Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Read our research on:

Search results for: “caribbean”

Refine Your Results

  • report

    13. Religion in North America

    A majority of North Americans are Christian. But Christian populations declined in the U.S. and Canada, while the unaffiliated grew, from 2010 to 2020.

  • report

    6. Buddhist population change

    Buddhism is the only major religion that declined in number globally between 2010 and 2020, mostly due to religious disaffiliation in East Asia and to low birth rates.

  • report

    4. Muslim migrants around the world

    Muslims account for 29% of global migrants and most commonly live in the Middle-East North Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.

  • report

    2. Global migration change, 1990-2020

    Migration outpaced global population growth by 83% to 47% from 1990-2020. Buddhist and Muslim migrants more than doubled in number during this time.

  • report

    8. Jewish population change

    Jewish people make up 0.2% of the world population. Jews rose in number by 6% from 2010 to 2020, mostly due to growth in Israel.

  • report

    Methodology

    The data for the historical analysis in this report is derived from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS), which are conducted in March of every year. The specific files used in this report are from March 1971 to March 2023 and contain data on the annual income of […]

REfine Your Selection

Years
Formats
Regions & Countries
Topics
Research Teams
Authors