2010 CE
Estimate of Buddhist communities outside Asia
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Diaspora and living communities
Pew estimated about 3.9 million Buddhists in North America and 1.3 million in Europe in 2010. These are affiliation estimates for that year, not a current census or a measure of individual practice.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 2010
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
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Sources
- Pew Research Center — Buddhists, 2010 estimates (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2012-12-18
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2026-07-27
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.