{"id":194,"date":"2016-01-03T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2016-01-03T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T17:41:06","slug":"the-future-of-world-religions-2010-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/the-future-of-world-religions-2010-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of World Religions: 2010-2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study\u00a0undertaken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/04\/02\/religious-projections-2010-2050\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a>\u00a0indicates that, if current trends continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion \u2013 though increasing in countries such as the United States and France \u2013 will make up a declining share of the world\u2019s total population.<\/li>\n<li>The global Buddhist population will be about the same size it was in 2010, while the Hindu and Jewish populations will be larger than they are today.<\/li>\n<li>In Europe, Muslims will make up 10% of the overall population.<\/li>\n<li>India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li>In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion. Muslims will be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.<\/li>\n<li>Four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195\" src=\"http:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/religion2010to2050.png\" alt=\"religion2010to2050\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/religion2010to2050.png 640w, https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/religion2010to2050-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/religion2010to2050-600x342.png 600w, https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/religion2010to2050-250x143.png 250w, https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/religion2010to2050-150x86.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study\u00a0undertaken by Pew Research Center\u00a0indicates that, if current trends continue: The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world. Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion \u2013 though increasing in countries such as the United States and France \u2013\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/the-future-of-world-religions-2010-2050\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}