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The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
The Muslim population in the United States has increased vastly since 1950, with growth driven by both conversion as well as immigration. [28] The conversion to Islam of most converts in North America can be attributed to several distinct, yet symbiotic, missionary activities.
South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. [22] [23] [24] Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million ...
Muslim population growth is the worldwide growth of adherents of the religion of Islam through religious conversion and reproduction in Muslim communities. Between 2015 and 2060, Muslim population is projected to increase by 70%, from 1.76 billion to 3 billion. [1] This compares with the 32% growth of world population during the same period. [2]
With about 1.8 billion followers (2015), almost a quarter of earth's population, [111] Islam is the second-largest and the fastest-growing religion in the world, [112] primarily due to the young age and high fertility rate of Muslims, [113] with Muslims having a rate of (3.1) compared to the world average of (2.5).
Most estimates indicate China has approximately 20 to 30 million Muslims (1.5% to 2% of the population). [309] [310] Islam in Europe is the second-largest religion after Christianity in many countries, with growth rates due primarily to immigration and higher birth rates of Muslims in 2005, [311] accounting for 4.9% of all of Europe's ...
India's Muslim population is the world's largest Muslim-minority population in the world (11% of the world's Muslim population). [196] Jones (2005) defines a "large minority" as being between 30% and 50%, which described nine countries in 2000, namely Eritrea , Ethiopia , Guinea-Bissau , Ivory Coast , Nigeria , North Macedonia , and Tanzania ...
The study also reveals that, due to young age & relatively high fertility rate among Muslims by 2050 there will be near parity between Muslims (2.8 billion, or 30% of the population) and Christians (2.9 billion, or 31%), possibly for the first time in history. [332]