The Druzites reside primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. [342] Pew study also reveals that Muslims are younger than other Europeans. Islam is projected to have a net gain of followers in Sub-Saharan Africa (+2.9 million) and Asia-Pacific (+0.95 million), but net loss of followers in North America (-0.58 million) and Europe (-0.06 million). [338], It is often reported from various sources, including the German domestic intelligence service (Bundesnachrichtendienst), that Salafism is the fastest-growing Islamic movement in the world. [283] Approximately 94% of the world's Hindus live in India. Low fertility rates and aging populations in countries such as China, Thailand and Japan are the main demographic reasons for the expected shrinkage in the Buddhist population in the years ahead". [26], According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 32 million babies were born to Buddhist mothers and roughly 20 million Buddhists died, meaning that the natural increase in the Buddhists population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 12 million over this period". And many people who left last year are coming back too. Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Malaysia are said to have the fastest-growing Christian communities and the majority of the new believers are "upwardly mobile, urban, middle-class Chinese". The report also shows that the fall in the birth rate of Muslims slowed down the growth rate from 1990 to 2010. Druze is a major religion in the Levant region. When we first conducted a study of Muslim Americans in 2007, we estimated that there were 2.35 million Muslims of all ages (including 1.5 million adults) in the U.S. By 2011, the number of Muslims had grown to 2.75 million (including 1.8 million adults). Since the year 2000, the Israeli Druze community has witnessed a significant decrease in fertility-rate and a significant increase in life expectancy. According to the Pew Research Center, religious conversion may have a modest impact on religiously unaffiliated population between 2010 and 2050; religiously unaffiliated are expected to gain 61 million adherents. Minorities make up just 3.6 percent of Pakistan's 220 million people and often are the target of discrimination.. "They were reporting on the mass conversions of Muslimsas many as 6-8 millionin sub-Saharan, Africa, and they have repeated the warning every year," he said. Do Muslims have more children than other women in western Europe? It is the same mental and emotional struggle Cottee observed when researching his book. [332], Generally, there are few reports about how many people leave Islam in Muslim majority countries. Of those converting, only 22 percent are becoming Christian adherents. [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. Plattner, Marc F. and Costopoulos, Philip J. [461] The clash of internal currents is wearing the movement down a year and a half after it regained power in Afghanistan. Learn about Muslims and Islam through four short lessons delivered to your inbox every other day. [119][120][121][127][128][129][130], Christians of Muslim background communities can be found in Afghanistan,[131][132] Albania,[133][134][135][136][137][138] Algeria,[139][140][141][142][143] Argentina,[144] Australia,[124] Austria,[145][146] Azerbijan,[147][148] Bangladesh,[149][150] Belgium,[124] Bosnia and Herzegovina,[124] Bulgaria,[151] Canada,[124] Denmark,[152][153] Egypt,[124] Ethiopia,[124] Finland,[154][155] France,[124][156] Georgia (Abkhazia),[157] Germany,[158] Greece,[159][160] India (kashmir),[161] Iran,[162][163][164][165][166][167] Iraq,[168] Kazakhstan,[169] Kosovo,[170][171] Kyrgyzstan,[172][173] Lebanon,[174] Malaysia,[175] Morocco,[176][177][178][179][180] the Netherlands,[181][153] Nigeria,[124] Russia,[124] Saudi Arabia,[124] Singapore,[182] Sweden,[183][184] Syria,[185] Tanzania,[124] Tajikistan,[186] Tunisia,[187][188] Turkey,[189][190][191][192] United Kingdom,[193][194] the United States,[195][196] Uzbekistan,[197] and other countries. One striking difference between former Muslims and those who have always been Muslim is in the share who hail from Iran. forced converts from Islam. 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. According to the data revealed by the Pew Research Centre, about 100,000 Muslims abandon Islam each year and roughly the same number convert to Islam every year. [501][502] According to the National Commission for Minorities, there are a "variety of causes that are responsible for this steady decline in the population of the community", the most significant of which were childlessness and migration-[503] Demographic trends project that by the year 2020 the Parsis will number only 23,000. Still, based on our own survey and demographic research, as well as outside sources, Pew Research Center estimates that there wereabout 3.45 million Muslims of all ages living in the U.S. in 2017, and that Muslims madeup about 1.1% of the total U.S. population. [274][275] The Druze faith do not accept converts to their faith, nor practice proselytism. [270] The fertility rate for Israeli Druze in 2017 is 2.1 children per woman, while the fertility rate among Jewish women (3.2) and Muslim women (3.4) and the fertility rate among Israeli Christian women (1.9). 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. [94] According to a poll conducted by the Gallup Organization in 2006, Christianity has increased significantly in Japan, particularly among youth, and a high number of teens are becoming Christians. [38], It was reported in 2013 that around 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year, with most of them being women. [47] It is expected that by 2025 there will be 600million Christians in Africa. The estimated world's Sikh population was over 30 million in 2020, and it will reach 42million by 2050. 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. The story we normally hear is of an Islam growing from strength to strength, and how for all the phobia that exists around it, it remains the fastest growing religion with 1.6 billion followers across the world and acquiring new converts on an almost daily basis. [388], According to the Pew Research Center published on 2010, religious conversion may have little impact on the Jewish population between 2010 and 2050; Jews are expected to lose 0.3 million adherents, between 2010 and 2050. Statistics commonly measure the absolute number of adherents, the percentage of the absolute growth per-year, and the growth of converts in the world. Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslim fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces, which earlier pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), murdered at least 17 people, possibly many more, in the Christian-majority (95%) African nation. He vowed to return after 500 years at the time of natural disaster and political corruption. Since 2010, the rate of increase was of 0.3% in the Americas and Europe. [480] The Sikh population has the lowest gender balance in India, with only 903 women per 1,000 men according to the 2011 Indian census,[481] although the sex ratio at birth for Indian Sikhs has rapidly improved from 130 male births per 100 female births in 2001 to 110 male births per 100 female births in 2019-21, now only slightly above the average for India as a whole (108 male births per female births). : 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. At . [287], Hinduism is a growing religion in countries such as Ghana,[288] Russia,[289] and the United States. Ellethy 2014, p. 181. by Daniel. Besides, Christianity has grown enormously in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. [99], Catholic Church membership in 2013 was 1.254billion, which is 17.7% of the world population, an increase from 437million, in 1950[100] and 654million, in 1970. [113] According to a 2012 study, 17% of Jews in Russia identify themselves as Christians. [352] A survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2017 found that conversion has a negative impact on the growth of the Muslim population in Europe, with roughly 160,000 more people leaving Islam than converting into Islam between 2010 and 2016. [476], Primarily for socio-economic reasons (Sikhs being the wealthiest and most educated of India's four major religious groups),[477] Indian Sikhs have the lowest adjusted growth rate of any major religious group in India, at 8.4% per decade (from 2001 to 2011), compared to the national rate of 17.7% per decade. [220][221][222] Churches in Europe say that there is an increase in the number of Muslims converting to Christianity among immigrants. [263] It's been also reported that conversion into Christianity is significantly increasing among Korean,[264] Chinese,[265] and Japanese in the United States. The majority of post-9/11 converts are women, according to experts. [19][20][21][22][23], Statistical data on conversion to and from Islam are scarce. 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. ), According to Pew Research Center survey in 2012, religiously unaffiliated (include agnostic and atheist) make up about 18.2% of Europe's population,[450] and they make up the majority of the population in only two European countries: Czech Republic (76%) and Estonia (60%). Buddhism is the majority religion in nine countries: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan, Mongolia, Japan and Singapore. [63][64][65][66] Since 1900, due primarily to conversion, Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. [270] About 26.3% of the Israeli Druze population are under 14 years old and about 6.1% of the Israeli Druze are 65 years and over. [81] According to scholar Terence Chong, since 1980s Protestantism is expanding in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and South Korea. [41][42], This growth reverses the rapid decline that Chinese traditional religion faced in the 20th century. [362][368][369][370] According to some scholars, the Jizya (poll tax) was the most important factor in the mass conversion to Islam, the tax paid by all non-Muslims (Dhimmis which translated means "protected persons") in Islamic empires[371][372][373][374] While other scholars oppose this belief, because the jizya was not of great value, and those who could not pay it were exempt from it. [420], From the Bah' Faith's origins in the 19th century until the 1950s, the vast majority of Bahs were found in Iran; converts from outside Iran were mostly found in India and the Western world. Such forecasts cannot be validated empirically and are contentious, but are useful for comparison. The death of a bald eagle that succumbed to what experts suspect is rat poisoning has led a push from wildlife advocates for state lawmakers to do more to protect the birds of prey and other creatures. Changes in son preference, ultrasound use and fertility", "Census shocker: Sikhs report lowest sex ratio", "India's Sex Ratio at Birth Begins To Normalize", "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables Religion (108), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey", "What is the Fastest Growing Religion in Australia? Of the total 506 people who registered their change of religion with the government, 241 were those who converted from Christianity or Islam to Hinduism. [348] [54] By 2050, Christianity is expected to remain the majority of population and the largest religious group in Latin America and Caribbean (89%),[55] North America (66%),[56] Europe (65.2%)[57] and Sub Saharan Africa (59%). In the year 610 a 40 year old illiterate trader in the deserts of Arabia received a revelation that would change the world. Those who have left Islam are more likely to be immigrants from Iran (22%) than those who have not switched faiths (8%). [35] The decline is due to several factors such as the low fertility level among Buddhists (1.6 children per woman),[36] and the old age (median age of 34), compared to the overall population. [124][a] Countries with the largest numbers of Muslims converted to Christianity according to this study include Indonesia (6,500,000),[125] Nigeria (600,000),[125] Iran (500,000 versus only 500 in 1979),[125] the United States (450,000),[126] Ethiopia (400,000) and Algeria (380,000). In India, Islam was brought by various traders and rulers from Afghanistan and other places. It is due to the fall of the fertility rate in many Muslim majority countries. Another study found that the number of people who will leave Islam is 9,400,000 and the number of converts to Islam is 12,620,000 so the net gain to Islam through conversion should be 3 million between 2010 and 2050, . [47] In South Africa, Pentecostalism has grown from 0.2%, in 1951, to 7.6%, in 2001. [39] Further in detail, 12million people have passed some formal initiation into Taoism, or adhere to the official Chinese Taoist Association. Islam will overcome Christianity to become the most popular religion in the world by 2070, with migration seeing a surge in Europe and America's Muslim population, research shows Islam's share. The Next Christendom: The Rise of Global Christianity. [458], According to a religious forecast for 2050 by Pew Research Center, the percentage of the world's population that is unaffiliated or nonreligious is expected to drop, from 16% of the world's total population in 2010 to 13% in 2050. Professor Eric Kaufmann, whose academic specialization is how demography affects irreligion/religion/politics, wrote in 2012: In my book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? But while the share of American Muslim adults who are converts to Islam also is about one-quarter (23%), a much smaller share of current Christians (6%) are converts. [522], According to the Pew Research Center published in 2010, religious conversion may have little impact on religious demographics between 2010 and 2050. [454] In Australia, census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics give "no religion" the largest gains in absolute numbers over the 15 years from 1991 to 2006, from 2,948,888 (18.2% of the population that answered the question) to 3,706,555 (21.0% of the population that answered the question). More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. [482] In contrast to the religion's slowing growth in India, Sikhism is the fastest growing religion in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. [478][479] Sikhs have the lowest fertility rate amongst India's four major religious groups, at 1.6 children per woman in 2019-20. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. "People died in my . [223][224], Religious conversions are projected to have a "modest impact on changes in the religious groups including Christian population" between 2010 and 2050;[225] and may negatively affect the growth of Christian population and it's share of the world's populations "slightly". [327] In Europe Muslim population will be nearly double (from 5.9% to 10.2%). [52] Christians have 2.7 children per woman, which is above replacement level (2.1). [72] Christianity is still the largest religion in Central and Eastern Europe, according to a 2017 study by the Pew Research Center, the share of adults who identify themselves as Eastern Orthodox in Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria has been significantly increased between 1991 and 2015. In recent years, "Europe has experienced a record influx of asylum seekers fleeing from Syria and predominantly Muslim . Naresh Mitra / TNN / Jan 11, 2016, 03:10 IST. [319] While Muslim birth rates are expected to experience a decline, it will remain above replacement level and higher fertility than the world's overall by 2050. 2010 Chinese Jesus Life Survey conducted by Dr. Yang Fenggang, Purdue University's Center on Religion and Chinese Society. [361], In 2010 Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria was home for (47.8%) of the world's Muslims. replacement level. 2002. Thus, this report excludes religious conversion as a direct factor from the projection of Muslim population growth. [38], According to Mark Jrgensmeyer of the University of California, popular Protestantism is one of the most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world. [64][66] Much of the growth has occurred after World War II, when decolonization of Africa and abolition of various restrictions against Protestants in Latin American countries occurred. The number of officers leaving the police, in each of the last five years, is shown in Table 4.1 by reason for departure. [446][447], In terms of absolute numbers, irreligion appears to be increasing (along with secularization generally). Additionally, in some countries, legal and social consequences make conversion difficult. [51], By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3billion. [358], There exist different views among scholars about the spread of Islam. [104][105][106] In Brazil, the total number of Protestants jumped from 16.2% in 2000[107] to 22.2% in 2010 (for the first time, the percentage of Catholics in Brazil is less than 70%). In surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, Pew found that 65 percent of Americans described themselves as Christian, a 12 percent decline over the past decade. Lesser populations are found in North America (7.6%) and the Middle East/North Africa (6.2%), while the smallest populations in Europe (2.0%), Australasia (1.6%), and Northeast Asia (0.9%). "[294], Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. HarperCollins, 2009, p.15,93. [451][452] According to Anne Elizabeth Wynn of The Statesman, "The two most recent American Religious Identification Surveys declare Wicca, one form of paganism, as the fastest growing spiritual identification in America". [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. In 2010, the median age of Muslims throughout Europe was (32), eight years younger than the median for all Europeans (40). In fact, a solid 55 percent of those who leave Islam stop identifying with a religion at all. [82] According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, around 9% of Latin Americans were raised as Protestant, but nearly 19% now identify themselves as Protestants. Abu Bakr (+1) 202-419-4372 | Media Inquiries. If you believe in the evil eye, you may want to take some steps to protect yourself from this curse. Kalmykia is the only Buddhist majority region in Europe. One-fifth of the U.S. public and a third of adults under 30 are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling. That means 3 of every 4 people leaving Islam go to something other than Christianity. [318] With 3.1 children per woman, Muslims have higher fertility levels than the world's overall population between 2010 and 2015. [448] (See the geographic distribution of atheism. [88] According to scholar Michael Nai-Chiu Poon of University of Toronto conversion to Christianity is increasing among Chinese Singaporeans. [312] According to The Huffington Post, "observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually. (Ms Lewthwaite reportedly had a close relationship with Muslim neighbours during her youth.) By 2030 Muslims are projected to represent about 26.4% of the global population (out of a total of 7.9billion people). By. Many Moriscos were suspected of practicing Islam in secret . [30], Buddhism is the majority and state religion in six countries: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Bhutan and Laos. [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. [3] In 1990, 1.1billion people were Muslims, while in 2010, 1.6billion people were Muslims. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, over the next four decades the number of Buddhists around the world is expected to decrease from 487 million in 2010 to 486 million in 2050. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax [461] The religiously unaffiliated are stationed largely in the Asia-Pacific region, where 76% resided in that region in 2010, and is expected to be 68% by 2050. Unless you are from a totalitarian country like China where the religion is intentionally put down. When the kingdom fell to Islamic influences and Brawijaya V converted to Islam in 1478, Sabdapalon cursed the King. Muslims take 2.5% out of their salaries and use the funds give to the needy. 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. [202] According to scholar Ladan Boroumand "Iran today is witnessing the highest rate of Christianization in the world",[203] and according to scholar Shay Khatiri of Johns Hopkins University "Islam is the fastest shrinking religion in there [Iran], while Christianity is growing the fastest",[204] and in 2018 "up to half a million Iranians are Christian converts from Muslim families, and most of these Christians are evangelicals",[205] and he adds "recent estimates claim that the number might have climbed up to somewhere between 1 million and 3 million". [271], According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics in 2017, the Israeli Druze population growth rate of 1.4%, which is lower than the Muslim population growth rate (2.5%) and the total population growth (1.7%), but higher than the Arab Christian population growth rate (1.0%). According to Arvind Sharma, Hinduism "is typically quite comfortable with multiple religious participation, multiple religious affiliations, and even with multiple religious identities. "Five Centuries After Reformation, Catholic-Protestant Divide in Western Europe Has Faded," Pew Research Center, 31 August 2017, 5/11, Garrison, David; 2014; "A Wind in the House of Islam: How God Is Drawing Muslims Around The World To Faith in Jesus Christ"; WIGTake Resources. While all these deaths are not attributable to ISIS alone, ISIS is . [1][2] 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA [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". If Islam would be dying then the mosques would not be getting more full with every coming year but the trend would be an opposite: mosques would get . [308] Many converts to Islam said that they suffered from hostility from their families after converting. [500][492], India has the world's largest Zoroastrian population who are called Parsis. [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.