page_title: List of countries by Zoroastrian population
hierarchical_section_title: List of countries by Zoroastrian population
caption_attribution_description: English: Fire Altar, Ateshgah of Baku
context_page_description: A 2012 study featured in the FEZANA Journal, a quarterly publication of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, published a demographic picture of Zoroastrians around the world and a comparison with a similar study done in 2004. The study gives a global estimate of 111,691-121,962 Zoroastrians, roughly half of them in India and Iran.
  The Zoroastrian Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has claimed that many people in Iraqi Kurdistan have converted to Zoroastrianism recently, however this has not been confirmed by independent sources. Millions of Yazidis, Shabakis and Yarsanis live in Iraq and Iran who follow pre-islamic Mithraic and syncretic religions similar to and influenced by Zoroastrianism as well, and have been included as Zoroastrian under some research methods and population studies due to their similarities.
  Currently, Zoroastrianism is an officially recognized religion in Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran and India The Zoroastrian faith has around 500 followers in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to official research from the religious affairs committee from the parliament.
context_section_description: A 2012 study featured in the FEZANA Journal, a quarterly publication of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA), published a demographic picture of Zoroastrians around the world and a comparison with a similar study done in 2004. The study gives a global estimate of 111,691-121,962 Zoroastrians, roughly half of them in India (made up of the Parsi and Irani subgroups) and Iran.
  The Zoroastrian Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has claimed that many people in Iraqi Kurdistan have converted to Zoroastrianism recently, however this has not been confirmed by independent sources. Millions of Yazidis, Shabakis and Yarsanis live in Iraq and Iran who follow pre-islamic Mithraic and syncretic religions similar to and influenced by Zoroastrianism as well, and have been included as Zoroastrian under some research methods and population studies due to their similarities.
  Currently, Zoroastrianism is an officially recognized religion in Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran and India The Zoroastrian faith has around 500 followers in  Iraqi Kurdistan, according to official research from the religious affairs committee from the parliament.
caption: Zoroastrian fire temple in Baku, Azerbaijan
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