Analyst Ömer Taspinar, writing for the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution, estimates that the Muslim birth rate in Europe is three times higher than the non-Muslim one, and that Europes Muslim population currently is growing by more than one million each year. If current trends continue, the Muslim population of Europe will nearly double by 2015, while the non-Muslim population will shrink by 3.5 percent. According to the Migration Policy Institute, which is also based in Washington, at least 20 percent of Europes total population will be Muslim by 2050 (this figure would jump to well over 50 percent if Turkey joins the EU.)
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:59:04 +0000