[336][337][b] 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. At . Although some national censuses ask people about their religion, they do not ask if they have converted to their presently espoused faith. New Delhi: "I have hated Muslims most of my life and today I proudly call myself one," says Siddharth, who assumed the name Shadab when he converted to Islam in 2012. The share of the global unaffiliated population living in Europe is projected to grow from 12% in 2010 to 13% in 2050. [111] Data from the Pew Research Center has it that, as of 2013, about 1.6million adult American Jews identify themselves as Christians, most as Protestants. Some faiths grow exponentially at first (especially, for example, along trade routes[27] To many Muslims, it may be the word of God, but in thinking this, they deny the fact that faith is a lived experience and the faith that they follow has been shaped by human lives who have gone before. [332], Generally, there are few reports about how many people leave Islam in Muslim majority countries. Seeing Your Alive Mother Dying in your dream may also signify premonition, isolation or trust issues from people. 270 pp. [303][304] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the World Christian Database as of 2007 has Islam as the fastest-growing religion in the world. The majority of Buddhists live in Asia; Europe and North America also have populations exceeding 1 million. [322][323] According to David Ignatius, there is major decline in Muslim fertility rates as pointed out by Nicholas Eberstadt. [324], According to the religious forecast for 2050 by Pew Research Center, between 2010 and 2050 modest net gains through religious conversion are expected for Muslims (3million)[326] and most of the net gains through religious conversion for Muslims found in Sub Saharan Africa (2.9million). [506] Concerns have been raised in recent years over the rapidly declining population of the Parsi community in India. 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. [494] Zoroastrianism declined as forced conversion increased with the rise of Islam. [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. [504] One-fifth of the decrease in population is attributed to migration. Statistics commonly measure the absolute number of adherents, the percentage of the absolute growth per-year, and the growth of converts in the world. In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, between 1965 and 1985 about 2.5million Indonesians converted from Islam to Christianity. [306][335] Equally, Darren E. Sherkat questioned in Foreign Affairs whether some of the Muslim growth projections are accurate as they do not take into account the increasing number of non-religious Muslims. [101] The main growth areas have been Asia and Africa, 39% and 32%, respectively, since 2000. Clerics are now expressing their concern about people, particularly youngsters, leaving the fold of Islam. [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. Buddhism is the majority religion in nine countries: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan, Mongolia, Japan and Singapore. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax The Sensitive Stuff 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. "The Lost History of Christianity." The WRD is edited by demographers Todd M. Johnson[520] and Brian J. [45], According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there are 2.2billion Christians around the world in 2010,[47] up from about 600 million in 1910. If you believe in the evil eye, you may want to take some steps to protect yourself from this curse. [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. Since the countries' religious establishments also serve as. See also "Merely speaking of a 'Muslim community in France' can be misleading and inaccurate: like every immigrant population, Muslims in France exhibit strong cleavages based on the country of their origin, their social background, political orientation and ideology, and the, Stark, Rodney. Look at who is 'going forth and multiplying', FAQ from Adherents.com describing why it is difficult to measure the fastest-growing religion, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Growth_of_religion&oldid=1141030901, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 00:39. [344], The Pew Research Center notes that "the data that we have isn't pointing in the direction of 'Eurabia' at all",[345] and predicts that the percentage of Muslims is estimated to rise to 8% in 2030, due to immigration and above-average birth rates. But coming up with an answer is not easy, in part because the U.S. Census Bureau does not ask questions about religion, meaning there is no official government count of the U.S. Muslim population. [17][18] According to Pulitzer Center 35,000 people become Pentecostal or "Born again" every day. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. This scenario (Chinese scenario) is based primarily on sensitivity tests.[26]. [433][434][435][436] Meanwhile in other times or places the religion has experienced surges in growth. [38], As of around 2020, there were about 8 million Bah's in the world. [1] According to them, there was a fast annual growth of Buddhism in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and several Western European countries (19102010). Growth of religion involves the spread of individual religions and the increase in the numbers of religious adherents around the world. They were sometimes effectively unable to prevent conversion but they were certainly not going to use force to achieve it. only for their zeal to wane (note the flagging case of Zoroastrianism). Researchers polled mosques in London to try to calculate how many conversions take place a year. "People died in my . [338], By 2010 an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), up from 4.1% in 1990. [482] In contrast to the religion's slowing growth in India, Sikhism is the fastest growing religion in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. [334] 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. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. Unless you are from a totalitarian country like China where the religion is intentionally put down. Comparing its amount to the obligatory zakah which an ex-dhimmi should give to the Muslim state in case he converts to Islam dismisses the claim that its aim was forced conversions to Islam. April 1, 2021, 8:23pm. About a quarter say they preferred the beliefs or teachings of Islam to those of their prior religion, while 21% say they read religious texts or studied Islam before making the decision to switch. [67] That caused Protestantism to be called a primarily non-Western religion. [321] While decline of Muslim birth rates in coming years have also been well documented. [500][492], India has the world's largest Zoroastrian population who are called Parsis. [320] Globally, Muslims were younger (median age of 23) than the overall population (median age of 28) as of 2010. [40] This shows a significant growth from the 300400million people practicing Chinese traditional religion that were estimated in the 1990s and early 2000s. [350] Eric Kaufman of University of London denied the claims of Eurabia. For example, individuals can receive a capital punishment if they openly leave Islam in some Muslim countries. [46], The Chinese folk religion is a "diffused religion" rather than "institutional". [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%). 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. 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. [63][64][65][66] Since 1900, due primarily to conversion, Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. Since the 1980s, with the gradual opening of society, folk religion has begun to recover. 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[45] It is a meaning system of social solidarity and identity, ranging from the kinship systems to the community, the state, and the economy, that serves to integrate Chinese culture. More than 100 people gathered Thursday at a vigil in Arlington to honor the bald eagle, named MK, who was found struggling in a town cemetery on . [340] According to a religious forecast for 2050 by Pew Research Center conversion does not add significantly to the growth of the Muslim population in Europe,[343] according to the same study the net loss is (60,000) due to religious switching. [43] Moreover, Chinese religion has also spread throughout the world following the emigration of Chinese populations, with 672,000 adherents in Canada as of 2010. ", "Losing their religion: the hidden crisis of faith among Britain's young Muslims", "Losing Their Religion: When Muslim Immigrants Leave Islam", "Iranians have lost their faith according to survey", " ", "5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe", "The Future of the Global Muslim Population - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life", World Muslim population doubling, report projects, Fewer differences between foreign-born and Swedish born childbearing women. At the same time, our projections suggest that the U.S. Muslim population will grow much faster than the countrys Jewish population. [272][273] Even though the faith originally developed out of Ismaili Islam, Druze does not identify as a branch of Islam. Atheism and agnosticism are not typically considered religions, but data about the prevalence of. [312] According to The Huffington Post, "observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually. [307] According to an earlier 2001 census, surveys found that there was an increase of 60,000 conversions to Islam in the United Kingdom. [327] While both religions will grow but Muslim population will exceed the Christian population and by 2100, Muslim population (35%) will be 1% more than the Christian population (34%). Looking at suicide as a share of total death is one way to compare differences across the world. [95][96][97], In 1900, there were only 8.7million[47] adherents of Christianity in Africa, while in 2010 there were 390 million. [387], Today, the majority of the world's Jewish population is concentrated in two countries, the United States and Israel,[389] in 2013, the United States and Israel were collectively home to more than 80percent of the global Jewish population, each country having approximately 41percent of the world's Jews. Jay Diamond, Larry. 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, . [24][25][26], Some religions proselytise vigorously (Christianity and Islam, for example), while others (such as Judaism and Sikhism) do not generally encourage conversions into their ranks. [248] According to scholar Wang Zuoa, 500,000 Chinese converts to Protestantism annually. [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. [459] The decline is largely due to the advanced age (median age of 34) and low fertility among unaffiliated or Nonreligious (1.7 children per woman in the 20102015 period). Christianity is expected to lose a net of 66 million adherents mostly to religiously unaffiliated, while religiously unaffiliated are expected to gain 61 million adherents. According to other scholars, many converted for a whole host of reasons, the main statement of which was evangelization by Muslims, though there were several instances where some were pressured to convert owing to internal violence and friction between the Christian and Muslim communities, according to historian Philip Jenkins. [38], According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Hinduism (1.52%) is one of the six fastest-growing religions in the world, with high birth rates in India being cited as the major reasons of the Hindu population growth. For example, it became gradually . The number of officers leaving the police, in each of the last five years, is shown in Table 4.1 by reason for departure. Pew Research projections, over time fertility rates generally converge toward the [384] In a 2008 conference on religion at Yale University's The MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society which hosted a speech from Hugh Kennedy, he stated forced conversions played little part in the history of the spread of the faith. The Muslim population in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to reach nearly 1.5billion by 2050, up from roughly 1billion in 2010. 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. [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%). [285][286] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 109 million babies were born to Hindu mothers and roughly 42 million Hindus died, meaning that the natural increase in the Hindus population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 67 million over this period". Some seven years later, Muhammad and his many followers returned to Mecca and conquered the region. [336] The poll, conducted by the Netherlands-based GAMAAN (Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran), using online polling to provide greater anonymity for respondents, surveyed 50,000 Iranians and found 32% identified as Shia, 5% as Sunni and 3% as Sufi Muslim. [439] However, since around 2001 the Universal House of Justice has prioritized statistics of the community by their levels of activity rather than simply their population of avowed adherents or numbers of local assemblies. Shortly after al-Qaida terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, many Muslims, as well as other Arab . About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. [47] In South Africa, Pentecostalism has grown from 0.2%, in 1951, to 7.6%, in 2001. or for reasons of social prestige[28]), Since the year 2000, the Israeli Druze community has witnessed a significant decrease in fertility-rate and a significant increase in life expectancy. A total of 144 persons adopted Islam. 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. 2010 Chinese Jesus Life Survey conducted by Dr. Yang Fenggang, Purdue University's Center on Religion and Chinese Society. 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. 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? [49] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, by 2060 Christians will remain the world's largest religion; and the number of Christians will reach 3.05billion (or 31.8%). By 2011, the number of Muslims had grown to 2.75 million (including 1.8 million adults). [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. [375][376][377] (such as Christians under the Ottoman Empire's authority,[378][379] Hindus and Buddhists under regime of Muslim invaders,[369] Coptic Christians under administration of the Muslim Arabs,[372] Zoroastrians living under Islamic rule in ancient Persia,[380] and also with Jewish communities in the medieval Arab world[374]) while some scholars indicate that some Muslim rulers in India did not consistently collect the jizya (poll tax) from Dhimmis. [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. On the other hand, the fertility rate in Europe as a whole was (1.6). 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. When the kingdom fell to Islamic influences and Brawijaya V converted to Islam in 1478, Sabdapalon cursed the King. ", most of them are women and African-Americans. According to Justin Vasse the fertility rate of Muslim immigrants declines with integration. [348] Fewer identify as Christian (22%), and an additional one-in-five (21%) identify with a wide variety of smaller groups, including faiths such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, or as generally spiritual.. [421] From having roughly 200,000 Bahs in 1950,[422] the religion grew to having over 4 million by the late 1980s, with a widespread international distribution. Ellethy 2014, p. 181. 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. Religion remains one of modern Malaysia's most sensitive topics, especially when it comes to Islam, the country's official faith . [400], Rates of interreligious marriage vary widely: In the United States, it is just under 50percent,[401] in the United Kingdom, around 53percent; in France; around 30percent,[402] and in Australia and Mexico, as low as 10percent. Ten years ago, Muhammad Syed became an ex-Muslim. The dream reflects your lonely state of mind or fear of trusting people around you. Famed new believers like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Keith Ellison seem to get all the attentionalong with flamboyant.

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