I was doing an analysis of how
world religions have moved from the year 1801 onwards and the figures clearly
point to something....
In the year 1801 Christianity
comprised 20% of the World population but by the year 2025 it has grown to 31%
of the World population ....that represents an annual growth of 5% over the 225
years...
Islam has grown from only 9% of
the world population in 1801 to a hefty 25% of the world population by the year
2025....representing a growth rate of 10% over the 225 years.....
Hinduism has grown from 11% of
the world population in 1801 to 14% of the world population by the year
2025....representing a growth rate of 5% over the 225 years.....
Buddhism has gone down from 7% of
the world population in the year 1801 to only 6% of the world population in
2025 ..representing a growth rate of 3% of the world population, so it has
grown alright but it could not keep pace
with the world's overall population growth....
Islam is by far the fastest
growing religion in the world today....and from the year 1900 to the year 2000,
it has managed to increase about 4% to its population share in the world every
50 years....
12% in.
1900
16%. In
1950
21%. In.
2000
25%. In.
2025
The growth rate of Muslim
population has further accelerated by growing 4% in the last 25 years alone
while Christianity stagnated at 31%.....in fact Christianity went up to 36% of
the world's population by 1950 but came down to 31% in the year 2000 and
stagnated there even in 2025....while in the corresponding period Muslim
population increased its share by 9%.....
Another pointer is that with the
advancement of science, more and more people are losing faith in religion....
In the year 1801 only 310,000
people in the world reported themselves as non-religious.....this has grown
astronomically to over 108 crore people comprising 13% of the world population
reporting themselves as non religious in 2025.....that represents an annual
growth rate of 1548% over the last 225 years.....however the share of world
population of this group came down from 15% in the year 2000 to 13% now.....
Which are the most irreligious
countries in the world? Following is a list of the top 22 countries along with
percentage of non believers....as per Pew research....
1. Czech Republic. 76%
2. North Korea. 71%
3. Estonia. 60%
4. Japan 57%
5. China. 52%
6. South Korea. 46%
7. Latvia. 44%
8. Netherlands. 42%
9. Uruguay. 41%
10. Newzealand. 37%
11. Mongolia. 36%
12. Vietnam. 30%
13. Belarus. 29%
14. Sweden. 27%
15. Luxembourg. 27%
16. Germany. 25%
17. Australia. 24%
18. Canada. 24%
19. Cuba 23%
20. UK. 21%
21. Hungary. 19%
22. Finland. 18%
As can be seen from the above
that either they are from Communist and erstwhile communist countries or else
the highly developed countries except for Urugway....the US has 16% non-believers.....and
most surprisingly Russia too has the same number of non-believers.
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