3. Muslim population change
Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing and second-largest religious group. In the Middle East-North Africa region, they make up 94% of the population.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing and second-largest religious group. In the Middle East-North Africa region, they make up 94% of the population.
Find out what percentage of adults have joined or left Islam, or remained Muslim since childhood, in 13 countries.
In a number of countries with sizable Muslim and Jewish populations, we asked Muslim and Jewish adults for their views on religion and governance – specifically, whether religious law should be the official or state law for people who share their religion, and whether their country can be both a democratic country and a Muslim […]
Christians are still a majority in Europe but disaffiliation thinned the Christian population from 2010 to 2020.
Every religious group grew in count in the Middle East and North Africa – a Muslim-majority region – between 2010 and 2020.
Most people in sub-Saharan Africa are Christian. Christians and Muslims grew rapidly in number in the region from 2010 to 2020.
Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by country.
Read how demographic factors – age composition, life expectancy and fertility rates – and religious switching changed the global religious landscape.
Hindus, Muslims and the unaffiliated each make up about a quarter or more of the Asia-Pacific population. These groups all grew there from 2010-2020.
Compared with last year, perceptions of discrimination against Jews and Muslims have declined among both Republicans and Democrats (including independents who lean toward each party). There also has been a modest decrease in the share of the public saying evangelical Christians face at least some discrimination, largely due to a change among Republicans. Read the […]
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