Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from
1.6 billion to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to demographic rate study suggestive of percentage in figures. Collected data from 234 countries and territories;
predicts fate of five major faiths -- Buddhism,
Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as
folk religions and atheists.
If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.
Yes, despite predictions that religion will go the way of dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry, Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to studies.
The large turn out in statistic prediction will be Islam and Christianity.
Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. At that time, Muslims will make up nearly one-third of the world's total projected population of about 9 billion people.
Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam's explosive rate. Christians
will increase from 2.17 billion to 2.92 billion, composing more than 31% of the world's population.
This means that by 2050, more than 6 out of 10 people on Earth will be Christian or Muslim. And, for perhaps the first time in history, Islam and Christianity would boast roughly equal numbers.
1.6 billion to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to demographic rate study suggestive of percentage in figures. Collected data from 234 countries and territories;
predicts fate of five major faiths -- Buddhism,
Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as
folk religions and atheists.
If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.
Yes, despite predictions that religion will go the way of dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry, Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to studies.
The large turn out in statistic prediction will be Islam and Christianity.
Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. At that time, Muslims will make up nearly one-third of the world's total projected population of about 9 billion people.
Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam's explosive rate. Christians
will increase from 2.17 billion to 2.92 billion, composing more than 31% of the world's population.
This means that by 2050, more than 6 out of 10 people on Earth will be Christian or Muslim. And, for perhaps the first time in history, Islam and Christianity would boast roughly equal numbers.
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