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Muslims in the world growing exponentially

statistical data of the study conducted by Pew in Washington

N and the next two decades the number of Muslims in the world could come to constitute one quarter of the population of the planet This is one of the leading figures of the recent statistical research conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington, the United States.

According to the study entitled "The Future of the Global Muslim Population" and published on the site of the Pew network in recent days, the number of Muslims could rise by 35 percent over the next twenty years, bringing The total of this population from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion in 2030 likely.

The rate of increase of the population is Muslim, according to the U.S. institution, than the rest of the world population. While non-Muslims have an average increase of 0.7 percent per year, the group of Muslims is growing at a rate equal to more than double the 1.5 per cent.

If this level of growth will continue unchanged, Muslims constitute 26.4 per cent of world population in the year 2030 calculated at 8.3 billion. This shows the progress compared to data available in 2010 when there was that Muslims make up 23.4 percent of the world population of 6.9 billion people.

Although the main figures show the growth of Muslims at a rate double the rest of the world population, the Pew report points out that the rate of increase of the population is Muslim, however, slowed compared with earlier periods. From 1990 to 2010 the average annual growth of the Muslim population was 2.2 per cent, and well above the projections for the period 2010-2030 where it is expected an average rate of increase of the Muslims of 1, 5 percent.

Sharing the Muslim population of the main geographical areas, the statistics published by the Pew estimates indicate that in 2030 six out of ten Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region and that Pakistan will become a Muslim nation with the largest number of Muslim population overtaking Indonesia as the current holder of the record.

Another overtaking will occur in Africa where Muslims living in Nigeria by 2030 will become more numerous than those of Egypt. In Europe, the U.S. institution that provides for the Muslim population will have a more gradual increase from the current 44.1 million inhabitants today, representing 6 percent of the total population to 58.2 million in 2030, equal to about ' 8 per cent.

By focusing on individual European countries, the Pew in Washington that the percentage the Muslim population will increase from 6 percent to 10.2 percent in 2030. A somewhat smaller increase is expected instead to France, where the percentage of Muslims will rise from 7.5 percent to 10.3 percent two decades later.

(© L'Osservatore Romano - January 28, 2011)