Badminton ranks on the number 22nd position in the most popular sports list.Badminton is the world's fastest racket sport with the speed of the shuttlecock reaching almost 200mph. This sport is not recognized in the US with most Americans thinking it is just a backyard bbq thing. This is how badminton got the bad reputation in the US.
China & South Korea
The most populated Islamic countries in Asia are Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Different sports are popular in different countries. (Eg. Badminton in Japan, Basketball in USA, Rowing in Great Britian.) But Athletics is a sport popular in most countries.
Badminton has its origins in ancient civilizations such as China, India, and Greece. However, it is most commonly associated with Asian culture, particularly in countries like China, Indonesia, and Malaysia where the sport is widely popular.
Europe
Tenpin bowling is played all over the world. It is most popular in the US and UK, but is very popular in Asian countries as well. It is the most popular indoor sport in the world.
primarily in China and parts of India, some in other southeast Asian countries
badminton
The curently World no 2. badminton singels Lee Chong Wei. He is a talented badminton player in Malaysia.
Table tennis and Badminton.
it is most likely badminton or ping pong.
This may or may not be a big assumption to make in answering this question, but one might assume you are speaking from an American point of view:In most countries, including USA, the most popular sports are team games.There are some Asian countries, who culturally value individual excellence, where certain individual sports are perhaps the most popular. In some Asian countries, for instance, table tennis and badminton are the most popular sports ... but even within these, the popularity of tennis continues to grow.Tennis is probably growing in popularity with time in many countries because now that it is fully professional, people see it as a means of making a living - and, possibly, a good one.To return to the original question proper: Among the "individual sports" available, tennis is probably the most popular sport in most countries in the world ... but most countries still prefer one or another team sport to tennis.USA would have a number of team sports more popular than tennis - especially, in winter.