Islam fastest growing religion, number of Muslims increased by 347 million in 10 years: Islam is the fastest growing religion, the number of Muslims Increased by 347 Million in 10 years: Pew report

According to a new study by Pew Research Center, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. The number of followers in the last decade has increased the most compared to any other religious community. Between 2010 and 2020, the Muslim population worldwide increased by 34.7 crores, leading to a major demographic change in the global religious scenario. Pu’s report says that the main reason for this change is not religious change, but population growth.

Although Christianity is still the largest religion in the world, its share in the world’s population has decreased slightly, while the ratio of Islam and other religious groups has been increasing. The population of Hindus has increased equal to the world’s total population, which reached 1.2 billion in 2020, of which 95 percent are in India.

By 2020, Hindus had 79 percent stake in India’s population, which was 80 percent in 2010. The report titled ‘How to Global Religious Scenario Badla’ from 2010 to 2020 shows that the share of Muslims in India’s population has increased from 14.3 percent in 2010 to 15.2 percent in 2020. As a ratio of global population, Hindus have been stable at 14.9 percent. This is a slight decrease compared to 15 percent of 2010.

The report says that the population of Jews has increased by about 6 percent in these 10 years. The Jewish population has increased from 1.4 crores to 1.5 crore. By 2020, 45.9 percent of Jews lived in Israel, the largest Jewish population in any country. After that 41.2 percent of Jews lived in North America.

According to the report, Buddhists are the only major religious groups that declined in 2020 compared to a decade ago. The number of Buddhists in the world has decreased by 0.8 percent.

The report of Pew Research states that ‘Nonness’ is the third largest growing group. Let me tell you that there are usually those people who do not believe in any religion. The number of Nons has increased by 27 crores to 1.9 billion. The share of ‘Noness’ in the world population has increased by about one percent to 24.2 percent.