Canadian Muslim population to reach 6.5 per cent of population by 2030
Posted Jan 27, 2011 04:16:39 AM.
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WASHINGTON – Canada’s Muslim community is expected to grow to 6.6 per cent of the population by the year 2030, compared to 2.8 per cent last year.
That’s according to a report released today by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life.
It says Muslims in Canada numbered 313,000 in 1990, or 1.1 per cent of the population. Last year, the number had grown to 940,000, or 2.8 per cent.
The Centre says by 2030, Canada will be home to more than 2.6 million Muslims.
It also says the world’s Muslim population is expected to grow by about 35 per cent by 2030, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion.
Over the next two decades, the worldwide Muslim population is forecast to grow at about twice the rate of the non-Muslim population — an average annual growth rate of 1.5 per cent for Muslims compared with 0.7 per cent for non-Muslims.
If current trends continue, says the Centre, Muslims will make up 26.4 per cent of the world’s total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030, up from 23.4 per cent of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.
The full report, which includes an executive summary, interactive maps and sortable data tables, is available on the Pew Forum’s website.
