WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Hindus (Hindustani: [ˈɦɪndu] ( listen); /ˈhɪnduːz/) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism. Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent.

Detailed explanation-2: -If a person is born from a Hindu family, he/she is a Hindu. When one of the parents of a child is Hindu and he/she is brought up as a member of the Hindu family, he/she is a Hindu. If a child is born from a Hindu mother and a Muslim father and he/she is brought up as a Hindu then he/she can be considered as a Hindu.

Detailed explanation-3: -As a percentage, Nepal has the largest percentage of Hindus in the world followed by India and Mauritius. The Hindu population around the world as of 2020 is about 1.1 billion (making it the world’s third-largest religion after Christianity and Islam), of which nearly around 1 billion Hindus live in India.