In a news article published in December 2022, there was an estimated 30,000–35,000 Sikhs in Pakistan according to Gurpal Singh and Sikhs will be included as a separate category and enumerated on the upcoming 2023 Census of Pakistan.
Sikhism in Afghanistan in the contemporary era is limited to small populations, primarily in major cities, with the largest numbers of Afghan Sikhs living in Jalalabad, Ghazni, Kabul, and to a lesser extent in Kandahar and Khost.
Sikhs number about 26-30 million worldwide, of whom 24–28 million live in India, which thus represents around 90 percent of the total Sikh population.
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As of 2020, the number of Sikhs in Russia is estimated to be between 300 and 1,000, and a significant portion of this population is made up of Afghan refugees.
Presently there are about nearly 100 Sikh families in mainland China. They are running a private Gurdwara in house of some Sikh follower.
Sikhs have been living in Iran from at least 100 years now. The Gurdwara Sahib in Zahedan was built in 1921 and at Tehran in 1941. There are almost 100 Sikh families in Tehran and 15-20 families live in Zahedan.
English Sikhs number over 520,000 people and account for 0.92% of England's population in 2021, forming the country's fourth-largest religious group. In 2006 there were 352 gurdwaras in England.
American Sikhs number around 200,000 people (estimates vary from 78,000 to 1,000,000) and account for 0.1% of the United States population as of 2021, forming the country's sixth-largest religious group.
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The Sikh population in the country was 19,191 in 2013. It swelled to 40,908 in 2018. Not just the Sikhs but other religions, including Hindus and Muslims, have also witnessed a rise in their numbers in the country that has a total population of 48 lakh.
Demographics. When ordered state-wise, the largest population of Punjabis is in Victoria (56,171 individuals), followed by New South Wales (33,435), Queensland (17,991), Western Australia (12,223), South Australia (9,306), the Australian Capital Territory (2,215), the Northern Territory (670) and Tasmania (489).
The Sikh Community: There are about 12 000 Sikhs in Hong Kong.
Many local Sikh families, who first settled in Hong Kong in the 19th century, have maintained continuous residence, in unbroken succession, down to the present day.
German Sikhs are a growing religious minority in Germany. The majority of German Sikhs have their roots from the Punjab, India with the remaining coming from the Afghan Sikh community or through conversion. The number of Sikhs is estimated to be between 25,000.
According to the latest available data, there are approximately 20,000 Sikhs in Greece.
Sikhism in Sweden (Swedish: Sikhismen i Sverige) is a very small religious minority, there are approximately 4,000 adherents, most of which are settled in Stockholm and Gothenburg, each of which has two gurdwaras.
The initiation (baptism) ceremony and other traditions of the religion were formalized by 1699 CE. Size of Sikhism: Sikhism is the fifth largest world religion. Sikhs currently number approximately 25 million across the globe, placing Sikhism below Buddhism and above Judaism in terms of size.
While small, the proportion of Canada's population who reported being Muslim, Hindu or Sikh has more than doubled in 20 years. From 2001 to 2021, these shares rose from 2.0% to 4.9% for Muslims, from 1.0% to 2.3% for Hindus and from 0.9% to 2.1% for Sikhs.
Punjabi Canadians number approximately 950,000 and account for roughly 2.6% of Canada's population, as per the 2021 Canadian census.