The question paper · 05 · Origins & followers

Where is it followed today, and by roughly how many people?

13 WORLDVIEWS · THE SAME QUESTION · EVERY ANSWER CARRIES ITS SOURCES
AgnosticismANSWERED

There is no central count. Surveys place self-described agnostics in the hundreds of millions within the ~1.2 billion religiously unaffiliated — and agnostic elements are also held quietly by many believers and atheists.

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HumanismANSWERED

Organized membership is small — national societies of thousands to tens of thousands — but its ideas are held far more widely among the ~1.2 billion religiously unaffiliated. There is no reliable global count.

Humanists International; Pew Research Center

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LiberalismANSWERED

It has no membership rolls; it is measured in regimes. Several dozen countries are constitutional democracies with liberal rights protections — indexes such as Freedom House and V-Dem track the number, which has declined for over a decade.

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NationalismANSWERED

In form, it is effectively universal: the roughly 193 UN member states organize humanity as nations. The intensity of nationalist feeling varies widely and is measured by surveys, not membership.

United Nations membership; World Values Survey

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