US study: Islam the fastest growing in the world

US study: Islam the fastest growing in the world

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Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 22:43
I expected a study by the research center in the United States in the world's growing number of Muslims faster than the followers of other religions, to the nearly 2050 the number of Christians in the world.

A Pew Research Center specialist follow-up growth in the world's religions that during the next four decades will remain the world's largest Christian religion, but increase the number of Muslims will grow faster than any other religion.

The researchers of this study is to collect more than 2,500 census official form of the population of more than 175 countries make up 95% of the world's population.

The study relied on birth rates among followers of different religions, and trends in religious conversion have.

The study predicts In case of the continuation of demographic trends Alhalah- that the number of the world's population 9.3 billion people in 2050, Muslims constitute about 2.8 billion people, and Christians 2.92 billion people, which means that Muslims will make up 30% of the world's population, while the percentage of Christians will remain as it is in the range of 31.4%.

In 2010 the number of Muslims in the world was 1.6 billion people, compared with 2.17 billion a Christian. But, according to the report, "would be equivalent to the number of Muslims about the number of Christians in the world" after four decades.

Interestingly, according to the report that Europe is the only region which will see a contraction in the number of population-where the number of Christians from 553 to 454 million will be reduced, as will decrease the number of Christians in the United States than three-quarters to two-thirds of the population in 2050.

It is expected that the number of Jews in the world to rise from 13 million and 860 thousand in 2010 to 16 million and 90 thousand in 2050.

The study says that the most important factors affecting the growth of the number of Muslims large proportion of young people and the high birth rates of Muslim women at 3.1 births, and among Christian women 2.7, and 2.4 to the Hindu, Jewish and at 2.3.

The study also addressed the trends shift between religions, and the study was limited to seventy-only state, which can not be given comprehensive information in this regard.

According to the results of the study, the highest proportion of shift between religions exist among Christians, and is expected to turn 106 million people about Christianity between 2010 and 2050, compared with 40 million turned to Christianity.

It is expected to lose Judaism 300 thousand as a result of religious transformation, while three million will join the Islamic religion.

The study predicts that the percentage of Muslims in Europe up 10% by 2050, and that the percentage of Muslims in the United States exceeds the proportion of Jews by the same year.

It will be the Hindu religion in third place and will constitute 14.9% of the world's population, followed by 13.2% of those who do not profess any religion.

The report predicts that India has become the first state in terms of the number of Muslim population with the survival of the majority of the Hindus, to go beyond that of Indonesia.

It will be the only religion that Buddhism does not expect to see a rise in the number of adherents due to aging factors and low fertility rates in the countries that follow that religion, such as China, Japan and Thailand.