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Religious Martyrs Death Count

David Barrett, Todd Johnson, Justin Long
- World Christian Encyclopedia (2001): This book is the standard
reference work for religious statistics of all kinds, and both Britannica
and the World Almanac cite from it. It has a single page
[http://gem-werc.org/gd/gd16.pdf] estimating the number of martyrs since the
origin of each religion:

Muslim martyrs: 80M
Christian martyrs: 70M
- 20th Century: 45.4M
- At the hands of...
+ Atheists: 31,689,000
+ Muslims 9,121,000
+ Ethnoreligionists: 7,469,000
+ Christians: 5,538,000
+ Quasi-religionists 2,712,000
+ Mahayana Buddhists: 1,651,000
+ Hindus: 676,000
+ Zoroastrians: 384,000
Hindu martyrs: 20M
Buddhist martyrs: 10M
Jewish: 9M
Ethnoreligious: 6M
Sikh: 2M
Baha'i: 1M
Other religious martyrs: 5M
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# The book defines martyrs as

1. Believers in Christ (U.O.N.)
2. Who have lost their lives
3. Prematurely
4. In situations of witness
5. As a result of human hostility.