MOSLEM POPULATION GROWTH…TWICE AS FAST AS NON MUSLIMS….
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THE world’s Muslim population will grow twice as fast as the non-Muslim
population in the next 20 years, when Muslims are expected to make up more
than a quarter of the global population, a study published Thursday
predicts.
Using fertility, mortality and migration rates, researchers at the Pew Forum
on Religion and Public Life project a 1.5-percent annual population growth
rate for the world’s Muslims over the next two decades, and just 0.7 percent
growth each year for non-Muslims.
The study, called “The Future of the Global Muslim Population,” projects
that in 2030 Muslims will make up 26.4 percent of the world’s population,
which is expected to total around 8.3 billion people by then.
That marks a three-percentage-point rise from the 23.4-percent share held by
Muslims of the globe’s estimated 6.9 billion people today, the study says.
More than six in 10 followers of Islam will live in the Asia-Pacific region
in 2030, and nuclear Pakistan, which has seen a rise in radical Islam in
recent months, will overtake Indonesia as the world’s most populous Muslim
nation.
In Africa, the Muslim population of the sub-Saharan country of Nigeria will
be greater than that of Egypt in 20 years, the study projects.
And in Europe, Pew predicts the Muslim population will grow by nearly a
third in 20 years, from 44.1 million people, or six percent of the region’s
inhabitants in 2010, to 58.2 million or eight percent of the projected total
population by 2030.
Some European Union (EU) countries will see double-digit percentages of
Muslims in their population by 2030: Belgium’s Muslim population is
projected to rise from six percent to 10.2 percent over the next 20 years,
while France’s is expected to hit 10.3 percent in 2030, up from 7.5 percent
today.
In Sweden, Pew predicts Muslims will comprise nearly 10 percent of the
population compared to less than five percent today.
Britain’s Muslim population is predicted to rise from 4.6 percent to 8.2
percent by 2030, and 9.3 percent of the population of Austria is forecast to
be Muslim by then, compared to less than six percent of residents of the
alpine country now.
Russia, which is not a member of the EU, will continue to have the largest
Muslim population in absolute terms in Europe in 2030, with 18.6 million
Muslims or 14.4 percent of the total population of the vast country.
The United States, meanwhile, is projected to have a larger absolute number
of Muslims by 2030 than any European countries other than Russia and France,
but proportionally, Muslims will make up a much smaller percentage of the
population of the United States than they do in Europe.
The Muslim share of the US population is projected to grow from its current
level of less than one percent to 1.7 percent by 2030, making Muslims
“roughly as numerous as Jews or Episcopalians are in the United States,” the
study says.
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