Statistically speaking

Of course, the Pope's death is a quite a common discussion topic at the coffee rooms. After all, CNN did manage to cover it 24x7. Have a look at this post by Nilu where he rants about the TV network. Strong words!

I forget why I started off this post.
ah...So I started wondering how many people in the world look up to the Catholic Church. I ended up at the CIA factbook and found these numbers:

Christians 32.71% (of which Roman Catholics 17.28%, Protestants 5.61%, Orthodox 3.49%, Anglicans 1.31%), Muslims 19.67%, Hindus 13.28%, Buddhists 5.84%, Sikhs 0.38%, Jews 0.23%, other religions 13.05%, non-religious 12.43%, atheists 2.41% (2002 est.)

Even if you consider just Catholics, it is nearly about 17% of the world. The Pope really IS a powerful position!!!