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A decline of Christian affiliation in the Western world has been observed in the decades since the end of World War II.While most countries in the Western world were historically almost exclusively Christian, the post-World War II era has seen developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities shifting towards post-Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural and multifaith ...
Despite the decline, Muslims still have the highest birth rate among the world's major religious groups. [308] [309] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the World Christian Database as of 2007 has Islam as the fastest-growing religion in the world. [310]
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.
First Baptist's pastor, Ryan Burge, spends much of his time as a researcher documenting the dramatic decline in religious affiliation in recent decades. Burge has witnessed the reality of his ...
Religion has been waxing and waning and resurrecting itself for millennia, in every age and on every inhabited continent. Its great decline, even its death, has often been prophesied. The faithful ...
According to scholar Ladan Boroumand "Iran [as of 2020 was] witnessing the highest rate of Christianization in the world", [162] and according to scholar Shay Khatiri of Johns Hopkins University "Islam is the fastest shrinking religion in there [Iran], while Christianity is growing the fastest", [163] and in 2018 "up to half a million Iranians ...
A Pew Research Center Study shows that 10% of all Europeans could be members of the Muslim faith by 2050.
Some theorists think religion will fade away but Pew reveals a more complicated picture. [10] Pew predicts the unaffiliated share of the world population will decrease, at least for a while, from 16.4% to 13.2% by 2050. [57] [10] Pew states that religious areas are experiencing the fastest growth because of higher fertility and younger populations.