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By 2040, Muslims predicted to outnumber Jews in the US
Some 100,000 Muslims join American population each year, concentrated largely in coastal states, while Jewish growth projected to taper off
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By 2040, Muslims predicted to outnumber Jews in the US
Some 100,000 Muslims join American population each year, concentrated largely in coastal states, while Jewish growth projected to taper off
www.timesofisrael.com
By 2040, Muslims predicted to outnumber Jews in the US
Some 100,000 Muslims join American population each year, concentrated largely in coastal states, while Jewish growth projected to taper off
By TOI STAFF7 January 2018, 11:05 amIllustrative: An American Muslim man standing next to an American Jewish man. (Adam Berry/Getty Images/via JTA)
Muslims will replace Jews as the United States’s second-largest religious group by 2040, according to projections by the Pew Research Center.
While there is no official count of either religious group since the US Census doesn’t ask Americans about their religion, private surveys of the American population allow researchers to estimate the numbers of Americans who identify with each group.
Muslims currently make up some 3.45 million people living in the US, or about 1.1 percent of the total population, while a major Pew study last year suggested some 6.7 million Americans, or 2.1% of the population, identify as Jews.
Muslims will replace Jews as the United States’s second-largest religious group by 2040, according to projections by the Pew Research Center.
While there is no official count of either religious group since the US Census doesn’t ask Americans about their religion, private surveys of the American population allow researchers to estimate the numbers of Americans who identify with each group.
Muslims currently make up some 3.45 million people living in the US, or about 1.1 percent of the total population, while a major Pew study last year suggested some 6.7 million Americans, or 2.1% of the population, identify as Jews.
But that gap is unlikely to last, the group said in a statement Wednesday, explaining that “our projections suggest that the US Muslim population will grow much faster than the country’s Jewish population.”
The Muslim share in the overall US population has grown quickly, from 0.4% of all Americans in 2007 to 0.9% in 2014, according to a previous 2014 study by Pew. Jews’ share grew too, but more slowly, from 1.7% to 1.9% in the same period.
Muslims will replace Jews as the United States’s second-largest religious group by 2040, according to projections by the Pew Research Center.
While there is no official count of either religious group since the US Census doesn’t ask Americans about their religion, private surveys of the American population allow researchers to estimate the numbers of Americans who identify with each group.
Muslims currently make up some 3.45 million people living in the US, or about 1.1 percent of the total population, while a major Pew study last year suggested some 6.7 million Americans, or 2.1% of the population, identify as Jews.
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But that gap is unlikely to last, the group said in a statement Wednesday, explaining that “our projections suggest that the US Muslim population will grow much faster than the country’s Jewish population.”
The Muslim share in the overall US population has grown quickly, from 0.4% of all Americans in 2007 to 0.9% in 2014, according to a previous 2014 study by Pew. Jews’ share grew too, but more slowly, from 1.7% to 1.9% in the same period.
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The fastest-growing religious identity in the US is “unaffiliated,” which grew by 6.7 percentage points in just seven years, from 2007 to 2014, from 16.1% to 22.8%.
Christians, meanwhile, declined by 7.8 points, from 78.4% of the US population to 70.6% in those years. The decline is sure to continue, as older Americans are far more likely to identify as Christian (85% of those born before 1945) than younger Americans (57% of those born in the 1980s).
Similarly, just 4% of Americans born before 1945 identified with a non-Christian religion, including Jews, Muslims and Hindus — a figure that jumps to 8% among those born since 1981.
The Jewish population appears likely to go the way of Christians in the country, Pew’s surveys in recent years suggest. Overall, according to the 2014 survey, the American Jewish population is expected to grow slowly until roughly 2030, after which it will begin to shrink due to low birthrates and changing religious identification.
Democrats are all about poll numbers and the manipulation of democracy. Which group must they represent them most to get the votes. After all, they are all about identity politics, which is why they let about 8 million illegals into the US every year or so, in order to "get out the vote".
But in addition to these grim numbers of Jewish political decline, about half of American Jews don't even seem to care about Israel or their faith, which I think is why the DNC is turning on Israel and Jews in general instead of waiting till 2040 when there will be more Muslims in the US.
