10 Fastest Growing Religions

Christianity has remained the world’s largest religious group for decades, accounting for 31% of the world’s 7.3 billion inhabitants. Islam is in second place, with 24% of the world’s population, with the remaining 45% identifying as none (16%), Hindus (15%), Buddhists (7%), and Unaffiliated and adherent folk faiths (7%). As a result, Christianity and Islam accounted for more than half of the global population in 2015. Now things are changing, so let’s look at this list of the top 10 fastest growing religions in the world.

Islam – the fastest growing religion

By 2060, the global population is predicted to have expanded by 32%, with Muslims expected to have grown by 70%, making them the fastest growing religious group. According to the Pew Research Center, during the second half of the twenty-first century, the number of Muslims will have surpassed that of Christians. Natural demographic factors like a young population and high pregnancy rates are predicted to promote the rapid growth of Muslims worldwide.
With a median age of 24, Muslims are the world’s youngest major religious group. Africa and the Middle East, where the world population growth rate is anticipated to be the fastest, have the highest concentration. Unlike women in other religious groups, who have an average of two children in their lifetime, Muslim women have a higher fertility rate, with an average of three children.
These dynamics are also true in areas with a large Muslim population. Muslims in India, for example, is anticipated to expand at a higher rate than the native Hindu religion, reaching 333 million by 2060. The Caribbean and Latin America are the only regions designated as having the smallest Muslim population since only a tiny number of Muslims are permitted in these areas.

Agnostics

 

Atheists, agnostics, and other non-religious persons will make up a shrinking percentage of the global population, despite their increasing numbers in nations like the United States and France.

The Bahai Faith

1.70% annual growth rate with 7.7 million adherents Bahais exist all throughout the world, but the majority (1.8 million) live in India. Bahullh, who claimed to be the next in a line of prophets extending from Abraham to Jesus Christ to Mohammed, founded the Bahai faith in Iran in 1863. The Bahai faith’s global headquarters are in Haifa, Israel.

Sikhism

With a 1.62% growth rate, over 90% of the world’s Sikhs live in India, with the majority of them centered in Punjab, a northern Indian state. The Sikh minority of several hundred thousand individuals is rising in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Jainism

with a Growth rate of 1.57%, Jainism Adherents to 5.9 million due to the High birth rates in India; Jainism is one of the fastest-growing religions in the world.

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Hinduism

The Hindu population is expected to grow by 34% worldwide, from a little over 1 billion to nearly 1.4 billion, about in line with general population growth. With a growth rate of 1.52%, Hinduism Adherents to 870 million people.

Christianity

1.38% growth rate Pentecostal movements in Latin America, Africa, China, and India have 2.2 billion adherents due to high birth rates and conversions. Misin Carismtica Internacional in Colombia is the world’s fastest growing individual church; the Pentecostal denomination was established in Bogot in 1983 and had 150,000 members.

Ethnoreligious 

An ethnoreligious group (or an ethnoreligious group) is a grouping of people who are unified by a common religious and ethnic background. With a rate of 1.06 and 242 million is emerging quite quickly.

Judaism

Jews, the smallest religious group for which distinct forecasts were produced, are anticipated to increase by 16%, from little under 14 million in 2010 to 16.1 million in 2050.

Folk religion

The number of people who follow various folk religions, such as African traditional religions, Chinese folk religions, Native American religions, and Australian aboriginal faiths, is expected to rise by 11%, from 405 million to approximately 450 million people.