{"id":15468,"date":"2017-04-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/04\/08\/hindus-will-witness-decline-in-births-after-2055-pew-study\/"},"modified":"2017-04-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-will-witness-decline-in-births-after-2055-pew-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/04\/08\/hindus-will-witness-decline-in-births-after-2055-pew-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus Will Witness Decline in Births After 2055: Pew Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckermantimes.com\/hindus-will-witness-decline-in-births-after-2055-pew\/161902\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, April 6, 2017 (Tuckerman Times): Hindus will witness a &#8220;dramatic&#8221; drop-off in births between 2055 and 2060 due to declining fertility in India, which is home to 94 per cent of the community&#8217;s global population, according to a new Pew research. The Pew Research Centre study also said that the number of babies born to Muslim women is expected to overtake those born to Christians world-wide within two decades, making Islam the world&#8217;s largest religion by 2075.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the total number of births is projected to decline steadily between 2015 and 2060 for all other major religious groups, said the study, which was released yesterday. &#8220;The drop-off in births will be especially dramatic for Hindus &#8211; who are expected to see 33 million fewer births between 2055 and 2060 than between 2010 and 2015 &#8211; due in large part to declining fertility in India, which is home to 94 per cent of the global Hindu population as of 2015,&#8221; according to the study titled &#8220;The Changing Global Religious Landscape.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED STATES, April 6, 2017 (Tuckerman Times): Hindus will witness a &#8220;dramatic&#8221; drop-off in births between 2055 and 2060,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}