The growth of the global Christian population is projected to be about the same rate as overall global population growth between 2010-2050.But what is less well known is that the five leading economies of 2050 are projected to represent one of the most religiously diverse groupings in recent memory.īelow are the main takeaways of global religious and economic change, ordered by the projected size of religious groups in 2050. The economic transformations of China and India are common knowledge. The growth of religious populations also has implications for how the world’s wealth will be spread about. In terms of population shares, this is significantly lower than the peak in the 1970s under communism when nearly one in five people worldwide were religiously unaffiliated, according to the World Religion Database. By contrast, the number of people unaffiliated with any religion (including those who say their religion is “nothing in particular” as well as self-identifying agnostics and atheists) is projected to increase by only 0.1 billion, from 1.13 billion in 2010 to 1.23 billion in 2050. By the middle of this century, the number of people affiliated with a religion is expected to grow by 2.3 billion, from 5.8 billion in 2010 to 8.1 billion in 2050. The impact of religion is on the rise on a global scale. The other mega economies in 2050 are projected to include a country with a Hindu majority (India), a Muslim majority (Indonesia), and two with exceptionally high levels of religious diversity (China and Japan).Īs religious diversity and religious populations grow, so does their potential impact, creating new challenges and opportunities for societies, governments and economies. But by 2050 only one of the leading economies is projected to have a majority Christian population – the United States. Today, seven of the G8 nations have Christian-majority populations. The report Changing religion, changing economies, which draws on a 2015 global study published in Demographic Research and its connected Pew Research Center report, has profound implications for the global economy.
According to recent research, the growth of religious populations worldwide is projected to be 23 times larger than the growth of the unreligious between 20. Reports of the death of organized religion have been exaggerated.
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