Global Muslim Population Expected To Reach 2.8 Billion By 2050

According to a projection from Pew Research Center, the world’s Muslim population is expected to grow faster than any other religious faction.

They estimate that Muslims “will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between 2010 and 2050 and, in the second half of this century, will likely surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group”

That’s good thing, if you think about it. I mean, Islam is an incredibly peaceful religion, so the world should be more peaceful overall! That’s how it works, right?

Global population as a whole is expected to grow 35% over the next few decades. The Muslim population, however, is expected to grow by an astonishing 73%, jumping from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.8 billion in 2050.

By 2050, Muslims will be nearly as numerous as Christians, who are projected to remain the world’s largest religious group at 31.4% of the global population.

This is largely attributed to the number of children Muslims have.

The main reasons for Islam’s growth ultimately involve simple demographics. To begin with, Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups analyzed in the study. Each Muslim woman has an average of 3.1 children, significantly above the next-highest group (Christians at 2.7) and the average of all non-Muslims (2.3). In all major regions where there is a sizable Muslim population, Muslim fertility exceeds non-Muslim fertility.

 

Muslim and Non-Muslim Fertility RatesThe growth of the Muslim population also is helped by the fact that Muslims have the youngest median age (23 in 2010) of all major religious groups, seven years younger than the median age of non-Muslims (30). A larger share of Muslims will soon be at the point in their lives when people begin having children. This, combined with high fertility rates, will accelerate Muslim population growth.

Time will tell, I suppose.

h/t Truth Revolt