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I don't know that it's possible to determine an exact answer, because there are so many different cultures and religions that practice exorcism. A quick web search shows that the Vatican still endorses exorcism and in, in 1999, issued an updated exorcism ritual; even the Pope performed a successful exorcism in 1982. (http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9901/26/exorcism/) In New York alone, the Catholic archdiocese estimates that over 300 were performed between 1990 and 2000 (http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Religious-Phenomena/Exorcism.html). According the Wikipedia article on exorcism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism), most exorcisms today take place in eastern Europe and Africa, so an educated guess would say that these are small, local affairs that might not be tracked by any organization at all. And it also seems likely that the frequency of exorcisms has decreased immensely over the last century in western countries, so there might have been many more per year in the early 1900s than there are now. By extrapolation, I'd say that many, many thousands have taken place in the last 100 years.
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