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A Religious Forecast For 2050: Atheism Is Down, Islam Is Rising

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A Religious Forecast For 2050: Atheism Is Down, Islam Is Rising

Updated December 25, 2015 7:37 AM ET
Published December 25, 2015 7:00 AM ET

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By the end of the century, Muslims could outnumber Christians for the first time in history, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center.

"Another way of thinking about it is Christianity had a seven-century head-start on Islam, and Islam is finally catching up," says Alan Cooperman, the director of religion research at Pew.

Christianity is currently the world's largest religion, making up a third of the world's population with 2.2 billion adherents. Pew research shows that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. The religious group will make up 30 percent of the world's population by 2050, compared to just 23 percent of the population in 2010. That means the number of Muslims in the world will nearly equal the number of Christians by 2050.

If Islam's growth spurt continues, Pew data shows, Muslims could outnumber Christians soon after the year 2070.

That's not to say that the total number of Christians is decreasing; Christianity's growth rate is just not as fast as Islam's. While the number of Christians will increase from about 2.1 billion to 2.9 billion by 2050, Muslims will jump from 1.6 billion to 2.8 billion.

This growth has to do with the relatively young age of the Muslim population as well as high fertility rates. Other religious groups have aging populations. Among Buddhists, for example, half of adherents are older than 30 and​ the average birth rate is 1.6 children. By contrast, in 2010, a third of the Muslim population was under 15. What's more, each Muslim woman has an average of 3.1 children, while the average for Christian women is 2.7.

The Pew research revealed two other interesting shifts in world religious perspectives, Cooperman says.

Atheists, agnostics and those who do not affiliate with religion will make up a smaller percentage of the world's total population by 2050 — even though the group is growing in the U.S. and Europe. The decline is primarily because those who are unaffiliated religiously have low fertility rates, with women bearing an average of 1.7 children in their lifetime.

Between now and 2050, the hub of Christianity will also shift — from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa. As of 2010, the majority of the Christian population — 25.5 percent — lived in Europe, but sub-Saharan Africa will become home to nearly 40 percent of the world's Christians by 2050. Fertility rates are also behind this change. Christians living in sub-Saharan African have the highest fertility rates among Christians worldwide: Each woman has, on average, 4.4 children.​

Cooperman emphasizes that a lot could change between now and 2050.

"We're not saying that this will happen; it's if current patterns and trends continue," Cooperman says. "We do not know what's going to happen in the future. There could be war, revolution, famine, disease. These are things no one can predict and that could change the numbers."

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Very good data. but id like to point out that some African countries like Kenya & Nigeria have a large non religious population. Kenya for example has a 2.4% of the population who are non religious. That is a small percentage but if you look at the population of Kenya you will see how big the number is.

46 Million people live in Kenya in 2015. 2.4% are non religious so there are 1.1 million non religious people in Kenya.

Kenya is growing very fast in population and by 2050 it will have a population of 100 million people.

the percentage of non religious maybe will increase or reduce but if we imagine it's gonna stay 2.4% then that makes the non religious population double into 2.4 million.

Here is what might actually happen though. The Áfricans are gonna be more educated and informed and they'll realize that the religion was forced onto them by the white colonialists and are gonna abandon christianity by the millions maybe joining Islam or traditional African beliefs but most likely just become non religious the way Japanese are non religious.

so the Non religious population will definitely not come from only the west and it definitely won't be small.
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They still get handed to them by 10 million Jews.

They might be big artificial number but they remain useless and third world citizens to planet earth no wonder so many of them wanna take the shortcut-----suicide.

Instead of counting heads count the institutions, the noble rulers, the unity advocates not tribal entities that promote their tribal doctrines under Islam.

It is there that counts.
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true.

The prophecy have been fulfilled

hawdan (RAT) narrated "Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘Imminently, there will come a time when the nations gather against you, just as people gather around a feast.’ A man said, ‘Will it be because we are few at that time, O Allah’s Messenger?’ He responded, ‘No, you will be numerous in those times, but you will be as useless as the scum of the sea, and Allah will remove the fear that your enemies used to posses from you from their chests, and He will place al-Wahn in your hearts’, it was said, ‘What is al-Wahn?’, he responded, ‘Love of life, and hatred of death.’” [Ahmad, Abu Dawud]
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AwRastaale wrote:They still get handed to them by 10 million Jews.

They might be big artificial number but they remain useless and third world citizens to planet earth no wonder so many of them wanna take the shortcut-----suicide.

Instead of counting heads count the institutions, the noble rulers, the unity advocates not tribal entities that promote their tribal doctrines under Islam.

It is there that counts.

There are at least 818 million people in Europe and America ( 508 millions in EU and 310 millions in America). Out of these 818 million people, 8.5 million are Jews, where 7 millions of them live in America and the other 1.5 million live in EU. That puts the number of Jews in America and EU as 1% of the total population.

Yet, every aspect of European and American life is controlled or directed by Jews. Forget about Hollywood, media, finance, or lobby groups; just look at the school boards in your area, city planners, or the number of professors in Academia. You will be hard pressed to find any other ethnic group who can overtake Jews in these professions.

Truth is, Khazar Jews have qualities that is quite rare in other human beings. According to some of the Islamic scholars, the Gog and Magog that were mentioned in the Noble Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) are the Khazar Jews.

We've also been told it is these powers that they will use to oppress mankind (or humankind to be gender correct), and on the world of Islam in particular, and it is this arrogance that will ultimately bring their demise through a divine intervention.

Bottom line, why some of the Muslims are being tribal have no bearings on the Khazar Jews and why they are on the echelons of power on every major military, financial, media, academia, and political institutions in the world. There are things which are beyond our control, and as Muslims just need to do our best and understand that Allah will take care of the rest.
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Funniest thing is most Muslims are secretly atheist :lol:
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Renis wrote:Funniest thing is most Muslims are secretly atheist :lol:
That is the biggest hogwash that anyone has ever stated in these pages.
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Renis wrote:Funniest thing is most Muslims are secretly atheist :lol:
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:roll: gegi the problem with u is--u equate Islam and Terrorism. Islam is not Isis. Just to let you know. :eat:
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Basra- wrote::roll: gegi the problem with u is--u equate Islam and Terrorism. Islam is not Isis. Just to let you know. :eat:
I've never done it. It is only in your head, you old habar Basra dhuusaweyn. :lol:

I am a believer that there would never have been ISIS had America, UK, and Australia not invaded Iraq. Do you agree with me, you old habar Basra dhuusaweeyn?


Btw, are you and QaxootiWaaxid the same person?
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Renis wrote:Funniest thing is most Muslims are secretly atheist :lol:
Yup. And with your amazingly twisted logic, why stop there? Let's continue shall we? Most atheists are secretly Christian, and most Christians are secretly Muslim. Let's not forget, most Caucasians are secretly Bantu, and most Mongoloids are secretly Negroid.
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Kareem99 wrote:
Renis wrote:Funniest thing is most Muslims are secretly atheist :lol:
Yup. And with your amazingly twisted logic, why stop there? Let's continue shall we? Most atheists are secretly Christian, and most Christians are secretly Muslim. Let's not forget, most Caucasians are secretly Bantu, and most Mongoloids are secretly Negroid.
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Salaan sare Gegiroor, you post some intriguing and informative articles saaxib. I hope you and reerka are doing good.
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Kareem99 wrote:Salaan sare Gegiroor, you post some intriguing and informative articles saaxib. I hope you and reerka are doing good.
Waa ka qaaday salaanta brother Kareem99. Yeah, my family and I are doing great. Insha'Allah, everything is good on your end as well.
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