) 11,700 17,055 22,614
Template:Flagu (details) 11,600 32,635 37,591
Template:Flagu (details) 600 1,120
Template:Flagu (details) 100 246 290
Template:Flagu (details) 360 (2013)Template:Sfn 400 801 599
Template:Flagu (details)
2,000,000 (2020)Template:Sfn 		1,050,000Template:Efn 1,716,148 1,897,651 5,574 (1991)Template:Sfn
1,000,000 (1996)Template:Sfn
400,000 (1999)Template:Sfn
11,324 (2001)Template:Sfn
100,000 (2002)Template:Sfn
4,572 (2011)Template:Sfn
Template:Flagu (details) 15,000 26,537 22,815
Template:Flagu (details) 300,000 (1988)Template:Sfn
110,000 (2010)[14]
300,000 (2020)Template:Sfn 		340,000 463,151 251,127 300,000–350,000 (1979)Template:Sfn
150,000–300,000[15]
300,000 (2019)Template:Sfn
Template:Flagu (details) 2,000Template:Sfn 700 2,607 3,801
Template:Flagu (details) 900 1,274 1,550 520 (2012)
Template:Flagu (details) 650[16] 600 13,734 11,705
Template:Flagu (details) 4,600 5,681 5,108
Template:Flagu (details) 6,000 22,289 30,321
Template:Flagu (details) 4,000[17] 5,000 7,456 5,157 269 (2013)
Template:Flagu (details) 12,500 15,579 15,594
Template:Flagu (details) 1,000 17,221 15,655
Template:Flagu (details) 6,967
Template:Flagu (details) 25,000–40,000[18] 180,000 308,292 422,782
Template:Flagu (details) 3,500 4,321 2,322 (2013)
Template:Flagu (details) 0 0 0
Template:Flagu (details) 200[19] 18,000 32,096 33,084
Template:Flagu (details) 2,000 5,172 8,992
Template:Flagu (details) 0 1,426
Template:Flagu (details) 150 1,229 13,450 2,122 (2019)
Template:Flagu (details) 0 0
Template:Flagu (details) 1,400 3,272 3,889
Template:Flagu (details) 10,700 19,062 19,195
Template:Flagu (details) 5,000 8,955 11,231
Template:Flagu (details) 300 560 636
Template:Flagu (details) 60 107
Template:Flagu (details) 0 267 29 (2014)
Template:Flagu (details) 1,400 1,546 1,597
Template:Flagu (details) 130
Template:Flagu (details) 5,600 15,270 18,347
Template:Flagu (details) 15,000 (2003)[20] 11,600 24,501 34,323
Template:Flagu (details) 30,000 (1986)Template:Sfn 62,000 97.78 67,549
Template:Flagu (details) 25 60 120
Template:Flagu (details) 640 1,030 1,244
Template:Flagu (details) 140 255 274
Template:Flagu (details) 1,023
Template:Flagu (details) 1,600 2,031
Template:Flagu (details) 140 267 346
Template:Flagu (details) 7,500Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 9,500 21,848 23,742 645 (2012)
Template:Flagu (details) 23,000 33,903 38,902
Template:Flagu (details) 8,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 1,909
Template:Flagu (details) 0 526
Template:Flagu (details) 30 57
Template:Flagu (details) 8,000–9,000 (2020)Template:Sfn 0 53 55
Template:Flagu (details) 0
Template:Flagu (details) 200
Template:Flagu (details) 350–400Template:Sfn 3,200 28,719 32,598
Template:Flagu (details) 1,400 3,405 2,877
Template:Flagu (details) 15,000 49,044 78,915
Template:Flagu (details) 500 8,864 10,995
Template:Flagu (details) 130 1,106
Template:Flagu (details) 4,000 6,163 4,366 537 (2023) 1,211 (2011)[21]
Template:Flagu (details) 11 (1948)
110 (1962)
365 (1973)
525 (1979)Template:Sfn 		3,100 5,506 6,672
Template:Flagu (details) 570 932
Template:Flagu (details) 3,200 3,878 7,518 2,634 (2013) 2,925 (2018)[22]
Template:Flagu (details) 4,000 9,616 10,918
Template:Flagu (details) 1,100 2,978 5,528
Template:Flagu (details) 21,000 27,031 38,190
Template:Flagu (details) 0 0
Template:Flagu (details) 1,200 (2013)Template:Sfn 1,400 2,179 2,737 1,015 (2007)[23]
Template:Flagu (details) 420 9,123 9,987
Template:Flagu (details) 30,000 (2001)[24] 25,000 78,658 87,259 33,734 (2012)Template:Sfn
31,543 (2018)[25]
2,000–3,000 (2013)[26]
Template:Flagu (details) 150 96 (2005)
Template:Flagu (details) 20,000 35,318 41,170
Template:Flagu (details) 40,000 (2006)[27] 17,900 34,939 59,898
Template:Flagu (details) 2,900 9,011 10,624
Template:Flagu (details) 20,000 36,463 41,316
Template:Flagu (details) 64,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 115,000 229,522 275,069
Template:Flagu (details) 504 766
Template:Flagu (details) 6,000Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 2,000 1,845 2,086
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Template:Flagu (details) 420 985 2,717
Template:Flagu (details) 1,800 5,927
Template:Flagu (details) 542 (1990)Template:Sfn 100 1,843 1,895
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Template:Flagu (details) 4,000[28] 7,500 14,211 19,592
Template:Flagu (details) 925 (2014)[29]Template:Efn 3,300 4,178 817 (2018)
Template:Flagu (details) 90 3,011 1,645Template:Efn
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Template:Flagu (details) 3,200 16,804 23,883
Template:Flagu (details) 1,268
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Template:Flagu (details) 1,150 11,385 13,765
Template:Flagu (details) 900 5,482 7,963
Template:Flagu (details) 200Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 667 686 1,065 (2013)
Template:Flagu (details) 297 396
Template:Flagu (details) 800 1,903
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Template:Flagu (details) 23,000 255,775 238,532 2,264 (2000)
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Template:Flagu (details) 9,700 15,489 15,502
Template:Flagu (details) 700 1,828 2,706
Template:Flagu (details) 5,000 6,424 3,591
Template:Flagu (details) 1,080 (2013)Template:Sfn 1,900 5,048 6,814
Template:Flagu (details) 3,500 3,728 3,878
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Template:Flagu (details) 5,000 12,555 16,252
Template:Flagu (details) 743 3,092 1,000 (2018)[30]
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Template:Flagu (details) 10,000 144,243 65,096
Template:Flagu (details) 2,800 25,395 30,423
Template:Flagu (details) 1,700 6,582 730 (2023)
Template:Flagu (details) 8,000 15,627 15,973
Template:Flagu (details) 520 1,917 2,096 150 (2001)[31]
Template:Flagu (details) 5,100 19,618 21,259
Template:Flagu (details) 964 1,090
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Template:Flagu (details) 105,000[32] 330,600 66,546 95,098 29,601 (2014)[33]
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7,000 (2020)[34] 		15,600Template:Efn 30,628 47,554 5,021 (2011)[35]
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130,000 (1995)Template:Sfn
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Template:Flagu (details) 1,218 (1965)Template:Sfn
20,000 (2000)Template:Sfn 		35,000 141,072 169,811
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20,000 (1985)Template:Sfn 		14,500 37,077 39,893 35,000 (1995)[38]

Adherents by continent

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Continent 1900 1970 1975 1980
Africa 225 695,094 847,795 1,024,440
East Asia 0 27,307 31,620 36,230
Europe 0 53,810 58,580 63,270
Latin America 0 298,350 376,070 462,100
Northern America 2,800 162,350 206,410 250,470
Oceania 0 29,355 38,640 48,115
South Asia 5,800 1,389,160 1,639,260 1,933,405
USSR 200 4,000 4,300 4,600
WorldTemplate:Sfn 9,025 2,659,426 3,202,675 3,822,630

The following data comes from World Christian Encyclopedia (2st ed., 2001).Template:Sfn

Continent 1900 1970 1990 1995 2000
Africa 225 698,094 1,383,320 1,546,330 1,732,816
Asia 5,900 1,411,530 2,811,995 3,034,140 3,475,167
Europe 210 56,810 106,635 120,275 129,706
Latin America 0 299,350 357,845 763,205 872,757
Northern America 2,800 162,350 628,675 712,335 785,587
Oceania 400 29,215 83,217 97,595 110,387
WorldTemplate:Sfn 9,535 2,657,349 5,671,687 6,273,880 7,106,420

In "The Baha'i Faith 1957–1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments" (Religion: 1989), Baháʼí authors Momen and Smith provide the following estimates of the Baháʼís in the world over 3 decades, broken out by cultural areas. They derived numbers from, "calculation of approximate numbers from the number of Bahá'í organizations; extrapolating back from the official figures for the number of individual Bahá'ís provided more recently; estimates provided by informed Bahá'ís; and when the first draft of this paper was completed, a copy was sent to the Department of Statistics in Haifa and the present table incorporates some of the statistical information given in the reply to this, dated 8 July 1988."Template:Sfn

Cultural area 1954 1968 1988
Middle East and North Africa 200,000 250,000 300,000
North America, Europe & Anglo-Pacific 10,000 30,000 200,000
South Asia 1,000 300,000 1,900,000
South-east Asia 2,000 200,000 300,000
East Asia 10,000 20,000
Latin America & the Caribbean 100,000 700,000
Africa (sub-Saharan) 200,000 1,000,000
Oceania (excluding Anglo-Pacific) 5,000 70,000
World 213,000 1,095,000 4,490,000

Other statistics from Baháʼí sources

1928Template:Sfn 1949Template:Sfn 1968Template:Sfn 1986Template:Sfn 2001 2006Template:Sfn
National Spiritual Assemblies 7 11 81 165 182 179
Local Spiritual Assemblies 102 595 6,840 18,232 11,740Template:Sfn
Countries where the Baháʼí Faith is established:
independent countries		 36 92 187 191
Localities where Baháʼís reside 573 2315 31,572 >116,000 127,381Template:Sfn
Indigenous tribes, races,
and ethnic groups		 1,179 >2,100 2,112
Languages into which Baháʼí literature is translated 417 800
Baháʼí Publishing Trusts 9 26 33Template:Sfn
Year 1923 1936 1953 1963 1973 1979 1988 2008
National Spiritual Assemblies[39][40][41] 3 10 12 56 113 125 148 184

See also

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  40. ↑ Baha'i World Statistics 2001 by Baha'i World Center Department of Statistics, 2001–08
  41. ↑ The Life of Shoghi Effendi by Helen Danesh, John Danesh and Amelia Danesh, Studying the Writings of Shoghi Effendi, edited by M. Bergsmo (Oxford: George Ronald, 1991)

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