Pew Research Center's June 9, 2025 report on how the global religious landscape changed from 2010 to 2020, finding the global Muslim population grew 21 percent in that decade, from 1.7 billion (24 percent of world population) in 2010 to 2.0 billion (26 percent) in 2020, twice the growth rate of the rest of the world's population, driven by Muslims having more children and a younger average age than members of any other major religion.
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Pew's 2025 update to its global religion modeling, drawing on over 2,700 sources across 201 countries; its own 2010 Muslim estimate (1.7 billion, 24 percent) is a modest upward revision of the 2011 report's original 2010 estimate (1.6 billion, 23.4 percent) for the same reference year, both recorded on this axis rather than one overwriting the other, the same treatment already given to the Buddhist and Hindu figures from this same report batch. Citation
PublisherPew Research Center
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/06/09/muslim-population-change/
Source TypeDemographic study
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- Religions, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
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