Religion

Number

Description

 Sites

85,000

All registered religion sites 

Professionals

300,000

Ministers, priests and other full time administrators

Religion bodies

3,000

National associations and organizations

Publishers

74

Institutions publish religion books, magazines and news

Lamas Temples

13,000

Temples and monasteries

Lamas & nuns

120,000

Full time

Buddha's temples

3,000

Temples and monasteries

Buddha

1,700

Full time

Taoist temples

1,500

Permanent

Priests/priestesses

25,000

Full time

Religion believers

100 million

Most of them Buddhists or Taoists

Imams temples

40,000

Permanent

Islamic temples

30,000

Permanent

 Moslems

18 million 

Mainly minorities in North, West or South-West

Churches

4,000

Independent from Rome

Clergymen

4,000

Full time

Catholics

4 million 

 Under national association

Churches

12,000

Permanent

Assembly places

25,000

Warship places other than churches

 Protestant

10 million

Comparing with 700,000 before 1949