According to recent religious projections statistics, India will have the distinction of having the highest populations of two of the three largest religions in the world—Islam and Hinduism—in the ensuing decades.
The majority of Hindus in the world already reside in India. In 2010, India was home to 94% of the world's Hindu population; this percentage is predicted to be steady through 2050 when India is forecast to house 1.3 billion Hindus. However, India is anticipated to have 311 million Muslims by 2050 (11% of the world's population), making it the nation with the biggest Muslim population. The majority of Muslims in the world are currently found in Indonesia.
Due to their youngest average age and greatest reproductive rates among the country's major religious communities, Muslims are anticipated to increase faster than Hindus. Indian Muslims' median age in 2010 was 22, whereas it was 26 for Hindus and 28 for Christians. The average number of children per Muslim woman is 3.2, compared to 2.5 for Hindus and 2.3 for Christians.
These factors will cause India's Muslim population to grow more quickly than its Hindu population, from 14.4% in 2010 to 18.4% in 2050. Hindus will still account for more than three out of every four Indians (76.7%) in 2050, besides this growth.
In fact, the combined populations of the five greatest Muslim populations in the world's largest Muslim nations—India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Bangladesh—will still be smaller than the number of Hindus in India.
There are numerous smaller religious communities in India. Christians made up about 2.5% of the country's population in 2010, including Scheduled Caste individuals (historically known as Untouchables or Dalits) who occasionally identify as Hindu on official documents. In 2050, it is anticipated that 2.2% of India's population will be Christian.
India has long seen religious strife (mostly between Muslims and Hindus, but also involving Sikhs, Christians, and other groups). The Indian subcontinent was divided into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan in the year when the nation gained independence from Britain. Despite the fact that the division was meant to reduce religious tensions, it instead sparked a wave of violence that resulted in up to a million deaths and more than 10 million displaced people.
Even Narendra Modi, the current prime leader of India, has been troubled by accusations of religious intolerance since the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat state in 2002, according to some estimates Being the head of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and the fact that the violence was committed by Hindus against Muslims have led to accusations against Modi, who was Gujarat's chief minister at the time, of not doing enough to put an end to the murders.
In comparison to 2010, it was predicted that India's Muslim population would increase by 76% by 2050. This change represented a 33 per cent change for Hindus. This prediction states that by this time, not only would the south Asian nation be home to the majority of Muslims in the world, but also to Hindus. The latter would however continue to be a minority inside the nation at 18%, with 1.3 billion Hindus leading the way by 77 per cent by 2050.
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