This is another area which the report recognises requires further research before definite figures can be arrived at. For these reasons, the report prudently stresses that the figure of , "is an estimate only, and as such should not be given a high level of confidence".
If we take the figure at face value, what conclusions does suggest? For one thing the much quoted line that conversions "nearly doubled" is an exaggeration: they rose by between half and two-thirds. Another is that there is nothing very surprising about them.
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Facts are more important than ever. Why Muslims are the world's fastest-growing religious group. Many religions heavily concentrated in one or two countries. The countries with the 10 largest Christian populations and the 10 largest Muslim populations.
Topics Islam Muslims Around the World. Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Progressive Left? Or somewhere in between? Take our quiz to find out. Take our quiz to find out which one of our nine political typology groups is your best match. If current trends continue, by … The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.
The global Buddhist population will be about the same size it was in , while the Hindu and Jewish populations will be larger than they are today. India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia. In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in to two-thirds in , and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion.
Muslims will be more numerous in the U. Four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa. Beyond the Year This report describes how the global religious landscape would change if current demographic trends continue. Changing Religious Majorities Several countries are projected to have a different religious majority in than they did in This overall projection 9. A recent update from the United Nations has a somewhat higher estimate, 9.
The U. The Pew Research Center consulted several scholars on this historical question. Todd M. Bulliet, say it is possible that Muslims may have outnumbered Christians globally sometime between and C.
All of the experts acknowledged that estimates of the size of religious groups in the Middle Ages are fraught with uncertainty. Because of the scarcity of census and survey data, Pew Research has not projected the size of individual religions within this category.
Estimates of the global size of these faiths generally come from other sources, such as the religious groups themselves. By far the largest of these groups is Sikhs, who numbered about 25 million in , according to the World Religion Database.
Estimates from other sources on the size of additional groups in this category can be found in the sidebar in Chapter 2. Jews comprised 0. Both figures are rounded to 0. In countries with low infant and child mortality rates, a Total Fertility Rate close to 2. Replacement-level fertility is higher in countries with elevated mortality rates. For more information on how fertility shapes population growth, see Chapter 1. These projections model a dynamic migrant population in GCC countries, in which some migrants leave as others arrive and, over time, there are net gains in the size of the foreign-born population within each GCC country.
A Pew Research survey found that more than one-in-five U. For the purposes of the religious group projections in this report, people who identify their religion as atheist, agnostic or nothing in particular are categorized as unaffiliated.
To avoid double-counting, they are not included in the Jewish population. If the projected Jewish numbers were expanded to include cultural or ethnic Jews, it is possible that the size of the more broadly defined Jewish population might be greater than the projected number of U.
Muslims in However, other studies by the Pew Research Center show that Catholics have been declining and Protestants have been rising as a percentage of the population in some Latin American countries.
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