Muslim population to double in US, UK by 2030 – Pew

Muslim populations around the world will grow by 25% in the next two decades, with the number more than doubling, from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in the United States, according to new research by the US-based Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. This is the second time that Pew have studied […]

Muslim populations around the world will grow by 25% in the next two decades, with the number more than doubling, from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in the United States, according to new research by the US-based Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
This is the second time that Pew have studied global Muslim populations before – we wrote about it last year.
The data is very detailed – it shows population by country, and Muslim populations as the percentage of each country’s population.
The key findings of the Pew research are:
• If current trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4% of the world’s total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030, up from 23.4% of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion
• From 1990 to 2010, the global Muslim population increased at an average annual rate of 2.2%, compared with the projected rate of 1.5% for the period from 2010 to 2030
• 79 countries will have a million or more Muslim inhabitants in 2030, up from 72 countries today
• In the US the population projections show the number of Muslims more than doubling over the next two decades, rising from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030
• In Europe, the Muslim share of the population is expected to grow by nearly one-third over the next 20 years, rising from 6% of the region’s inhabitants in 2010 to 8% in 2030
• The UK’s Muslim population is set to rise from 2.9 million now to 5.6 million in 2030 – up from 2% of the UK population to 4.6%.