Six Fascinating Facts About the Future of Religionby Yuval Rosenberg
April 3, 2015
The Fiscal Times
Islam Will Be the World’s Biggest Religion By Around 2070
More of the World's Population Will Be Religious
...the Pew report forecasts that the number of atheists, agnostics and "religiously unaffiliated" or secular people will grow in absolute terms but will shrink as a percentage of the world's population, from 16 percent in 2010 to 13 percent by the middle of the century.
Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Will Drive Many of the Trends
Christians Will No Longer Be a Majority in Several Countries
The U.S. Is Getting Less Christian, Too
China Is a Huge Wild Card
About half of China’s 1.3 billion people are estimated to be religiously unaffiliated now and about 5 percent is thought to be Christian, but the report notes that "if Christianity expands in China in the decades to come — as some experts predict — then by 2050, the global numbers of Christians may be higher than projected, and the decline in the percentage of the world's population that is religiously unaffiliated may be even sharper."
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