Friday, 3 April 2015

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Muslims will soon outnumber Christians worldwide


Muslims will soon outnumber Christians worldwide
Thousands of Muslims gather at the Grand Mosque in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca (Picture: Getty Images)
Islam will equal Christianity’s share of the global population at 32 per cent by 2070, according to new research.
This same analysis concludes that by 2100, Islam will become the most followed religion across the world.
The Muslim community is thought to increase at double the rate of the world’s population, which in turn is expected to grow by 35% over the next 40 years.
The Pew Research Center’s report said: ‘Religions with many adherents in developing countries – where birth rates are high and infant mortality rates generally have been falling – are likely to grow quickly.
Muslims will soon outnumber Christians worldwide
Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Picture: Getty Images)
‘Much of the worldwide growth of Islam and Christianity, for example, is expected to take place in sub-Saharan Africa.’
By 2050, current trends show that less than 50 per cent of the populations of the UK, Australia, France and the Netherlands will be Christian.
The global number of atheists and agnostics is believed to actually decline over the next four decades from 16 to 13 per cent.
Buddhism will also suffer a decline over the same time period by 0.3 per cent.

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