from Religion Media Centre
Latest research from the Pew Research Centre shows how the world’s population and the number of people in religious groups, has grown in a decade.
Relying on an analysis of 2,700 censuses and surveys of the years 2010-2020, the findings show Christianity remained the world’s biggest religious group, but the number increased at a slower pace than for Muslims. The number of Christians rose by 122 million, to 2.3 billion, but its share of the world’s population fell 1.8 percentage points, to 28.8 per cent. Muslims were the fastest-growing religious group over the decade, increasing by 347 million to 2 billion, with a share rising by 1.8 points, to 25.6 per cent.
People with no religious affiliation, “nones”,were the only category apart from Muslims which grew as a percentage of the world’s population, reaching 1.9 billion.
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