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Europe is presently experiencing countervailing [[desecularization]] forces through: religious immigrants ho have higher fertility rates than moderately relgious and the sub-replacement level of fertility of the irreligious in many European countries. This trend is expected to continue and the secular population is projected to plateau by 2050, or as early as 2021 (see also: [[Growth of global desecularization]]).

Europe is presently experiencing countervailing [[desecularization]] forces through: religious immigrants ho have higher fertility rates than moderately relgious and the sub-replacement level of fertility of the irreligious in many European countries. This trend is expected to continue and the secular population is projected to plateau by 2050, or as early as 2021 (see also: [[Growth of global desecularization]]).

"Committed religious populations are growing in the West, and will reverse the march of secularism before 2050."

[[Eric Kaufmann]] is a professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London and author. His academic research specialty is how demographic changes affect religion/irreligion and politics, indicates, "Committed religious populations are growing in the West, and will reverse the march of secularism before 2050." Kaufmann also declared "Religious [[fundamentalism]] is going to be on the increase in the future and not just out there in the developing world..., but in the developed world as well."  

 

"Religious [[fundamentalism]] is going to be on the increase in the future and not just out there in the developing world..., but in the developed world as well."  

== European drop as a percentage of the world's population  ==

== European drop as a percentage of the world's population  ==