[38], As of around 2020, there were about 8 million Bah's in 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%). The WRD is edited by demographers Todd M. Johnson[520] and Brian J. [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). [298] According to the same study "globally, Muslims have the highest fertility rate, an average of 3.1 children per woman well above replacement level (2.1)", and "in all major regions where there is a sizable Muslim population, Muslim fertility exceeds non-Muslim fertility". 55% of the Muslims who quit Islam prefer to follow no religion while 22% specifically adopt to become Christians. [282] According to Pew Research Center 99% of Hindus lived in the Indo-Pacific region in 2010. There is an ongoing silent migration away from the church of an estimated 3,500 individuals each and every day. [396], The overall growth rate of Jews in Israel is 1.7% annually. Likewise, certain states, such asNew Jersey, are home to two or three times as many Muslim adults per capita as the national average. [268], The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) survey estimated that between 1990 and 2001 the number of self-identifying deists grew from 6,000 to 49,000, representing about 0.02% of the US population at the time.[269]. ", most of them are women and African-Americans. [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. A 2014 study indicated that over 1.2 million people will leave the church in the next year. [342] Pew study also reveals that Muslims are younger than other Europeans. [30], Buddhism is the majority and state religion in six countries: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Bhutan and Laos. (+1) 202-419-4372 | Media Inquiries. In sociology, desecularization is the proliferation or growth of religion, most commonly after a period of previous secularization. Seeing Your Alive Mother Dying in your dream may also signify premonition, isolation or trust issues from people. Hispanics and African-Americans, who were already converting well before 9/11, are the most common ethnic groups to convert. 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. In 2015, the internationally recognized religion was the second-largest international religion in Iran,[413] Panama,[414] Belize,[415] Bolivia,[416] Zambia,[417] and Papua New Guinea;[418] and the third-largest in Chad,[419] and Kenya. [195], Resurgent Islam is one of the most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world. According to statistics in Canada, the number of "Nones" increased by about 60% between 1985 and 2004. [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. 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. 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. [59] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 223 million babies were born to Christian mothers and roughly 107 million Christians died, meaning that the natural increase in the Christian population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 116 million over this period". or for reasons of social prestige[28]), January 26, 2018 The share of Americans who leave Islam is offset by those who become Muslim By Besheer Mohamed and Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac Like Americans in many other religious groups, a substantial share of adults who were raised Muslim no longer identify as members of the faith. When asked to specify why they became Muslim, converts give a variety of reasons. [464] Within India, a majority of Sikhs live in the state of Punjab. [351] Eric Kaufman also argue that the main reason why Islam is expanding along with other religions, is not because of conversion to Islam, but primarily to the nature of the religion, as he calls it "pro-natal", where Muslims tend to have more children. According to Pew Research Center, in the United States, the percentage of people converting to Islam is almost the same as the people leaving Islam ( about 23%). [440][441][442], Because Bah's do not represent the majority of the population in any country,[443] and most often represent only a tiny fraction of countries' total populations,[444] there are problems of under-reporting. [83], The US Department of State estimated in 2005 that Protestants in Vietnam may have grown by 600% over the previous 10 years. [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. In India, Islam was brought by various traders and rulers from Afghanistan and other places. It's also hard to kiss. [310] According to The New York Times, an estimated 25% of American Muslims are converts,[311] these converts are mostly African American. [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. The number of officers leaving the police, in each of the last five years, is shown in Table 4.1 by reason for departure. In 200 years (from 1800-2000), the world population increased more than 6 times, but the Christian Population increased faster over the same period (over 9 times). [309] Studies estimated about 30,000 converting to Islam annually in the United States. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax Conversion To Islam One Result Of Post-9/11 Curiosity [339][341][342] Between 2010 and 2015 the Muslim fertility rate in Europe was (2.1). Do Muslims have more children than other women in western Europe? [300] According to a 2019 study by the Pew Research Center; "around the globe, Muslims have higher fertility rates than Christians on average. [26], Only in recent decades have surveys begun to measure changes in religious identity among individuals. [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. [38] in 2018 a new data from the Gordon Theological Seminary shows that, for the first time ever, more number of Christians live in Africa than on any other single continent:[58] "The results show Africa on top with 631 million Christian residents, Latin America in 2nd place with 601 million Christians, and Europe in 3rd place with 571 million Christians". [47] In Nigeria, the percentage of Christians has grown from 21.4%, in 1953, to 50.8%, in 2010. [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. The latest estimate combines informationfrom our 2017 surveyof U.S. Muslims which reported on the prevalence of Muslims among immigrants and other demographic groups withofficial Census Bureau data on the number of people in these groups. 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