Tag: Pew Research Center

India’s caste system is a social hierarchy that can dictate class and social life, including whom a person can marry. Today, regardless of their religion, Indians nearly universally identify with a caste category.

THE question of how many Jewish Americans there are does not have a simple answer. That’s because the number of Jews in the U.S. depends on how one defines a Jew, as explained in the Pew Research Center’s major new survey of Jewish Americans.

THE number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a fast pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling.

ALMOST half of the Christian population in the world lives in the 10 countries with the largest number of Christians, a new report released by the Pew Research Center said.

ACCORDING to Pew Research, the Muslim share of the US population (adults and children) is projected to grow from 0.8% in 2010 to 1.7% in 2030. The rise will make Muslims roughly as numerous as Jews or Episcopalians are in the United States today.

PAKISTAN is expected to surpass Indonesia as the country with the single largest Muslim population even as the world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years.

ONE in five Muslims in Egypt and Jordan support suicide bombing in defense of Islam, while 15% of Indonesian Muslims subscribe to the view that suicide bombing is alright.

PEW Research Center researchers have made projections that the world’s Muslim population could increase by about 35 per cent over the next two decades.