Stoning Adulterers
About eight-in-ten Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan endorse the stoning of people who commit adultery.
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New Pew Forum Report Projects Global Muslim Population To Increase Approximately 35% in Next 20 Years
But Rate of Growth Expected at Slower Pace than Past Two Decades Washington, D.C. — The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to a new, comprehensive report released today by the Pew Research Center’s […]
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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.
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Faith on the Hill – The Religious Composition of the 112th Congress
The political overhaul of the U.S. Congress after the 2010 elections appears to have had little effect on the religious composition of the legislative body, which is similar to the religious makeup of the previous Congress and of the nation, according to an analysis by the Pew Forum.
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Appendix A: Methodology
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 […]
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Main Factors Driving Population Growth
Fertility Fertility rates have fallen in most Muslim-majority countries in recent decades. Yet they remain, on average, higher than in the rest of the developing world and considerably higher than in more-developed countries. This is one of the main reasons that the global Muslim population is projected to rise both in absolute numbers and in […]
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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 […]
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No Shift Toward Gun Control After Tucson Shootings
Most Point to Troubled Individuals, Not Broader Societal Problems