New Report Finds Percentage of Christians In U.S. Declining; Unaffiliateds Increase

The Pew Research Center today released a new report titled America's Changing Religious Landscape. The report finds that Christians have declined from 78.4% to 70.8% of the population between 2007 and 2014.  In the same period, the unaffiliated have increased from 16.1% to 22.8%. Non-Christian faiths are up from 4.7% to 5.9% of the population.

Study of Projected World Religion Population Growth Shows Muslims Will Almost Equal Christians By 2050

The Pew Forum last week released a study titled The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050. The study shows that Muslims are the only major religious group projected to increase at a faster rate than the wold population as a whole.  According to the report:

by 2050 there will be near parity between Muslims (2.8 billion, or 30% of the population) and Christians (2.9 billion, or 31%), possibly for the first time in history.

Buddhists are the only major religious group that is projected to have a decline in absolute numbers by 2050