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IN RECENT YEARS, Christians have had more babies than any other religious group worldwide. But by 2035, Muslims are projected to experience the higher birth rate, putting the world’s two largest religions on track to have a near equal share of the global population by 2060, according to a demographic analysis released last night.
With 2.3 billion adherents, Christians are the world’s largest religious group and are expected to remain so for several decades, according to the Pew Research Center report The Changing Global Religious Landscape.
Muslims have 1.8 billion followers, but a Muslim baby boom is expected to narrow that gap. By 2060, Muslims are expected to comprise 31% of the world population, with nearly 3 billion people, while Christians will make up about 32%, or 3.1 billion people.
The new report builds on a Pew study two years ago that found Islam is the world’s fastest-growing major faith and, if current demographic trends continue, Muslims could outnumber Christians by the end of the century.
The analyses are based on 2,500 censuses, surveys and population registers from around the world. Pew researchers took into account expected conversion rates, but said birth and death rates would have a far greater impact on religious populations.
According to the latest report, 223 million babies were born to Christians from 2010 to 2015, compared to 213 million babies born to Muslims in the same period. By 2035, the number of babies born to Muslims is projected to exceed those for Christians, narrowly at first, then eventually by millions.
Other religious groups, including Hindus and Jews, will grow in total numbers by 2060, but will not keep pace with global population growth. A low birth rate for people who don’t affiliate with any religion means that their share of the world population will also shrink.
Christianity is growing especially strongly in sub-Saharan Africa. By 2060, 4 in 10 Christians will live in Africa, according to Pew’s projections. At the same time, in many European countries, such as Germany, the death rate for Christians is exceeding births, a trend that is expected to continue.
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This winner of this week’s Ireland’s dumbest criminal.
They’re all winners.
Should have been a maniac instead of a brainiac
may be dumb but dangerous as any simple google search will show
Recaptured?! He handed himself in.
And didn’t even throw away the knife first. What a genius.
You’d have to wonder where he tried to hide it. Seems like he’s enjoying himself though.
Why do skangers always look the same??? sound the same who are they trying to emulate? They should be aiming themselves to be like enda kenny
Socio – economics peer pressure basically makes them want to fit in. The real question is why anybody who is not a criminal wants to dress like one.
Obviously not too worried about the consequences of his actions and why should he because there are no consequences.
So he handed himself in whilst carrying a weapon. Ireland’s dumbest criminal? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Clearly he just knows that he will. It get any extra prison time for absconding or for carrying a weapon whilst a prisoner.
It will just give him temporary kudos amongst the skang fraternity
Who is in today? haha!
46 convictions at 22 years of age…ffs…what a waste of space!
can’t doubt his dedication…. if this skobe has been done 46 times. imagine what he’s got away with…… I’d have him and his ilk doing 20 years hard labour or chain ganged
Plonker!
Let’s hope the authorities manage to hold on to him this time
Left through the back door of the courthouse! I suppose we should be grateful he isn’t Hannibal Lector
what a dope he walked into a cop shot known he was wanted carrying a weapon, surely he must have known he would be searched
cop shop
No point in been stupid if you don’t show it !
*being
Yawn !
He’s not called short planks for nothing.
What a dud.
He looks like a right F×ckin Donkey!
A knife,a number of phones, and a USB stick. Jaysus
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