We don't know the ecaxt value of believers in the world. Actually there is no a valid method to detect it. But we can use some method of estimation.
In a work, we detected number of believers as 500.000 by using the method of "number of videos".
This time, we'll use the method of "comparing searchings".
It is meaning full There is a relevant between a belief and its number of searching. Also Education and welfare status affect to number of searchings. So We can not say it is exactly right. But may give approximate approximation to reality.
First We'll use the number of searching of main beliefs:
According to wiki, the populations of some beliefs:
source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups(religion / in millions)
Christianity 2,200
Islam 1,703
Hinduism 1,100
Buddhism 488
Sikhism 23
Judaism 17
Flat earth ? (we are trying to calculate this)
Now we search on google by direct name of this religions:
Religions: search by term:
Jesus 890.000.000Bible 458.000.000
christ 424.000.000
Islam 455.000.000
muhammed 60.000.000
mohammad 160.000.000
محمد. 780.000.000 محمد.
quran 118.000.000
Hinduism 25.000.000
Hindu 168.000.000Buddism 56.800.000
Buddha 167.000.000Buda 55.100.000
Dharma 48.500.000
Sikhism 4.480.000Judaism 36.400.000 Flat earth 9.330.000As we see that some of religions Identified with someone. The searching of Jesus is more than Christ or bible. And name of the mohammad by arabic is more than islam, quran and others. So I'll get these names instead of a religion. And we'll calculate a rate by "Number of search / number of believer)
Term / Number of search / Number of Believer / Reverse ratio
1- jesus 890.000.000 / 2.200.000.000 (X 2,47)
2- Ar.Mohammad 780.000.000 / 1.703.000.000 (x 2,18)
3- Hindu 168.000.000 / 1.100.000.000 (x 6,54)
4- Buddha 167.000.000 / 488.000.000 (x 2,92)
5- Sikhism 4.480.000 / 23.000.000 (x 5,13)
6- Judaism 36.400.000 / 17.000.000 (x 0,46)
The possible reason of difference of judaism than others means other Abrahamic people interest with judaism. This is understandable.
We see that generally there is a relevant with number of believers and number of terms. It is usually changing by 2 to 7 times.
Even if the number searching of judaism misleading, we use it too by to be unbiased.
Now we'll estimate number of flat earth believers by using the ratios of the religions/terms:
1- (x2,47) 9.330.000 = 23 045 000
2- (x2,18) 9.330.000 = 20 339 000
3- (x6,54) 9.330.000 =
61 018 000 (max)
4- (x 2,92) 9.330.000 = 27 243 000
5- (x 5,13) 9.330.000 = 47 863 000
6- (x 0,46) 9.330.000 =
4 291 800 (min)
So; number of believers should be
between 4 millions to 61 millions.As an average value, we can accept the number of believers as
30 633 000 as of April 2017. I know this is amazing, but statistics do not lie.
STATISTICS SUMMERY CHARTData - Number of Believers (If there is two millions so the right one shows number of NASA believers)
April 2017 - 30m.
September 2017 - 43m.
October 2017 - 36m.
December 2017- 40m.
February 2018- 41m.
April 2018- 84m. (717m nasa)
May 2018- 75m. JUMPING POINT
September 2018- 763m.
October 2018- 633m. (521m. nasa)
November 2018- 865m.
December 2018- 935m.
February 2019- 652m.
March 2019- 803m.
May 2019- 744m. (658m. nasa)
July 2019 - 671m. (595m.)