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The term has also been used more narrowly, however, to refer only to religions outside the very large group of so-called Axial Age faiths that encompass both the Abrahamic religions and the chief Indian religions.

Under this narrower definition, which differs from that historically used by many ( though by no means all ) Christians and other Westerners, contemporary Paganism is a smaller and more marginal numerical phenomenon.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica estimates ( as of 2005 ), adherents of Chinese folk religion account for some 6. 3 % of world population, and adherents of tribal religions (" ethnoreligionists ") for another 4. 0 %.

The number of adherents of neopaganism is insignificant in comparison, amounting to 0. 02 % of world population at the most, or some 0. 4 % of the " ethnoreligious " population.