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by mighmi
1060 days ago
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> largest branch of the Abrahamic family tree, namely Islam The number of all Muslims only surpassed members of the Catholic church around 2008. There are still substantially more Christians as a whole, including Orthodox and Protestants. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23885015 Based on current population growth, in the next 10 years, there should be more Muslims than Christians. From wikipedia's chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth#Histo...
- 1970: 577mm
- 2000: 1.291b
- 2013: 1.635b
- 2016: 1.8b
- 2020: 2b For comparison, the Catholic church currently has 1.36b members, and Christians overall are estimated at 2.3 billion. |
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