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reportFeb 3, 2011

Bloggers Focus on a Supreme Court Justice and Social Security

The top subjects for bloggers last week involved Washington-centric stories, but not the one that galvanized much of the mainstream media. The lead subject on Twitter was about online news judgment. And on YouTube, an eight-month-old clip featuring remarks by talk host Glenn Beck became the subject of a debate about inflammatory speech.
reportJan 27, 2011

The Future of the Global Muslim Population

A new Pew Forum report on the size, distribution and growth of the global Muslim population finds that the world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, but it is expected to grow at a slower pace in the next two decades than it did in the previous two decades.
reportNov 4, 2010

Indonesia’s Place Along the Spectrum of Global Religious Restriction

Indonesia, where President Barack Obama will visit this month and where he spent part of his childhood, is among those countries of the globe where such restrictions and hostilities are highest.
reportNov 4, 2010

Indonesia’s Place Along the Spectrum of Global Religious Restriction

This analysis draws upon testimony on U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy: the Outlook for 2010, before the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight, Feb. 3, 2010.
transcriptJan 27, 2011

Event Transcript: The Future of the Global Muslim Population

In a conference call for journalists, Pew Forum staff members discussed the findings from The Future of the Global Muslim Population.
reportJan 27, 2011

Related Factors

The following factors are not direct inputs into the projections, but they underlie vital assumptions about the way Muslim fertility rates are changing and Muslim populations are shifting. Education As in the rest of the world, fertility rates in countries with Muslim-majority populations are directly related to educational attainment. Women tend to delay childbearing when […]
reportDec 15, 2010

Global Publics Embrace Social Networking

In regions around the world – and in countries with varying levels of economic development – people who use the internet are using it for social networking. Other forms of technology are also increasingly popular: cell phone ownership and computer usage have grown significantly across the globe over the last three years, and they have risen dramatically since 2002. Consistently, these technologies are especially popular among young people.
reportDec 15, 2010

Global Publics Embrace Social Networking

Although still a relatively young technology, social networking is already a global phenomenon. A 22-nation survey finds that in regions around the world, people who use the internet are using it for social networking. Cell phone ownership and computer usage are also increasingly popular across the globe.
reportSep 15, 2010

Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-i Islami

The Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-i Islami are separate movements that tend to draw the bulk of their members from different ethnic groups (Arabs and South Asians, respectively). Nevertheless, both groups are rooted in a political ideology, frequently described as “Islamist,” that calls for the establishment of a distinctly Islamic system of government. The Muslim Brotherhood is […]
reportJan 27, 2011

Table: Muslim Population Growth by Country

.footnotes p{ color: #58585B;font-size: 1.2em !important; } td{ padding: 8px 5px !important; } Tables: Muslim Population by Country | Muslim Population Growth by Country Country Estimated 1990 Muslim Population Percentage Increase in Muslim Population from 1990-2010 Estimated 2010 Muslim Population Projected Percentage Increase in Muslim Population from 2010-2030* Projected 2030 Muslim Population* Afghanistan 12,551,000 131.4% […]