Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study.

Study collected data from 234 countries and territories; predicts fate of five major faiths -- Buddhism, Christianity,Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as folk religions and atheists.

(CNN)— If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year
2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.

Yes, despite predictions that religion will go the way of
dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry,Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

The biggest winners, Pew predicts, will be Islam and Christianity.

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But it's clear from the 245-page report that Pew and the demographic experts they consulted did their homework, so the study is worth taking seriously. With that in mind, here are some of the study's top findings about what the world will look like -- at least, faith- wise -- in 2050.

-- Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people will increase in the United States (from 16% to 26%) but decline as a share of the total worldwide population.

-- Also in the United States, Christians will drop from 75% to 66% of population. Muslims will surpass Jews as the largest non-Christian religion in the U.S.

-- Sub-Saharan African will be home to 40% of the Christian population and Nigeria have more Christians than any other country except for the United States and Brazil.

-- India will have the largest Muslim population in the world, passing Indonesia, but Hindus will retain a majority.

-- More than 10% of Europeans will be Muslim, while the number of Christians in Europe will drop by 100 million.

-- Hinduism (1.4 billion adherents) and Judaism (16 million) will increase, while Buddhists will be about the same size as in 2010 (5.2 million).

-- In the coming decades, 106 million people are projected to leave Christianity. (46 million will convert to Christianity, offsetting the losses a little.)

-- The number of countries with Christian majorities will drop to 151, as Christians are projected to decrease in Australia,Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Macedonia and the United Kingdom.

-- Muslims are expected to make up more than 50% of the population in 51 countries, including the Republic of Macedonia and Nigeria.

EroticAngelina:
why won't they be larger when they keep on killing non-muslims a.k.a CHRISTIANS!

trouble makers.

Pavore9:
lslam growth is hinged on polygamy where a man can have up to 21 kids from his wives, with d murder spree going on in d Arab world where they are killing themselves in d name of the same Allah they want us to believe is the most merciful...an irony!

johnydon22:
Be sure to keep books away from the young ones, because they will turn rationalistic if you dont.

Islam have been doing this for years now and be beheading the ones that questions their beliefs. thats why you see most behaving like cows..

2050? religions will increase? lmao... tell us another joke..

Rilwayne001:


Stop generalizing.

The popolution of radical muslim worldwide is not up to 10%, and definitely they will go into oblivion.

johnydon22:
Be sure to keep books away from the young ones, because they will turn rationalistic if you dont.

Islam have been doing this for years now and be beheading the ones that questions their beliefs. thats why you see most behaving like cows..

2050? religions will increase? lmao... tell us another joke..

EroticAngelina:

of course, u are quick to come to the defense of ur fellow Muslims. the fact that some of Muslims(small or big) kill non-muslims says a lot about ur religion.

sometimes we have to generalize ok. so keep ur advice to urself pls.

Ifeann:


Johnny have u heard of the theory of natural selection. ..as an atheist i know u have..

muslims have been beheading any smart muslim that asks questions or is intelligent enough to see the scam called Mohammed for what he is.. this has greatly decimated the gene pool of smart muslims.. the majority of muslims are a little more than wild donkeys because the gene pool is filled up with stu.pid islamist genes replicating each other..

unfortunately johnny the islamic population is spreading , i have seen other research that says the same.. polygamy has ensured that the world does not run out of muslims, eg the recently deceased saudi king had married 30 wives during his life , your new president was the 23 child of his father...and he himself has 10 children which is very conservative for a nigerian muslim.
muslims will out populate christains in nigeria in the future.. sad but very probable.

-- Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people will increase in the United States (from 16% to 26%) but decline as a share of the total worldwide population.

johnydon22:
Be sure to keep books away from the young ones, because they will turn rationalistic if you dont.

Islam have been doing this for years now and be beheading the ones that questions their beliefs. thats why you see most behaving like cows..

2050? religions will increase? lmao... tell us another joke..

Ifeann:


Johnny have u heard of the theory of natural selection. ..as an atheist i know u have..

muslims have been beheading any smart muslim that asks questions or is intelligent enough to see the scam called Mohammed for what he is.. this has greatly decimated the gene pool of smart muslims.. the majority of muslims are a little more than wild donkeys because the gene pool is filled up with stu.pid islamist genes replicating each other..

unfortunately johnny the islamic population is spreading , i have seen other research that says the same.. polygamy has ensured that the world does not run out of muslims, eg the recently deceased saudi king had married 30 wives during his life , your new president was the 23 child of his father...and he himself has 10 children which is very conservative for a nigerian muslim.
muslims will out populate christains in nigeria in the future.. sad but very probable.

Rilwayne001:

Pavore9:


ls there any lie in my statement?

Rilwayne001:


Yes

(CNN)— If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year
2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.

Pavore9:


Then enlighten me.

DProDG:

Lol, if the Muslim population dominates, I'm pretty sure we'll be back on camels in 2k50.
The only flying done will be into buildings.

Rilwayne001:


I will not be the one to do that, you should seek for knowledge and stop being ignorant.

Pavore9:


Being ignorant? l posted my opinion which you refute and being open minded l gave you an opportunity to state your view and you ended up being arrogant!

Then l have every right to stick to my earlier opinion,

polygamy is giving moslems the numbers not conversions.

Should moslems practice monogamy

and with the killing spree going on amongst your folks only God knows how many will be left in the next 50 years!

Ifeann:
lol....this joke was epic

Rilwayne001:


Sorry if it appears to you that I am arrogant, but I am actually not.



You are entitled to it.



But if polygamy is truly the one giving muslims number, how come muslim dominated countries are not in the first 5 most populated countries?

China is the world most populated country with over 1.3billion population, are they muslim country? do they practise polygamy? what gave them the numbers?



Muslims do practice monogamy. polygamy is only allowed for those who have the capacity to take care of it.



Okay

Rilwayne001:
But if polygamy is truly the one giving muslims number, how come muslim dominated countries are not in the first 5 most populated countries?

Rilwayne001:


No a joke