The dream reflects your lonely state of mind or fear of trusting people around you. : Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious. Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, Size & Demographic Characteristics of Religious Groups, Muslims are a growing presence in U.S., but still face negative views from the public, Republicans account for a small but steady share of U.S. Muslims, The share of Americans who leave Islam is offset by those who become Muslim, New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow, 60% of Americans Would Be Uncomfortable With Provider Relying on AI in Their Own Health Care, Gender pay gap in U.S. hasnt changed much in two decades. Muslim women's low educational attainment is a likely factor; demographers find that higher educational attainment among women is tied to lower fertility rates". [328] By the end of 2100 Muslims are expected to outnumber Christians. [3] In 1990, 1.1billion people were Muslims, while in 2010, 1.6billion people were Muslims. [60] The Vatican's 2008 yearbook of statistics revealed that for the first time, Islam has outnumbered the Roman Catholics globally. [340] Islam is widely considered as the fastest growing religion in Europe due primarily to immigration and above average birth rates. [393] Additionally, while in principle Reform Judaism favors seeking new members for the faith, this position has not translated into active proselytism, instead of taking the form of an effort to reach out to non-Jewish spouses of intermarried couples. It is published by Brill and is the most comprehensive database of religious demographics available to scholars, providing data for all of the world's countries. Christianity is expected to have the largest net loss of followers between 2010 and 2050 in North America (-28 million), Europe (-24 million), Latin America and the Caribbean (-9.5 million), sub-Saharan Africa (-3 million), and Asia-Pacific (2.4 million). [511] The Zoroastrian Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has said that as many as 14,000 people in Iraqi Kurdistan have converted to Zoroastrianism recently, with community leaders repeating this and speculating that even more Zoroastrians in the region are practicing their faith secretly. [65], The significant growth of Christianity in non-Western countries led to regional distribution changes of Christians. Schnabel and Bock argued also that evangelicalism and Conservative Christianity has persisted and expanded in the United States. [483][466][484][485], Johnson and Barrett (2004) estimate that the global Sikh population increases annually by 392,633 (1.7% per year, based on 2004 figures); this percentage includes births, deaths, and conversions. It is expected to increase up to 62million by 2100, given that the anticipated growth rate of 1.7% per year and adding at least 400,000 followers annually. [362][363], According to Rodney Stark, Islam was spread after military conquests after Arab armies began overtaking Christian regions from Syria to North Africa and Spain,[364] as well as Zoroastrian, Buddhist and Hindu regions in Central Asia, parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia via military invasions,[365][366][367] traders and Sufi missionaries. These cases do not contribute to a growth of Christianity overall, but rather to a substitution of a brand of Christianity with another one. But individuals are now renouncing Islam at greater rates than ever before. [279] Syria is home to the largest Druzite community in the world, according to a study published by Columbia University, the number of Syrian Druze increased from 684,000 in 2010 to 730,000 in mid of 2018. Chart courtesy of Ryan Burge Thus, the likelihood of leaving Islam appears to be at its highest when young people's lives are the most unsettled. [125] Indonesia is home to the largest Christian community made up of converts from their former Islamic faith; according to various sources, since the mid and late 1960s, between two million to 2.5 million Muslims converted to Christianity. Among this group, 55% no longer identify with any religion, according to the 2017 survey. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax In fact, about half of all converts to Islam (53%) identified as Protestant before converting; another 20% were Catholic. Islam began in Arabia and from 633 AD until the late 10th century it was spread through conquests, far-reaching trade and missionary activity. "[302] People switching their religions will likely have no effect on the growth of the Muslim population,[6] as the number of people who convert to Islam is roughly similar to those who leave Islam. Hinduism is the largest religion in the countries of India, Nepal, and Mauritius. [270], Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world. [62] Changes in worldwide Protestantism over the last century have been significant. [85] According to Pew Research Center, "largely through the efforts of missionaries and churches, Christianity has grown rapidly in South Korea over the past century",[84] and has grown from 1% in 1900,[84] to 20.7% in 1985 and to 29.3% in 2010,[47] And the Catholic Church has increased its membership by 70% in the last ten years,[86] according to Pew Research Center, "the growth of Catholics has occurred across all age groups, among men and women and across all education levels. Religion. [358], There exist different views among scholars about the spread of Islam. The majority of post-9/11 converts are women, according to experts. [245] While according to the book The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion, which written by professor of the Christian mission, Charles E. Farhadian, and professor of psychology, Lewis Rambo, in mid-2005 approximately 15.5million converted to Christianity from another religion, while approximately 11.7million left Christianity, most of them becoming irreligious, resulting in a net gain of 3.8 million. [320] Globally, Muslims were younger (median age of 23) than the overall population (median age of 28) as of 2010. [299] From 1990 to 2010, the global Muslim population increased at an average annual rate of 2.2%. And as the ranks of the nones have swelled,. Growth of religion involves the spread of individual religions and the increase in the numbers of religious adherents around the world. [47] And according to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, within the next four decades, Christians will remain the world's largest religion; if current trends continue, by 2050 the number of Christians will reach 3billion (or 31.4%). This scenario (Chinese scenario) is based primarily on sensitivity tests. [393] As a result of the efforts by these and other Jewish groups over the past 25 years, there has been a trend (known as the Baal teshuva movement) for secular Jews to become more religiously observant, though the demographic implications of the trend are unknown. "[411], The largest proportions of the total world Bah' population[412] were found in sub-Saharan Africa (29.9%) and South Asia (26.8%), followed by Southeast Asia (12.7%) and Latin America (12.2%). [43], According to scholars Miikka Ruokanen and Paulos Huang of University of Helsinki, the rebirth of traditional religion in China is faster and larger than the spread of other religions in the country, such as Buddhism and Christianity:[44]. While all these deaths are not attributable to ISIS alone, ISIS is . [332], Generally, there are few reports about how many people leave Islam in Muslim majority countries. CRTEIL, France The spacious and elegant modern building, in the heart of this middle-class suburb of Paris, is known as "the mosque of the converts.". [124] According to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2007, experts estimated that thousands of Muslims in the Western world converted to Christianity annually, but were not publicized due to fear of retribution. [253], It's been reported also that increasing numbers of young people or educated people are becoming Christians in several countries such as China,[254][255] Hong Kong,[256] Indonesia,[257] Iran,[258][259] Japan,[95] Singapore,[260][261][262] and South Korea. 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Read our research on: Congress | Economy | Gender. [39] Further in detail, 12million people have passed some formal initiation into Taoism, or adhere to the official Chinese Taoist Association. [67] That caused Protestantism to be called a primarily non-Western religion. There is an ongoing silent migration away from the church of an estimated 3,500 individuals each and every day. In the Diaspora, in almost every country the Jewish population in general is either declining or steady, but Orthodox and Haredi Jewish communities, whose members often shun birth control for religious reasons, have experienced rapid population growth. [70] On the other hand, Central and Eastern European countries did not experience a decline in the percentage of Christians, as the proportion of Christians in these countries have mostly been stable or even increasing. [465] Outside of India, the largest Sikh communities are in the core Anglosphere, with 771,790 in Canada (2.1% Sikh),[466][467] 472,498 in the United States (0.1% Sikh),[470] 432,429 in the United Kingdom (0.7% Sikh),[471][472][473] 210,397 in Australia (0.8% Sikh),[474][475] and 40,908 in New Zealand (0.9% Sikh). The demographic disparity between the religious, growing global South and the aging, secular global North will peak around 2050. will continue. Those who have left Islam are more likely to be immigrants from Iran (22%) than those who have not switched faiths (8%). [308] According to a report by CNN, "Islam has drawn converts from all walks of life, most notably African-Americans". When the kingdom fell to Islamic influences and Brawijaya V converted to Islam in 1478, Sabdapalon cursed the King. [300] According to a 2019 study by the Pew Research Center; "around the globe, Muslims have higher fertility rates than Christians on average. 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[313] Experts say that conversions to Islam have doubled in the past 25 years in France, among the six million Muslims in France, about 100,000 are converts. [516], The World Religion Database[517] (WRD) is a peer-reviewed database of international religious statistics based on research conducted at the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs at Boston University. [65] According to one source, Protestants constituted respectively 2.5%, 2%, 0.5% of Latin Americans, Africans and Asians. The growth of Muslims is also expected in the Middle East-North Africa region, It is projected to increase from about 300 million in 2010 to more than 550million in 2050. Studies in the 21st century suggest that, in terms of percentage and worldwide spread,[1][2] Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in the world. At . [1] According to them, there was a fast annual growth of Buddhism in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and several Western European countries (19102010). A 2014 study indicated that over 1.2 million people will leave the church in the next year. [195], Resurgent Islam is one of the most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world. The number of Muslims will equal the number of Christians around the . Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. [507], There has been recent conversions of Kurds from Islam to Zoroastrianism in Kurdistan for different reasons, including a sense of national and/or ethnic identity or for recent conflicts with radical Muslims, which had been enthusiastically received by Zoroastrians worldwide. Conversions involving Islam sometimes look like a one-way street in the West. Since then, the Muslim population has continued to grow at a rate of roughly 100,000 per year, driven both by higher fertility rates among Muslim Americans as well as the continued migration of Muslims to the U.S. Learn about Muslims and Islam through four short lessons delivered to your inbox every other day. [301], On the other hand, in 2010, the Pew Forum found "that statistical data for Muslim conversions is scarce and as per their little available information, there is no substantial net gain or loss of Muslims due to religious conversion. [508][509][510], The number of Kurdish Zoroastrians, along with those of non-ethnic converts, has been estimated differently. [319] A new study of Population Reference Bureau by demographers Charles Westoff and Tomas Frejka suggests that the fertility gap between Muslims and non-Muslims is shrinking and although the Muslim immigrants do have more children than other Europeans their fertility tends to decline over time, often faster than among non-Muslims. [403][404] In the United States, only about a third of children from intermarriages affiliate with Jewish religious practice. According to Johnson and Grim, Buddhism has grown from a total of 138 million adherents in 1910, of which 137million were in Asia, to 495million in 2010, of which 487million are in Asia. Still others said they wanted to belong to a community (10%), that marriage or a relationship was the prime motivator (9%), that they were introduced to the faith by a friend, or that they were following a public leader (9%). From the late 1920s to the late 1980s the religion was harassed and banned in the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc,[427][428][429] and then again from the 1970s into the 1990s across some countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Abu Bakr Islam is now the second most popular religion on the planet with more . This has only been achieved in rare cases, and then only for particular countries, such as the American Religious Identification Survey[451] in the United States, or census data from Australia (which has included a voluntary religious question since 1911). Besides, Christianity has grown enormously in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. [390] Israel is the only country with a Jewish population that is consistently growing through natural population growth and extensive immigration, although the Jewish populations of other countries, in Europe and North America, have recently increased through immigration. [305] A 2007 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report argued that some Muslim population projections are overestimated, as they assume that all descendants of Muslims will become Muslims even in cases of mixed parenthood. The main reason for this is the social and legal repercussions associated with leaving Islam in many Muslim majority countries, up to and including the death penalty for apostasy. [39] Comparing this with other surveys, evidence suggests that nowadays three-fifths to four-fifths of the Chinese believe in folk religion. [314] On the other hand, according to Pew Research, the number of American converts to Islam is roughly equal to the number of American Muslims who leave Islam and this is unlike other religions in the United States where the number of those who leave these religions is greater than the number of those who convert to it,[195] and most people who leave Islam become unaffiliated, according to same study ex-Muslims were more likely to be Christians compare to ex-Hindus or ex-Jews. [122] Many people who convert to Christianity face persecution. [346] He further points out that Muslims are not a monolithic or cohesive group,[347] Most academics who have analysed the demographics dismiss the predictions that the EU will have Muslim majorities. [319] Between 2010 and 2015, with exception of the Middle East and North Africa, Muslim fertility of any other region in the world was higher than the rate for the region as a whole. [103] Doug Saunders states that by 2030 Muslims and Non-Muslims birth rates will be equal in Germany, Greece, Spain and Denmark without taking account of the Muslims immigration to these countries. Beginning in July 637, the Muslims began a siege of Jerusalem which lasted for five (hardly bloodless) months before Jerusalem fell in February 638. [226][227] However, these forecasts lack reliable data on religious conversion in China, but according to media reports and expert assessments, it is possible that the rapid growth of Christianity in China may maintain, or even increase, the current numerical advantage of Christianity as the largest religion in the world. [220][221][222] Churches in Europe say that there is an increase in the number of Muslims converting to Christianity among immigrants. As per the Pew Research study, Muslim populations will grow in absolute number in all regions of the world between 2010 and 2050. 14/Mar/2021. [318] With 3.1 children per woman, Muslims have higher fertility levels than the world's overall population between 2010 and 2015. Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, Size & Demographic Characteristics of Religious Groups, Muslims are a growing presence in U.S., but still face negative views from the public, Republicans account for a small but steady share of U.S. Muslims, The share of Americans who leave Islam is offset by those who become Muslim, New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow, 60% of Americans Would Be Uncomfortable With Provider Relying on AI in Their Own Health Care, Gender pay gap in U.S. hasnt changed much in two decades. [206] Converting to Christianity is growing among Muslims in the Albanian diaspora,[207][208] Iranian diaspora,[209] and Syrian diaspora,[210] and among Muslim Maghrebis in France,[211] and Kurds and Turks in Germany. The mystic priest predicted to free the archipelago from the clutches of Islam and restore the glory of the Hindu Javanese religion. [430][431] The most intense opposition has been in Iran and neighboring Shia-majority countries,[432] considered by some scholars and watch agencies as a case of attempted genocide. [90] Some reports also show that the number of the Chinese Indonesians Christians have increased,[91][92] according to scholar Gavin W. Jones of Australian National University, "there has been a rapid growth in the number of Chinese Christians" in Indonesia, and "conversion of Chinese to Christianity accelerated in the 1960s, especially in East Java, and for Indonesia as a whole the proportion of Chinese who were Catholics rose from 2 percent in 1957 to 6 percent in 1969". ", Jenkins, Philip. As teenagers and 20-somethings seek to earn a. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. [482] In contrast to the religion's slowing growth in India, Sikhism is the fastest growing religion in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Besides, the Muslim population in sub-Saharan Africa is forecast to grow from about 250million in 2010 to nearly 670million in 2050 which is more than double. Since our first estimate of the size of the Muslim American population, the number of U.S. Muslims has been growing rapidly, albeit from a relatively low base. [276] Over the centuries a number of the Druze embraced Christianity,[222][221][277][278] Islam and other religions. The birth rate is expected to be the main factor in the growth of Christianity. And by 2050, the U.S. Muslim population is projected to reach8.1 million, or 2.1% of the nations total population nearly twice the share of today. The finding is one of a number on how. [406], In 1939, the core Jewish population reached its historical peak of 17 million (0.8% of the global population).
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