Resources on the Future of the Global Muslim Population
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Explore the Future of the Global Muslim Population report and related resources.
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This study uses the standard demographic method of making population projections. Called the cohort-component method, it takes the age and sex structure of a population into account when projecting the population forward in time. This has the advantage of recognizing that an initial, baseline population can be relatively “young,” with a high proportion of people […]