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Growth has been especially great among Muslims and Hindus, albeit from a very low base. 1 For estimates of the size of Christian populations in more than 200 countries and territories, see the Pew Research Center’s April 2015 report "The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050."
as “just Christian” along with Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians and members of many other denominational families. The Protestant share of the population is down 4 percentage points over the last five years and has dropped 10 points in 10 years. By comparison, the Catholic share of the population, which had ticked downward
Growth of Islam & Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1900 Source: World Religion Database. Historical data draw on government records, historical atlases and reports of religious organizations at the time. Later figures draw on U.N. population estimates, surveys and censuses. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, April 2010
affiliation, for instance. There are many different opinions about what makes someone Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist. But no matter what anyone else thinks is correct, surveys typically rely on respondents’ self-identification to measure religious identity. If the same person
a. Growth in the number of people in the U.S. who are not religious Feb 4-15, 2020 60 30 9 1 b. Growth in the number of people in the U.S. who identify with non-Christian religions (such as Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism) Feb 4-15, 2020 29 48 22 1
non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult population. In U.S., smaller share of adults identify as Christians, while religious ‘nones’ have grown % of U.S. adults who identify as … Source: Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Studies (2007 and 2014). Aggregated Pew Research Center political surveys
1 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes
Christian Sikh Buddhist Jain Region Northeast North Central East West South 66 26 3 6 100 29999 67 25 2 6 100 22975 59 29 5 7 100 3336 55 32 3 10 100 1011 62 28 5 100 1782 87 11 1 100 719 74 23 0 3 100 109 63 26 2 8 100 1626 72 20 2 5 100 7238 75 21 1 3 100 2034 52 33 5 10 100 6852 81 16 1 2 100 6679 56 33 4 8 100 5570 0 0 Religion in India ...
Introduction Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life / U.S. Religious Landscape Survey 1 Introduction From the beginning of the Colonial period, religion has been a major factor in shaping the identity
who identify as Muslim, 1,782 who identify as Sikh, 1,011 who identify as Christian, 719 who identify as Buddhist, 109 who identify as Jain and 67 who identify as belonging to another religion or as religiously unaffiliated). Interviews for this nationally representative survey were conducted