Islam
According to
Guinness Book of World Records,
Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion by number of
conversions each year:
Although the religion began in Arabia, by 2002 80% of all believers in Islam lived outside the Arab world. In the period 1990-2000, approximately 12.5 million more people converted to Islam than to Christianity” (Guinness World Records 2003, pg 102).
[26] In
1990, 935 million people were Muslims and this figure had risen to around 1.2 billion by the year
2000, meaning that around this time one in five people were followers of Islam. According to the
BBC, a comprehensive American study concluded in
2009 the number stood at 1 in 4 with 60% of Muslims spread all over the
Asian continent:
A report from an American think-tank has estimated 1.57 billion Muslims populate the world - with 60% in Asia.
[27][28] The report was done by the
Pew Forum Research Centre.
[28] The forum also projected that in 2010 out of the total number of Muslims in the world 62.1% will live in Asia.
[27] However the report also included a statement saying
While the global Muslim population is expected to grow at a faster rate than the non-Muslim population, the Muslim population nevertheless is expected to grow at a slower pace in the next two decades than it did in the previous two decades. From 1990 to 2010, the global Muslim population increased at an average annual rate of 2.2%, compared with the projected rate of 1.5% for the period from 2010 to 2030.
[27] The report also made reference to the fact that Muslims are estimated to make up 23.4% of the total global population in 2010 (out of a total of 6.9 billion people) and that by 2030 Muslims will represent about 26.4% of the global population (out of a total of 8.9 billion people).
