Like the other Abrahamic religions of Judaism and Christianity, Islam also emerged in the Middle East, a region located in Asia. “Today’s religiously unaffiliated population, by contrast, is heavily concentrated in places with low fertility and aging populations, such as Europe, North America, China and Japan,” the Pew research underlined. One factor, being ‘religiously unaffiliated’ also favours Muslim growth as most of those people do not reside in Muslim countries. “Meanwhile, religious switching – which is expected to hinder the growth of Christians by an estimated 72 million between 20 – is not expected to have a negative net impact on Muslim population growth,” the study said. There is also a conversion factor, particularly in Europe and Sub Saharan countries in Africa, where Muslim net gains - which are calculated by subtracting people who left Islam from new converts to the monotheistic religion - appear to beat the number of conversions to other religions in the projected period between 20. In the US, Muslims will amount to 2 percent of the population while it will be far less across Latin America according to forecasts. While migration is not a direct cause of population growth, due to political and economic volatility, many Muslims tend to migrate to non-Muslim majority states in Europe and the Americas, where they increase the share of Muslim populations.Īccording to Pew’s data, by 2050, nearly 10 percent of Europe will be populated by Muslims. The world’s Muslims are also the youngest population, being “seven years younger than the median age of non-Muslims,” according to the study - which means more young Muslims will replace older non-Muslims across the world.Īmirah Ahmed, 17, outside of her home in Fredericksburg, Virginia in the US, where Muslim population will also increase to 2 percent by 2050, according to Pew Research Centre. “Around the world, each Muslim woman has an average of 2.9 children, compared with 2.2 for all other groups combined,” the Pew study said, referring to seven other non-Muslim major religious groups. Mughal power in the Subcontinent collapsed in the mid-19th century while the end of the Ottomans came after World War I in the early 20th century. While Muslim populations have continued to increase across the world in the modern age, interestingly, the political power of Islamic-dominated states from the Mughals to the Ottomans, which had ruled vast swathes of subcontinental Asia, Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe gradually weakened in the 19th century. “Indeed, Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between 20 and, in the second half of this century, will likely surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group,” said another study in 2017. If it happens, for the first time in history, both faiths will have equal standing. That trend has continued into the 21st century, according to the Pew Research Center.īy 2050, “the number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world,” if current population growth trends continue, Pew found in 2015. In 1900, Christians represented 34 percent of the global population while Muslims constituted 12 percent of all faiths across the globe.īut that margin between Christian and Muslim populations dramatically changed throughout the 20th century in favour of Islam as it became the fastest growing religion across the world. Islam is not only the world’s fastest growing religion today, but it is projected to be the largest one by 2075.Ĭhristianity has been the world’s most popular Abrahamic religion since its emergence over two thousand years ago, but it will lose its place to Islam at end of the 21st century according to the Pew Research Center.Īt the beginning of the 20th century, Christianity had the largest number of followers numbering nearly 560 million while there were 200 million Muslims at the time.
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