Jay Diamond, Larry. [310] According to The New York Times, an estimated 25% of American Muslims are converts,[311] these converts are mostly African American. [90] Some reports also show that the number of the Chinese Indonesians Christians have increased,[91][92] according to scholar Gavin W. Jones of Australian National University, "there has been a rapid growth in the number of Chinese Christians" in Indonesia, and "conversion of Chinese to Christianity accelerated in the 1960s, especially in East Java, and for Indonesia as a whole the proportion of Chinese who were Catholics rose from 2 percent in 1957 to 6 percent in 1969". Police workforce, England and Wales: 31 March 2021 second edition [482] In contrast to the religion's slowing growth in India, Sikhism is the fastest growing religion in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Thus, this report excludes religious conversion as a direct factor from the projection of Muslim population growth. The WRD is edited by demographers Todd M. Johnson[520] and Brian J. At the same time, our projections suggest that the U.S. Muslim population will grow much faster than the countrys Jewish population. The survey was conducted in June 2020 for 15 days from June 17th to July 1st in 2020 and reflects the views of the educated people of Iran over the age of 19 (equivalent to 85% of Adults in Iran) and can be generalized to apply to this entire demographic. [83], The US Department of State estimated in 2005 that Protestants in Vietnam may have grown by 600% over the previous 10 years. Hibatullah Akhundzada praised his movement's advance in every corner of the country and celebrated the historic seizure of Kabul in August 2021 as one more. [329] According to the same study, Muslims population growth is twice of world's overall population growth due to young age and relatively high fertility rate and as a result Muslims are projected to rise to 30% (2050) of the world's population from 23% (2010). 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And only two western European countries France and Belgium will become around 10 percent Muslim, by 2030. [306], According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 213 million babies were born to Muslim mothers and roughly 61 million Muslims died, meaning that the natural increase in the Muslim population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 152 million over this period",[38] and it added small net gains through religious conversion into Islam (420,000). [263] It's been also reported that conversion into Christianity is significantly increasing among Korean,[264] Chinese,[265] and Japanese in the United States. Ellethy 2014, p. 181. By 2030 Muslims are projected to represent about 26.4% of the global population (out of a total of 7.9billion people). Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Europe. These cases do not contribute to a growth of Christianity overall, but rather to a substitution of a brand of Christianity with another one. [327] While both religions will grow but Muslim population will exceed the Christian population and by 2100, Muslim population (35%) will be 1% more than the Christian population (34%). By 2050, 38% of the world's Christians will live in the Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by 23% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 16% in Europe, 13% in Asia and the Pacific and 10% of the world's Christians will live in North America. [507], There has been recent conversions of Kurds from Islam to Zoroastrianism in Kurdistan for different reasons, including a sense of national and/or ethnic identity or for recent conflicts with radical Muslims, which had been enthusiastically received by Zoroastrians worldwide. [450] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 68 million babies were born to religiously unaffiliated mothers and roughly 42 million religiously unaffiliated died, meaning that the natural increase in the religiously unaffiliated population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 26 million over this period". [505] A slower birthrate than deathrate accounts for the rest: as of 2001, Parsis over the age of 60 make up for 31% of the community. [284] 79.8% of India's population is Hindu, accounting for about 90% of Hindus worldwide. ", "The Zoroastrians who remained in Persia (modern Iran) after the ArabMuslim conquest (7th century CE) had a long history as outcasts. Credit: Kitti Kahotong / EyeEm. Losing their religion: the hidden crisis of faith among Britain's young Afghanistan's international isolation cracks Taliban leadership Some of the tribes decided that as their loyalty to Islam had been primarily to Muhammad himself, his death . [125] Indonesia is home to the largest Christian community made up of converts from their former Islamic faith; according to various sources, since the mid and late 1960s, between two million to 2.5 million Muslims converted to Christianity. [519] The database groups adherents into 18 broadly-defined categories: Agnostics, Atheists,[c] Bahs, Buddhists, Chinese folk-religionists, Christians, Confucianists, Daoists, Ethnoreligionists, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Muslims, New Religionists, Shintoists, Sikhs, Spiritists, and Zoroastrians. Why Islam is the fastest growing Religion in the World? [75] Protestantism is growing primarily as a result of historic missionary activity and the recently high fertility rate in Africa,[76][77][38] and due primarily to conversion in China. 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA [476], Primarily for socio-economic reasons (Sikhs being the wealthiest and most educated of India's four major religious groups),[477] Indian Sikhs have the lowest adjusted growth rate of any major religious group in India, at 8.4% per decade (from 2001 to 2011), compared to the national rate of 17.7% per decade. While all these deaths are not attributable to ISIS alone, ISIS is . [70] On the other hand, Central and Eastern European countries did not experience a decline in the percentage of Christians, as the proportion of Christians in these countries have mostly been stable or even increasing. Although some national censuses ask people about their religion, they do not ask if they have converted to their presently espoused faith. But there are also states and counties with far fewer Muslims. To many Muslims, it may be the word of God, but in thinking this, they deny the fact that faith is a lived experience and the faith that they follow has been shaped by human lives who have gone before. [406], In 1939, the core Jewish population reached its historical peak of 17 million (0.8% of the global population). To get an isolated comparison of suicide across the world we can use suicide rates - these measure the number of suicides per 100,000 . It also stated that "the number of people who embrace Islam and the number of those who leave Islam are roughly equal. 'I Converted to Islam, But Hide My New Faith in Public': An Upper Caste Druzites or Al-Muwaidn are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group; the number of Druzites worldwide is between 800,000 and one million, with the vast majority residing in the Levant. [483][466][484][485], Johnson and Barrett (2004) estimate that the global Sikh population increases annually by 392,633 (1.7% per year, based on 2004 figures); this percentage includes births, deaths, and conversions. [87] In Singapore, the percentage of Christians among Singaporeans increased from 12.7%, in 1990, to 17.5%, in 2010. The Next Christendom: The Rise of Global Christianity. [319] A new study of Population Reference Bureau by demographers Charles Westoff and Tomas Frejka suggests that the fertility gap between Muslims and non-Muslims is shrinking and although the Muslim immigrants do have more children than other Europeans their fertility tends to decline over time, often faster than among non-Muslims. Middle East: Are people losing their religion? - DW - 02/04/2021 "[453], A similar pattern has been found in other countries such as Australia, Canada, and Mexico. Sign up now! Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, Size & Demographic Characteristics of Religious Groups, Muslims are a growing presence in U.S., but still face negative views from the public, Republicans account for a small but steady share of U.S. Muslims, The share of Americans who leave Islam is offset by those who become Muslim, New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow, 60% of Americans Would Be Uncomfortable With Provider Relying on AI in Their Own Health Care, Gender pay gap in U.S. hasnt changed much in two decades. [38] According to scholar Mark Juergensmeyer of University of California, Berkeley, the global Christian population increased at an average annual rate of 2.3%, while Roman Catholicism is growing by 1.3% annually, Protestantism is growing by 3.3% annually, and Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism is growing by 7% annually. Iran's secular shift: new survey reveals huge - The Conversation [89], In recent years, the number of Chinese Christians has increased significantly; Christians were 4 million before 1949 (3million Catholics and 1million Protestants), and are reaching 67million today. 55% of the Muslims who quit Islam prefer to follow no religion while 22% specifically adopt to become Christians. Statistics published in: Katharina Wenzel-Teuber, David Strait. Though exact numbers are difficult to tally, observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually. Like Americans in many other religious groups, a substantial share of adults who were raised Muslim no longer identify as members of the faith. : New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World, Think religion is in decline? 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Muslims Leaving Islam - The American Conservative [119][120][121][127][128][129][130], Christians of Muslim background communities can be found in Afghanistan,[131][132] Albania,[133][134][135][136][137][138] Algeria,[139][140][141][142][143] Argentina,[144] Australia,[124] Austria,[145][146] Azerbijan,[147][148] Bangladesh,[149][150] Belgium,[124] Bosnia and Herzegovina,[124] Bulgaria,[151] Canada,[124] Denmark,[152][153] Egypt,[124] Ethiopia,[124] Finland,[154][155] France,[124][156] Georgia (Abkhazia),[157] Germany,[158] Greece,[159][160] India (kashmir),[161] Iran,[162][163][164][165][166][167] Iraq,[168] Kazakhstan,[169] Kosovo,[170][171] Kyrgyzstan,[172][173] Lebanon,[174] Malaysia,[175] Morocco,[176][177][178][179][180] the Netherlands,[181][153] Nigeria,[124] Russia,[124] Saudi Arabia,[124] Singapore,[182] Sweden,[183][184] Syria,[185] Tanzania,[124] Tajikistan,[186] Tunisia,[187][188] Turkey,[189][190][191][192] United Kingdom,[193][194] the United States,[195][196] Uzbekistan,[197] and other countries. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. Since the 1980s, with the gradual opening of society, folk religion has begun to recover. 16 February 2008. [26] Religious switching is a sensitive topic in India,[523][19] and carries social and legal repercussions including the death penalty for apostasy in Muslim-majority countries. Table 4.1: Police officer leavers, by route of exit, years ending 31 March . In this . [490] Wicca, which is largely a "Pagan" religion primarily attracts followers of nature-based religions in, as an example, the Southeast Valley region of the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. H. Patrick Glenn, Legal Traditions of the World. The curse is said to cause misfortune or harm to the person that it is directed at. [335] Many Muslims who leave Islam face social rejection or imprisonment and sometimes murder or other penalties. 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Similar shares listed reasons related to a preference for other religions or philosophies (16%) and personal growth experiences (14%), such as becoming more educated or maturing. By 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the nations second-largest religious group after Christians. Famed new believers like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Keith Ellison seem to get all the attentionalong with flamboyant. Islam began in Arabia and from 633 AD until the late 10th century it was spread through conquests, far-reaching trade and missionary activity. [47] And according to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, within the next four decades, Christians will remain the world's largest religion; if current trends continue, by 2050 the number of Christians will reach 3billion (or 31.4%). [321] While decline of Muslim birth rates in coming years have also been well documented. It stated that, "Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world",[315][316] and stated that, "It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer". [60] According to various scholars and sources Pentecostalism a Protestant Christian movement is the fastest growing religion in the world,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] this growth is primarily due to religious conversion. [81] According to scholar Terence Chong, since 1980s Protestantism is expanding in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and South Korea. Seeing Your Alive Mother Dying in your dream may also signify premonition, isolation or trust issues from people. (Ms Lewthwaite reportedly had a close relationship with Muslim neighbours during her youth.) 6 Million Muslims LEAVE Islam every year!!! - VirtueOnline High fertility is a major driver of projected Muslim population growth around the world and in particular regions. One striking difference between former Muslims and those who have always been Muslim is in the share who hail from Iran. [339][341][342] Between 2010 and 2015 the Muslim fertility rate in Europe was (2.1). [495][496] From the 10th century onwards,[497] Zoroastrians emigrated to Gujarat, India where they found asylum from unjust persecutions and since then are called Parsi, since Indians called Persia Faras and hence named them Parsi. [74], According to a 2005 paper submitted to a meeting of the American Political Science Association, most of Christianity's growth has occurred in non-Western countries. Although such attitudes have a long history in Europe, the idea that Muslims are 'the enemy' has become more widespread over the last 30 years. A total of 144 persons adopted Islam. Another study found that the number of people who will leave Islam is 9,400,000 and the number of converts to Islam is 12,620,000 so the net gain to Islam through conversion should be 3 million between 2010 and 2050, . [313] Experts say that conversions to Islam have doubled in the past 25 years in France, among the six million Muslims in France, about 100,000 are converts. A 2014 study indicated that over 1.2 million people will leave the church in the next year. [245] While according to the book The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion, which written by professor of the Christian mission, Charles E. Farhadian, and professor of psychology, Lewis Rambo, in mid-2005 approximately 15.5million converted to Christianity from another religion, while approximately 11.7million left Christianity, most of them becoming irreligious, resulting in a net gain of 3.8 million. [47] In Nigeria, the percentage of Christians has grown from 21.4%, in 1953, to 50.8%, in 2010. Over that same time period, the number of people who do not identify with any particular religion increased from 16 percent to 29 percent. "[302] People switching their religions will likely have no effect on the growth of the Muslim population,[6] as the number of people who convert to Islam is roughly similar to those who leave Islam. [391], Orthodox and Conservative Judaism discourage proselytism to non-Jews,[392] but many Jewish groups have tried to reach out to the assimilated Jewish communities of the Diaspora in order for them to reconnect to their Jewish roots. [40] This shows a significant growth from the 300400million people practicing Chinese traditional religion that were estimated in the 1990s and early 2000s. According to Pew research, 13 percent of Americans today self-identify as "former Catholics," and many of them leave organized religion altogether. Leaving Islam cost me my relationship with my family but it made me a [26], According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 32 million babies were born to Buddhist mothers and roughly 20 million Buddhists died, meaning that the natural increase in the Buddhists population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 12 million over this period". [248] According to scholar Wang Zuoa, 500,000 Chinese converts to Protestantism annually. [115][116] According to study by Pew Research Center in 2021, around 19% of American those who say they were raised Jewish or who had at least one Jewish parent now identify as Christian. As teenagers and 20-somethings seek to earn a. ), According to Pew Research Center survey in 2012, religiously unaffiliated (include agnostic and atheist) make up about 18.2% of Europe's population,[450] and they make up the majority of the population in only two European countries: Czech Republic (76%) and Estonia (60%). [38], As of around 2020, there were about 8 million Bah's in the world. Seeing Your Alive Mother Dying in your dream may also signify And roughly one-in-five (19%) volunteered that they had no religion before converting to Islam, while smaller shares switched from Orthodox Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism or some other religion. Religion. Some faiths grow exponentially at first (especially, for example, along trade routes[27] (RNS) It's bad news for organized religion: A majority of the religiously unaffiliated the so-called "nones" say they fell away from faith not because of any . [52] In 2010, 26% of the world's Christians lived in Europe, followed by 24.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 23.8% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 13.2% in Asia and the Pacific, 12.3% in North America, and 1% in the Middle East and North Africa. New data shows growing number of people leaving religion behind [88] According to scholar Michael Nai-Chiu Poon of University of Toronto conversion to Christianity is increasing among Chinese Singaporeans.