30 years of Tricycle
- Percentage of Americans who identified as Buddhist in 1990: 0.2%
- Percentage of Americans who identified as Buddhist in 2016: 1%
- Full-time Tricycle employees in 1991: 3
- Full-time Tricycle employees in 2021: 17
- Number of writers published by Tricycle in 1991 who were also published by Tricycle in 2021: 4
- Number of books by the Dalai Lama published as of 1991: 25
- Number of books by the Dalai Lama published as of 2021: 127
- Percentage of Americans who called religion “very important” to their life in 1992: 58%
- Percentage of Americans who called religion “very important” to their life in 2020: 48%
View past installments of Buddhism by the Numbers: Climate Change and Pilgrimage Sites, COVID-19, The Economics of Mindfulness, New York, Armenia, Hawaii, California, Virginia, Kentucky, South Korea, and the African Great Lakes Region.
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Data from Gallup poll, Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Barry A. Kosmin, The National Survey of Religious Identification (NSRI) 1990, Pew Research Forum, and Tricycle archives