India will surpass Indonesia because the country has the largest Muslim population…Hindus will become…
The report shows that about 80% of India are Hindus and 15% are Muslims.
India’s population has more than tripled in the six decades after independence. In the 1951 census, 3.61 billion people exceeded 1.2 billion in 2011, and consisted of several religions, mainly Hindus. The report shows that about 80% of people in India are Hindus and 15% of those living in India are Muslims. But India will surpass Indonesia as the country with the largest number of Muslims, according to a report from the Pew Research Center, a US think tank. It added that at that time, Hindus would become the third largest population in the world. India is expected to have 311 million Muslims (11% of the world’s total) by 2050, the largest Muslim population in the world. Currently, Indonesia has the largest number of Muslims in the world.
India is already home to most Hindus in the world. In 2010, 94% of the world’s Hindus lived in India. This will remain true when 1.3 billion Hindus are expected to be expected to live in the country by 2050. India will continue to be a multicultural and multi-religious country, with followers of various religions showing unity and peace in diversity.
Muslims grow faster than Hindus
This is because Muslims are the youngest in the median age and have the highest fertility rate among the major religious groups in India. In 2010, the median age of Indian Muslims was 22 years old, while the age of Hindus was 26, and the age of Christians was 28. Similarly, Muslim women have an average of 3.2 children per woman, compared with 2.5 for Hindus and 2.3 for Christians.
Due to these factors, the expansion of Muslim communities in India will be faster than the Hindu population, rising from 14.4% in 2010 to 18.4% in 2050. But even with this growth, Hindus accounts for more than three-thirds of Indians (76.7%) in 2050.
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