What the world's religious landscape will look like in 2050
Mapped: What the world's religious landscape will look like in 2050 Christianity will remain the world's top religion despite the growth of Islam and atheism ... Islam is the world's fastest growing religion but despite the increasing numbers, Christians will still outnumber Muslims in 2050, a new report has found. Religion, despite its decline in the West as the map above shows, is proliferating across the world - by 2050, Muslims will make up 10 per cent of Europe 's population. By 2100, Muslims will outnumber Christians globally, Pew believe. "By the year 2100, about 1 per cent more of the world’s population would be Muslim (35 per cent) than Christian (34 per cent)," the authors wrote. According to the Pew Research Centre, the religiously unaffiliated - referring to atheists, agnostics and other people who do not identify with a religion - are declining as a share of the population. In the map above, readers can...