{"id":424,"date":"2025-06-10T20:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/muslim-population-grew-fastest-from-2010-20-amid-steady-rise-in-jews-to-pre-holocaust-levels-report\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:26:53","slug":"muslim-population-grew-fastest-from-2010-20-amid-steady-rise-in-jews-to-pre-holocaust-levels-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/muslim-population-grew-fastest-from-2010-20-amid-steady-rise-in-jews-to-pre-holocaust-levels-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim population &#8216;grew fastest&#8217; from 2010-20, amid &#8216;steady&#8217; rise in Jews to pre-Holocaust levels: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A new report released on Monday studying the religious makeup of the world, has found that the global Muslim population grew the fastest, in line with a rise in the world&rsquo;s population from 2010-2020.<\/p>\n<p>This comes despite the Christians (all denominations included) growing by 121.6 million to form 28.8 per cent of the world&rsquo;s population, because the Muslim population was relatively the &ldquo;fastest-growing&rdquo;&mdash;rising to occupy 25.6 per cent of the world&rsquo;s population.<\/p>\n<p>The new report by the Pew Research Center, titled &lsquo;How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020&rsquo;, aggregates more than 2,700 sources of data, &ldquo;including national censuses, large-scale demographic surveys, general population surveys and population registers&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that while the Hindu population remained more or less steady at 14.9 per cent, Buddhism has seen a serious decline by 0.8 percentage points, just behind Christianity, which dropped by 1.8 percentage points, and has the &ldquo;highest ratios of people leaving to people joining &ndash; the largest net losses&rdquo;, as per a separate Pew report.<\/p>\n<p>Another intriguing aspect of the report was the sharp rise in the religiously unaffiliated, also called &ldquo;nones&rdquo;, who grew by 270 million, now occupying 24.2 per cent of the world&rsquo;s population. The study labels them as &ldquo;the only category aside from Muslims that grew as a percentage of the world&rsquo;s population&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Jewish population and the Holocaust<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The other two categories are the Jewish population as well as a combination of other religions in the world occupying 0.2 per cent and 2.2 per cent of the world&rsquo;s population respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to Israeli demographer Sergio Della Pergola, nearly 80 years after the Holocaust (in 2020), the global Jewish population of 14.78 million had still not reached its pre-World War II level of roughly 16.6 million (in 1939), a <em>Times of Israel<\/em> article said.<\/p>\n<p>He has also released post-2020 Israeli population figures, upto January 1, 2024, as per which the Jewish population had seen a general increase of about a 100,000 per year, coming up to 15.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It will mark a historic moment,&rdquo; he said, referring to when the Jewish population matches and\/or overtakes pre-Holocaust levels. However, he has also pointed out that his classification of a &ldquo;Jew&rdquo; differed from that used by Pew.<\/p>\n<p>Within the next decade, the demographer projects that half of the world&rsquo;s Jewish population will reside in Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Muslim population &lsquo;grew fastest&rsquo; from 2010-20, amid &lsquo;steady&rsquo; rise in Jews to pre-Holocaust levels: Report<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report released on Monday studying the religious makeup of the world, has found that the global Muslim population grew the fastest, in line with a rise in the world&rsquo;s population from 2010-2020. This comes despite the Christians (all denominations included) growing by 121.6 million to form 28.8 per cent of the world&rsquo;s population,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/muslim-population-grew-fastest-from-2010-20-amid-steady-rise-in-jews-to-pre-holocaust-levels-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Muslim population &#8216;grew fastest&#8217; from 2010-20, amid &#8216;steady&#8217; rise in Jews to pre-Holocaust levels: Report&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}