Muslims may become America’s second-largest religious group by 2040: Report

NEW YORK, Jan 4 (APP):Muslims are expected to become the second-largest religious group in the United States after Christians by 2040, according to a new report.
There were 3.45 millions Muslims living in the US in 2017 representing about 1.1 percent of the total population of 300.1 million, a study by Pew Research Center found.
At present, the number of Jewish people outnumber Muslims as the second-largest religious group but that is expected to change by 2040 because “the US Muslim population will grow much faster than the country’s Jewish population”, the report said.
The number of followers of Islam in the US has grown at a rate of about 100,000 per year because of the migration of Muslims and higher fertility rates among Muslim Americans, Pew Center found during its demographic and survey research.
“Since our first estimate [2007] of the size of the Muslim American population, the number of US Muslims has been growing rapidly,” it said.
Christianity is by far the largest religion in the United States with different denominations representing about 71 percent of the population.
Coming up with a detailed account of how many Muslim people live in the U.S. is difficult, because the Census Bureau does not ask questions about religion. However, based on Pew’s demographic research and survey results, they estimate that about 1.1 percent of the total U.S. population is Muslim.
In 2007, there were approximately 2.35 million Muslims living in the U.S. According to Pew’s projections, the Muslim population is growing much faster than the country’s Jewish population, and by 2050, the U.S. Muslim population will reach 8.1 million, or 2.1 percent of the nation’s total population that’s twice their representation today. In fact, the U.S. Muslim population increases at about 100,000 people every year.
This increase isn’t due to religious conversions, because about as many Americans convert to Islam as those who leave Islam, the study shows.
“Indeed, while about one-in-five American Muslim adults were raised in a different faith tradition and converted to Islam, a similar share of Americans who were raised Muslim now no longer identify with the faith,” the study read.