Muslims
are the fastest-growing group in the world since they have the youngest median
age (30) of all religious groups, and by 2050, India will be the country with
the world's largest Muslim population, said American think tank Pew Research
Centre.
Presently,
Islam is the world's second-largest religion after Christianity. Pew said that
if current demographic trends continued, Muslim population would exceed the
number of Christians by the end of this century. India is set to be home to 300
million Muslims by 2050.
There
were 1.6 billion Muslims in the world as of 2010 -23% of the global population.
Presently, Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population. In a 2015
report, Pew said that while the world's population was projected to grow by 35%
in the coming decades, the number of Muslims was expected to increase by 73%
-to 2.8 billion in 2050.In fact, Muslims are the only major religious group
projected to increase faster than the world's population.
At
62%, a majority of Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region. This included large
populations in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Turkey, Pew
said. “The Muslim population in Europe also is growing; we project 10% of all
Europeans will be Muslims by 2050,“ Pew said.
