According to a study released Thursday that the number of Muslims are expected to reach 2.2 billion inhabitants in 2030, compared to 1.6 billion in 2010 which represented 26.4 percent of world population , compared with 23.4 percent today, while in 1990, nisbat they have not exceeded 20 percent.
According to the study, the population of Pakistan, a Muslim majority, will exceed the population of Indonesia, which is the largest Muslim country in the world, and will exceed the total population 256 million people, according to CNN's website quoted in the Arabic language of the Forum of religion and public life "Bio".
The study, carrying the title (the future of the world's Muslim population) estimated the number of Muslims in the United States will exceed 6.2 million Muslims, making the number of Muslims is approximately equal to the number of Jews or followers of the Episcopal Church in the United States today.
While the number of Afghans will rise sharply, nearly 50 million people, into an Islamic state ninth in terms of population.
And the number of Muslims in the "Israel" - the territories occupied in 1948 - will increase to a quarter of the population, because in 2030 the number of Muslims will be 2.1 million or 23.2 percent of the population of "Israel" does not include West Bank and Gaza Strip, compared with 1.3 million, or approximately 17.7 per cent in 2010. While the Palestinian birth rate is the highest in the world.
It is estimated that Nigeria, which has experienced sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians that has killed thousands of people during the last decade, will become a country with a Muslim majority in 2030.
And the number of Muslims in France will increase to 6.9 million, or 10.3 percent of the population from the previous 4.7 million or 7.5 per cent and in Britain to 5.2 million or 8.2 percent from the previous 2.9 million , while in Germany to 5.5 million or 7.1 percent from the previous 4.1 million or five percent, showed that the proportion of Muslims in Europe will rise in 2030, up to 8 percent of the total population in the old continent.
According to research, about 60 percent of the world's Muslims live in Asia and the Pacific in 2030 and 20 percent in the Middle East and 17.6 per cent in countries south of the Sahara Africa's largest and Europe's 2.6 percent and 0.5 percent in America.
This study shows that the Sunnis will continue to represent the majority of Muslims, or about 87-90 percent, while the number of Shiites can be reduced with the relative decline in birth rate in Iran, where about a third of Shiites around the world.
According to the report, the increasing number of Muslim population in the world are caused by high birth rates, which is the highest among the world's population. Although an increasing number of Muslims are among the highest in the world, but that the proportion of this increase is lower than the previous which decreased slowly than in previous years, according to research.
(Ar / islammemo)
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