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Predictions about The Future of World Religions in 2050, and comparing with the year 2010

Pew Research Center has released a report on "The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050" on April 02, 2015. The report predicted that the future of the world religions will change demographically. The fertility rate, youth population, stabilization programmes and other factors were kept in mind while preparing the report. Some of the salient points about the projections: The Muslims will reach near the populations of Christians in the world in the year 2050. The Hindus will constitute the fourth largest population group in the world, preceded by the Unaffiliated (Nastiks? ).  The share of Jews in the USA population will be outnumbered by the Muslims population. The India will have more Muslim population than the population of Muslims in the Indonesia, and thus have the largest Muslim population than any country in the world.  Countries with Buddhist population will witness a stability in the growth of the population, and thus overall t