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The Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at [[Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary]] estimated that agnostics made up 9.5% of the global population in 2015. CSGC projects that agnosticism will be 8.71% of the global population in 2025 and 7.19% of the global population in in 2050.<ref>[http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/2015-01/2015-01-029-table.html Status of Global Christianity, 2015, in the Context of 1900–2050 ]</ref>
The Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at [[Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary]] estimated that agnostics made up 9.5% of the global population in 2015. CSGC projects that agnosticism will be 8.71% of the global population in 2025 and 7.19% of the global population in in 2050.<ref>[http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/2015-01/2015-01-029-table.html Status of Global Christianity, 2015, in the Context of 1900–2050 ]</ref>
The agnostic [[Eric Kaufmann]] is a professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London and author. His academic research specialty is how [[demography|demographic]] changes affect religion/irreligion and politics.
Kaufmann wrote in 2010:
{{cquote|Worldwide, the [[Desecularization|march of religion]] can probably only be reversed by a renewed, self-aware secularism. Today, it appears exhausted and lacking in confidence... Secularism's greatest triumphs owe less to science than to popular social movements like nationalism, [[socialism]] and 1960s anarchist-[[liberalism]]. Ironically, secularism's demographic deficit means that it will probably only succeed in the twenty-first century if it can create a secular form of 'religious' enthusiasm." <ref>[http://www.sneps.net/uploadsepk/JQR%20Demography.pdf Shall the religious inherit the earth? - Eric Kaufmann]</ref>}}
=== Frequency in Western World Countries ===
=== Frequency in Western World Countries ===