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[322][323] According to David Ignatius, there is major decline in Muslim fertility rates as pointed out by Nicholas Eberstadt. [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. [450] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 68 million babies were born to religiously unaffiliated mothers and roughly 42 million religiously unaffiliated died, meaning that the natural increase in the religiously unaffiliated population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 26 million over this period". But, unlike some other faiths, Islam gains about as many converts as it loses. 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Although some national censuses ask people about their religion, they do not ask if they have converted to their presently espoused faith. Likewise, certain states, such asNew Jersey, are home to two or three times as many Muslim adults per capita as the national average. by Daniel. Sociologist Phil Zuckerman's global studies on atheism have indicated that global atheism may be in decline due to irreligious countries having the lowest birth rates in the world and religious countries having higher birth rates in general. Officially, Arab states have major Muslim populations, varying from around 60% in Lebanon to almost 100% in Jordan or Saudi Arabia. only for their zeal to wane (note the flagging case of Zoroastrianism). Indeed, while aboutone-in-fiveAmerican Muslim adults were raised in a different faith tradition and converted to Islam, a similar share of Americans who were raised Muslim nowno longer identify with the faith. [409][410] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahai (sic) was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN region. Muslims in the U.S. are not as numerous as the number of Americans who identify as Jewish by religion, according to our estimate. [297] According to the BBC, a comprehensive American study concluded in 2009 that the number of Muslims worldwide stood at about 23% of the world's population with 60% of the world's Muslims living in Asia. One striking difference between former Muslims and those who have always been Muslim is in the share who hail from Iran. In fact, about half of all converts to Islam (53%) identified as Protestant before converting; another 20% were Catholic. [237] While on the other hand, in 2017, scholars Landon Schnabel and Sean Bock at Harvard University and Indiana University argued that while "Mainline Protestant" churches has declined in the United States since the late 1980s, but many of them do not leave Christianity, but rather convert to another Christian denomination, in particularly to evangelicalism. (+1) 202-419-4300 | Main Some faiths grow exponentially at first (especially, for example, along trade routes[27] [460], According to Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, by 2050 unaffiliated or nonreligious are expected to account for 27% of North America total population (up from 17.1% as in 2010), and 23% of Europe total population (up from 18% as in 2010). Grim.[521]. [113] According to a 2012 study, 17% of Jews in Russia identify themselves as Christians. [369] Under Islamic law, Muslims are required to pay Zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam. This scenario (Chinese scenario) is based primarily on sensitivity tests. [117], According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey from the University of Melbourne, since the 1960s there has been a substantial increase in the number of conversions from Islam to Christianity, mostly to the Evangelical and Pentecostal forms. [394] Studies have shown that Haredi Jews population is rising rapidly due to the young age and very high fertility-rate,[395] especially in Israel. [338], By 2010 an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), up from 4.1% in 1990. When asked where they think tensions between the Muslim and Western worlds originate, answers vary. [198], According to scholar Rob Scott of University of Tasmania in 2010 there were "approximately 180,000 Arab Americans and about 130,000 Iranian Americans who converted from Islam to Christianity",[196] Scholar Dudley Woodberry form Fuller Theological Seminary estimated approximately that 20,000 Muslims converts to Christianity annually in the United States. [37] According to the Pew Research Center published on 2010, religious conversion may have little impact on the Buddhists population between 2010 and 2050; Buddhists are expected to lose 2.9 million adherents between 2010 and 2050. By 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the nations second-largest religious group after Christians. Religion remains one of modern Malaysia's most sensitive topics, especially when it comes to Islam, the country's official faith . The UN concluded that in the first eight months of 2014, at least 9,347 civilians had been killed and at least 17,386 wounded. [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". [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. [110], The 19th century saw at least 250,000 Jews convert to Christianity according to existing records of various societies. How many Muslims leave Islam in India? By 2030 Muslims are projected to represent about 26.4% of the global population (out of a total of 7.9billion people). As per the Pew Research study, Muslim populations will grow in absolute number in all regions of the world between 2010 and 2050. The growth of a religion can interact with factors such as persecution, entrenched rival religions (such as established religions), and religious market saturation. [406], In 1939, the core Jewish population reached its historical peak of 17 million (0.8% of the global population). When asked to specify why they became Muslim, converts give a variety of reasons. [270], Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world. [118] Many Muslims who convert to Christianity face social and governmental persecution. ", "The Zoroastrians who remained in Persia (modern Iran) after the ArabMuslim conquest (7th century CE) had a long history as outcasts. The number of Muslims will equal the number of Christians around the . [244] On the other hand, demographer Conrad Hackett of Pew Research Center stated that the World Christian Encyclopedia gives a higher estimate for percent Christian when compared to other cross-national data sets. [63][64][65][66] Since 1900, due primarily to conversion, Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. [382] Islam has also been shaped by those who leave it and this happened early on in the formation of an Islamic community in seventh century Arabia. But many people, disgusted by the role that some priests and nuns played in the killing frenzy, have shunned organized religion altogether, and many more have turned to Islam. 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). It was reported in 2013 that around 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year, with most of them being women. 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Johnson " Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs Boston University", London: A Rising Island of Religion in a Secular Sea, "The Baha'i Faith 19571988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments", Religion on the Move! [478][479] Sikhs have the lowest fertility rate amongst India's four major religious groups, at 1.6 children per woman in 2019-20. [391], Orthodox and Conservative Judaism discourage proselytism to non-Jews,[392] but many Jewish groups have tried to reach out to the assimilated Jewish communities of the Diaspora in order for them to reconnect to their Jewish roots. It's also hard to kiss. [213][214] Some scholars and media reports indicate that in the Middle East there been increasing numbers of conversions to Christianity among the Berbers,[215][216][201] Kurds,[217][218][201] Persians,[206] and Turks,[219] and among some religious minorities such as Alawites and Druze.