# Most Popular Religion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-religion/54748>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [February 16, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-religion/54748 "2001-02-16T15:12:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-religion/54748/1 "2001-02-16T15:12:11Z")

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In regards to:  
[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mreligio.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mreligio.html)

Say Euty, would you happen to know of a place where rough statistics further back in time can be retrieved? I am curious now as to who has been winning the meme wars. Perhaps with some percentages of world population I could graph it out, or work up a stochastic matrix.

X% areligious  
X% percent various animistic  
X% various Christian (or greater breakdown even)  
X% Hindu, etc

with say, a generation or two between samplings.