Mapped - World religious landscape 2050
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:46 pm
Mapped: What the world's religious landscape will look like in 2050
Christianity will remain the world's top religion despite the growth of Islam and atheism increases in the West. Click on the map to find out what the status of the world's faiths will be 35 years from now
Islam is the world's fastest growing religion but despite the increasing numbers, Christians will still outnumber Muslims in 2050, a new report has found.
Religion, despite its decline in the West as the map above shows, is proliferating across the world - by 2050, Muslims will make up 10 per cent of Europe's population. By 2100, Muslims will outnumber Christians globally, Pew believe.
"By the year 2100, about 1 per cent more of the world’s population would be Muslim (35 per cent) than Christian (34 per cent)," the authors wrote.
According to the Pew Research Centre, the religiously unaffiliated - referring to atheists, agnostics and other people who do not identify with a religion - are declining as a share of the population.
For the maps and more of the article see the link below.
Some interesting reading. I'm not sure how they have really come to their conclusions (trends change all the time and quite how 'current figures' are come by is not exactly clear), but I can agree with the closing statement.
'In their report, the authors explained that their analysis was based on trends and current figures but that "any events – scientific discoveries, armed conflicts, social movements, political upheavals, natural disasters and changing economic conditions" could alter their predictions. '
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -2050.html
Christianity will remain the world's top religion despite the growth of Islam and atheism increases in the West. Click on the map to find out what the status of the world's faiths will be 35 years from now
Islam is the world's fastest growing religion but despite the increasing numbers, Christians will still outnumber Muslims in 2050, a new report has found.
Religion, despite its decline in the West as the map above shows, is proliferating across the world - by 2050, Muslims will make up 10 per cent of Europe's population. By 2100, Muslims will outnumber Christians globally, Pew believe.
"By the year 2100, about 1 per cent more of the world’s population would be Muslim (35 per cent) than Christian (34 per cent)," the authors wrote.
According to the Pew Research Centre, the religiously unaffiliated - referring to atheists, agnostics and other people who do not identify with a religion - are declining as a share of the population.
For the maps and more of the article see the link below.
Some interesting reading. I'm not sure how they have really come to their conclusions (trends change all the time and quite how 'current figures' are come by is not exactly clear), but I can agree with the closing statement.
'In their report, the authors explained that their analysis was based on trends and current figures but that "any events – scientific discoveries, armed conflicts, social movements, political upheavals, natural disasters and changing economic conditions" could alter their predictions. '
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -2050.html
