Only 23 Million Indian Sikhs?

[vahegurujikifateh]

Sikhism: In the late 1990s the highest estimate we had for the number of Sikhs in the world was 20 million, from www.sikhs.org. Most estimates were between 16 and 18 million. About 80% of the world's Sikhs live in the province of Punjab, in India. Barrett's latest publications estimate 23 million Sikhs worldwide.

The Sikh homeland is the Punjab, in India, where today Sikhs make up approximately 61% of the population. This is the only place where Sikhs are in the majority. Sikhs have emigrated to countries all over the world - especially to English-speaking and East Asian nations. In doing so they have retained, to an unusually high degree, their distinctive cultural and religious identity.

Sikhs are not ubiquitious worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. But they can be found in many international cities and have become an especially strong religious presence in the United Kingdom and Canada.

Large National Sikh Communities

Nation Number Percent

India 19,000,000 2 %

United Kingdom 500,000 1

Canada 225,000 0.6

USA 100,000

Malaysia 50,000

Singapore 20,000

[ladli-fauj]

we have more than 100,000 Sikhs in the USA, that number is wrong, in northern California alone we have a little more than 100,000 Sikhs

[hkaurP]

They announced at the Gurdwara that we have more than 200,000 Sikhs in USA.