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That depends on what you include in religion and what you consider different religions.
Take for instance judaism, catholicism, orthodox christianity and many other forms of christianity (colectively known as protestant), you could call them all judaism (seeing as they all have the same god and believe in the jewish holy book), you could seperate them into judaism and christianity or into judaism, catholicism, orthodox christianity and protestant christianity or you could divide the protestants into many different groups as the greatest common characteristic of protestant churches is that they aren't catholic or orthodox.
And would something still be a religion if it has no (or only a few) followers anymore, like the ancient greek/roman religion (again would those be one or two religion(s)?) or the ancient egyptian religion?
Would worshipping one specific god of a pantheon, while still believeing they all exist, be a different religion from worshipping the entire pantheon?
Would you count "religions" like scientology?
Or parody religions like pastafarianism?
There are just way too many variables to give a numeric answer, altough even if you count as few as possible religions it's still gonna be a lot.
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