[26], The largest net gains for the religiously unaffiliated between 2010 and 2050 are expected in North America (+26 million), Europe (+24 million), Latin America (+6 million), and the Asia-Pacific region (4 million). Uwe Siemon-Netto confirmed in 2016 that "a global phenomenon is underway: Muslims are converting to various Christian denominations in droves in every part of the world." Indeed, Christian. By 2030 Muslims are projected to represent about 26.4% of the global population (out of a total of 7.9billion people). Australian Bureau of Statistics (21 June 2012). [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. "[453], A similar pattern has been found in other countries such as Australia, Canada, and Mexico. The estimated world's Sikh population was over 30 million in 2020, and it will reach 42million by 2050. [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%). [270], Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world. [349] The prospect of a homogenous Muslim community per se, or a Muslim majority in Europe is however out of the question. [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. [247] According to a report by the Singapore Management University, more people in Southeast Asia are converting to Christianity, and these new converts are mostly Chinese business managers. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. [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. Likewise, certain states, such asNew Jersey, are home to two or three times as many Muslim adults per capita as the national average. For example, federal legislation prohibits and criminalizes non-Muslims for preaching or converting Muslims into their religion, even though the reverse is allowed. [95][96][97], In 1900, there were only 8.7million[47] adherents of Christianity in Africa, while in 2010 there were 390 million. [4][5][6] It is projected that birth rates rather than conversion will prove the main factor in the growth of any given religion. [40] This shows a significant growth from the 300400million people practicing Chinese traditional religion that were estimated in the 1990s and early 2000s. Toleransi yang mengundang murka Allah It is completely reasonable to assume that the overall Muslim population in Europe will increase, and Muslim citizens have and will have a significant impact on European life. 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. [505] A slower birthrate than deathrate accounts for the rest: as of 2001, Parsis over the age of 60 make up for 31% of the community. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity. [225] According to the same study Christianity is expected to lose a net of 66 million adherents (40 million converts versus 106 million apostate) mostly to religiously unaffiliated category between 2010 and 2050, it is also expected that Christianity may have the largest net loses in terms of religious conversion. Besides, Christianity has grown enormously in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. 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. 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. [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. [47] In Nigeria, the percentage of Christians has grown from 21.4%, in 1953, to 50.8%, in 2010. The demographic disparity between the religious, growing global South and the aging, secular global North will peak around 2050. Studies in the 21st century suggest that, in terms of percentage and worldwide spread,[1][2] Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in the world. When asked to specify why they became Muslim, converts give a variety of reasons. Although they purchased some toleration by paying the jizya (poll tax), not abolished until 1882, they were treated as an inferior race, had to wear distinctive garb, and were not allowed to ride horses or bear arms. 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. ", "Sikhs fastest-growing minority in NZ: Census", "There could be more Sikhs in the future maybe", "Our year-long exploration of religions ends with Unitarianian Universalism and paganism", "PRLog (Press Release) "Wicca"- The Fastest Growing Belief System in the World Today! Officially, Arab states have major Muslim populations, varying from around 60% in Lebanon to almost 100% in Jordan or Saudi Arabia. [396], The overall growth rate of Jews in Israel is 1.7% annually. [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. But what does Hajj constitute and why is it so. [519] The database groups adherents into 18 broadly-defined categories: Agnostics, Atheists,[c] Bahs, Buddhists, Chinese folk-religionists, Christians, Confucianists, Daoists, Ethnoreligionists, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Muslims, New Religionists, Shintoists, Sikhs, Spiritists, and Zoroastrians. [498] Recent estimates place the current number of Zoroastrians at around 110,000120,000,[499] at most with the majority living in India, Iran, and North America; their number has been thought to be declining. [321] While decline of Muslim birth rates in coming years have also been well documented. 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. [93] Professor Aris Ananta reported in 2008 that "anecdotal evidence suggests that more Buddhist Chinese have become Christians as they increased their standards of education, because Christianity, unlike Buddhism, is often associated with 'modernity' and Western education", although there are no stats to support this. [220][221][222] Churches in Europe say that there is an increase in the number of Muslims converting to Christianity among immigrants. Plattner, Marc F. and Costopoulos, Philip J. It stated that, "Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world",[315][316] and stated that, "It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer". [308] According to a report by CNN, "Islam has drawn converts from all walks of life, most notably African-Americans". How many Muslims leave Islam in India? Naresh Mitra / TNN / Jan 11, 2016, 03:10 IST. [118] Many Muslims who convert to Christianity face social and governmental persecution. [362][363], According to Rodney Stark, Islam was spread after military conquests after Arab armies began overtaking Christian regions from Syria to North Africa and Spain,[364] as well as Zoroastrian, Buddhist and Hindu regions in Central Asia, parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia via military invasions,[365][366][367] traders and Sufi missionaries. Wealthy Neighborhoods Saw the Most People Leave Every borough experienced a spike in people moving out last year, but Manhattan saw the . 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. 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. [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). Clerics are now expressing their concern about people, particularly youngsters, leaving the fold of Islam. the survey was based on 50,000 respondents with 90% of those surveyed living in Iran. 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[385] However, the poll tax known as Jizyah may have played a part in converting people over to Islam but as Britannica notes "The rate of taxation and methods of collection varied greatly from province to province and were greatly influenced by local pre-Islamic customs" and there were even cases when Muslims had the tax levied against them, on top of Zakat. [282] According to Pew Research Center 99% of Hindus lived in the Indo-Pacific region in 2010. [360] In North America, it will grow 1% to 2%. Recent political debates over Muslim immigration and related issues have prompted many people to ask how many Muslims actually live in the United States. [60] Evangelical Christian denominations also are among the fastest-growing denominations in some Catholic Christian countries, such as Brazil and France (France going from 2% to 3% of the population). [438] Bah' sources state "more than five million" Bah's in 1991-2. (+1) 202-419-4300 | Main [353][354][355][356][357], In 2010 Asia was home for (62%) of the world's Muslims, and about (20%) of the world's Muslims lived in the Middle East and North Africa, (16%) in Sub Saharan Africa, and 2% in Europe. "The majority of ex-Muslims I interviewed said they were profoundly lonely and isolated, and they related. [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. Those in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nations and in the U.S. and Canada equally cite. ", "Hundreds of asylum seekers in Finland converting from Islam to Christianity", "German churches see rise in baptisms for refugees", "Shklzen ou Giannis? Sign up now! [51], By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3billion. [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. replacement level. [227] Large increases in the developing world (around 23,000 per day) have been accompanied by substantial declines in the developed world, mainly in Western Europe and North America. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax [455] According to INEGI, in Mexico, the number of atheists grows annually by 5.2%, while the number of Catholics grows by 1.7%. And roughly one-in-five (19%) volunteered that they had no religion before converting to Islam, while smaller shares switched from Orthodox Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism or some other religion. Kimberly Winston. 270 pp. [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". 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". Researchers polled mosques in London to try to calculate how many conversions take place a year. [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. Some faiths grow exponentially at first (especially, for example, along trade routes[27] Arabs did not sack the city, and the Arab soldiers were apparently kept in tight control by their leaders. [279] Syria is home to the largest Druzite community in the world, according to a study published by Columbia University, the number of Syrian Druze increased from 684,000 in 2010 to 730,000 in mid of 2018. [19][20][21][22][23], Statistical data on conversion to and from Islam are scarce. And only two western European countries France and Belgium will become around 10 percent Muslim, by 2030. : 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. [398], There is also a trend of Orthodox movements reaching out to secular Jews in order to give them a stronger Jewish identity so there is less chance of intermarriage. Most of the net growth in the numbers of Christians is in Africa, Latin America and Asia. "[294], Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia have very low fertility and rapidly aging populations. The Sensitive Stuff HarperCollins, New York, 2008, p. 118-119, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Bromiley ed, VI p 742. [340] Islam is widely considered as the fastest growing religion in Europe due primarily to immigration and above average birth rates. [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". [426] However, the growth has not been even. [50] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Christianity (1.38%) is one of the six fastest-growing religions in the world, with high birth rates and conversions in the global South were being cited as the major reasons of the Christian population growth. In the year 610 a 40 year old illiterate trader in the deserts of Arabia received a revelation that would change the world. 6 million of those converts came from Indonesia however the report also includes the descendants of those who converted in Indonesia as well. [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. [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. At the same time, our projections suggest that the U.S. Muslim population will grow much faster than the countrys Jewish population. [445] In addition, there are examples where the adherents have their highest density among minorities in societies who face their own challenges. And many people who left last year are coming back too. [38], As of around 2020, there were about 8 million Bah's in the 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. [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. [446][447], In terms of absolute numbers, irreligion appears to be increasing (along with secularization generally). [320] As per U.N.'s global population forecasts, as well as the (1927-2011) | History of Missiology", "Dr. Todd M. 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[81] According to scholar Terence Chong, since 1980s Protestantism is expanding in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and South Korea. [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. [52] Christians have 2.7 children per woman, which is above replacement level (2.1). (+1) 202-419-4372 | Media Inquiries. Changement de prnom et stratgies identitaires, entre culture d'origine et migration [Shklzen or Giannis? [47] From 2015 to 2016, Africa saw an increase of more than 6,265,000 Catholics. [313] Experts say that conversions to Islam have doubled in the past 25 years in France, among the six million Muslims in France, about 100,000 are converts. [110], The 19th century saw at least 250,000 Jews convert to Christianity according to existing records of various societies. The same 2017 survey asked converts from Islam to explain, in their own words, their reasons for leaving the faith. "God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades". [281] Hindus made up about 15% of the world's population in 2010. [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. A correction has been made to table asy_07b (asylum seekers in receipt of support) in the publication 'Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2019'. 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. [113] According to a 2012 study, 17% of Jews in Russia identify themselves as Christians. [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. Jay Diamond, Larry. [250] According to scholar Todd Hartch of Eastern Kentucky University, by 2005, around 6 million Africans converted to Christianity annually. According to the 2011 Census of India, there are 57,264 Parsis in India. Muslims that seek to renounce Islam face legal obstacles, societal push-back, and harsh penalties. The curse is said to cause misfortune or harm to the person that it is directed at. Fertility Declining in the Middle East and North Africa, Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran, Demographic implosion in Muslim societies, "Book excerpt: The 'Muslim tide' that wasn't", "Center wins NEH grant to study Salafism", "Uproar in Germany Over Salafi Drive to Hand Out Millions of Qurans", "Arab Invasions: The First Islamic Empire | History Today", "BBC - Religions - Islam: Early rise of Islam (632-700)", "BBC World Service | The Story of Africa", "Blent zdemir - Political Use of Conversion in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Context: Some Cases From Salonica", "The Rights of Non-Muslims in Islam (part 1 of 13): An Islamic Basis". [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. 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. [295][296] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as of 2007 estimated that the fastest-growing religion of the world to be Islam (1.84%), high birth rates in as the reason for the growths. [506] Concerns have been raised in recent years over the rapidly declining population of the Parsi community in India.
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