The map above shows which religion is the fastest growing in each country around the world based on data from Pew Research Center's The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050. In 2010, 11% of the world’s population was at least 60, but 20% of followers of the Jewish faith were 60 or older. The country's Hindu population grew 34 percent in five years, according to the Ireland census, conducted in April 2016 by its Central Statistics Office (CSO) and released on April 6 this year. Countries With The Largest Hindu Populations. About 34% of India's population now lives in urban areas, the U.N. World Urbanization Prospects 2018 report has said. This compares with average world population growth rate of 1.2% per year for the referenced period. On this episode of SIMPLE समाचार, we discuss the reality behind growing Muslim population in India. Hindus are never worried about anything. As of 2010, there were about 1 billion Hindus around the world, representing 15% of the global population. This is way higher than the population increase of all the other religions combined. This increase will roughly keep pace with overall population growth. Hindu leaders in the U.S. also realize there is a much greater need for outreach in a country where Hinduism is not ingrained in the culture, said Anant Rambachan, chair of the Religion Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. With percentage, Nepal has the largest percentage of Hindu population in the world followed by India and Mauritius. In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion. This is an increase of about three percentage points since the … The second scenario we have looked at is where the growth rate of the Hindu population doesn’t fall like it did during 2001-11. All the religions are given a percentage in the following circle. India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia. India to have largest Muslim population by 2050, says Pew report; India to have largest Muslim population by 2050, says Pew report The Muslim population in India will rise faster than any other religious group, increasing from 14.4 per cent to 18.4 per cent. Hinduism is a compilation of many traditions and philosophies and is considered by many scholars to be the world’s oldest religion, dating back more than 4,000 years. Countering perception that the population of Hindus in Bangladesh was declining, the government on Thursday quoted official records of that country to state that it … Islam grew by 29% in the same period. India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia. In the coming decades, India will have the distinction of having the largest populations of two of the three largest religions in the world – Islam and Hinduism – according to new religious projections data from Pew Research Center.. India is already home to most of the world’s Hindus. Which is the world's fastest-growing major religion? Nepal (81.3%) and India (79.8%) are countries with Hindus being the majority of their respective populations. ... Muslims make up the only major religious group projected to increase faster than the world’s population as a whole.