For Immediate Release
January 25, 2011
Washington, D.C. — In a 10 a.m. EST conference call forjournalists on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011,the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life will discuss thefindings contained in its new report, TheFuture of the Global Muslim Population. This comprehensive demographic study seeks toprovide up-to-date estimates of the number of Muslims around the world in 2010and to project the growth of the Muslim population from 2010 to 2030. Wherepossible, the report also illustrates trends by providing data from 1990 and2000.
Populationprojections for each of the world’s 232 countries and territories included inthis report are based on four main factors: births (fertility rates), deaths (mortalityrates), migration (emigration and immigration) and the age structure of thepopulation (the number of people in various age groups). Related factors —which are not direct inputs into the projections but which underlie vital assumptionsabout the way Muslim fertility rates are changing and Muslim populations are shifting— include education, economic well-being, contraception and family planning,urbanization and religious switching (conversion).
The Future of the Global Muslim Population is part of thePew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, an effort funded by The PewCharitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation to analyze religious changeand its impact on societies around the world.
Telephone NewsConference
CONTACT
Liga Plaveniece
Communications Associate
202-419-4586
lplaveniece@pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion
WHO:
Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Alan Cooperman, Associate Director for Research, Pew Forum on Religion &Public Life
Brian J. Grim, SeniorResearcher and Director of Cross-National Data, Pew Forum on Religion &Public Life
WHEN:
Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, 10 a.m. EST
RSVP INSTRUCTIONS:
Please send your full name, title, the name of your publication or organization,where you are based and your contact information to Liga Plaveniece at lplaveniece@pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion to reserve your place.
The online presentationof The Future of the Global MuslimPopulation, which includes an executive summary and interactive global map,will be made available to the public at pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion at 12:01 a.m. EST on Jan. 27.
The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Lifeconducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science researchon important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and aroundthe world. As part of the Washington-based Pew Research Center, anonpartisan, nonadvocacy organization, the Pew Forum does not takepositions on any of the issues it covers or on policy debates.
