Friday, April 3, 2015
The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050
The Pew Research Center projects that, if current trends continue, by 2050:
◾The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.
◾Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in countries such as the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.
◾The global Buddhist population will be about the same size it was in 2010, while the Hindu and Jewish populations will be larger than they are today.
◾In Europe, Muslims will make up 10% of the overall population.
◾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 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion. Muslims will be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.
◾Four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa.
KJ
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2015/04/the-future-of-world-religions-population-growth-projections-2010-2050.html
