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Largest Religion by Country with Exceptions

Name the religion with the most followers in every country besides Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Irreligion, Islam, and Judaism, or any of their denominations.
Just to help, here is a nonconclusive list of major denominations that I counted under one of the religions mentioned above: Buddhism- Esoteric, Mahayana, Theravada, Zen; Christianity- Catholocism, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, Mormonism, Protestantism; Hinduism- Shaivism, Shaktism, Smartism, Vaishnavism; Islam- Shi'a, Sunni, Usuli, Wahhabi; and Judaism- Conservative, Orthodox, Reform.
Some countries have so few people who do not belong to the above religious groups that reliable sources don't exist for exact numbers. These countries are greyed out. Additionally, there are some cases where folk religion is not included because census data just clumps it all together, and I don't think it's fair to have "Angolan Folk Religions" as an answer for this quiz. If I can only find vague references to "folk religion" or "indigenous beliefs," then I use my best knowledge and research to infer what I can. In these cases, I put the religions under a generic non nation-specific term. There is one major exception.
Source: Wikipedia pages for each country's demographics, as well as The CIA World Factbook and The Association of Religion Data Archives.
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Animism
Anitism
Åsatru
Baháʼí
Bon
Chinese Folk Religion
Answer
Confucianism
Dievturība
Dogon
Druze
Heathenry
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Hellenic
Ibeorgun
Kiratism
Maausk
Modekngei
Answer
Paganism
Rastafari
Rodnovery
Romuva
Sande/Poro
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Santeria
Satsana Phi
Serer
Shinism
Shinto
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Sikhism
Spiritism
Swazi
Taoism
Tengrism
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Vodun
Waaqeffanna
Winti
Yazidism
Zoroastrianism
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Level 71
May 18, 2021
Good quiz! Definitely super difficult--most of these are incredibly obscure.

One thing that's a bit weird though is Confucianism. Based on what I know about it, it's more a philosophy than a religion. Is there a reason you decided to include it as a religion on this quiz?

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Level 70
May 19, 2021
The ARDA (listed in the sources) counted Confucianism as a religion. At some point the line between philosophy and religion gets very blurry, so I just stuck to what my sources gave me.
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2021
Great quiz! I got 14.
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Level 70
Sep 6, 2021
To be ironic, I must say: oh my god. What a CRAZY quiz is this one. I got 15, randomly guessing Nordic and Hellenic religions (thought it won't go in) and forgot Sikhism.

It's only curious that Brazil's largest is Spiritism (kinda surprising to learn it is only that big here!) and not an afro-brazilian religion (Candomblé or Umbanda). I really believe there are more people following those last two religions -- but we know most of them call themselves Christians (there's a lot of syncretism) to avoid racism. Hope to see things changing and people being free to freely express their beliefs!

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Level 70
Sep 7, 2021
Yeah, a major difficulty in making this quiz is that in a lot of countries there are so few people who don't belong to one of the big ones (or at least those who say they don't) that basic survey issues like sample size and location could really effect the outcome. That's why a lot of South American and Middle Eastern countries are grayed out; there were so few people who didn't answer Christian or Muslim. It's also why Baha'i is such a common answer; they keep close track of their followers.

I very nearly had to make the decision on whether or not to put "jedi" on this quiz thanks to a movement in Australia some time ago.

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Level 75
Sep 10, 2021
I actually typed Jedism