Muslims emerged as the fastest growing religious group in the world over 2010-2020, while the share of Christians - the world's largest religious group - in the global population fell by 1.8 ...

While the number of Christians continued to grow from 2010 to 2020, the world’s population grew faster, according to the Pew Research Center.

The majority of the world's nones population, 67%, lives in China. However, Hackett noted the difficulty of capturing the complexity of religiosity in China, on which Pew has conducted research .

"As of 2010, Christianity was by far the world's largest religion, with an estimated 2.2 billion adherents, nearly a third (31 percent) of all 6.9 billion people on Earth," the Pew report says.

This overall projection (9.3 billion in 2050) matches the “medium variant” forecast in the United Nations Population Division’s World Population Prospects, 2010 revision. A recent update from the ...

Christians remained the largest religious group in the world in 2015, making up nearly a third (31%) of Earth’s 7.3 billion people, according to a new Pew Research Center demographic analysis.But the ...

Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world, according to a new study. Muslims now make up 25.6 per cent of the global population, while Christians make up 28.8 per cent, the ...

Nearly a quarter of the world's population no longer affiliates with any religion, a new report by the Pew Research Center shows. The study also revealed that while Christianity is the largest ...

The population trends of the rest of the century will also alter the texture of family life. As the fertility rate declines in many parts of the world, families will get smaller.

Hindus now comprise 14.9% of the world’s population, making Hinduism the fourth largest religion globally. India remains the faith’s primary hub, home to 95% of all Hindus.

Now it says the population bomb may never go off: it reckons sub-Saharan Africa’s population may peak as soon as 2060, which is 40 years earlier than the UN’s projections. Even so, fertility ...

In many parts of the world—sub-Saharan Africa in particular—religion is growing so fast that nones’ share of the global population will actually shrink in 25 years as the world turns into ...