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== Secular Europe and its countries aging populations == | == Secular Europe and its countries aging populations == | ||
| − | As far as [[secular Europe]], in 2014, the Pew Research Forum indicated that Europe will go from 11% of the world's population to 7% of the world's population by 2050. This is due to secular populations having sub-replacement fertility rates.<ref name=leake>Leake, Jonathan (January 2, 2011). [http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Society/article496716.ece "Atheists a dying breed as nature 'favours faithful'"]. London Times website.</ref | + | As far as [[secular Europe]], in 2014, the Pew Research Forum indicated that Europe will go from 11% of the world's population to 7% of the world's population by 2050. This is due to secular populations having sub-replacement fertility rates.<ref name=leake>Leake, Jonathan (January 2, 2011). [http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Society/article496716.ece "Atheists a dying breed as nature 'favours faithful'"]. London Times website.</ref> |
Europe's aging population is a serious issue and it will stress its various pension systems.<ref>[https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/julyaugust-2004/cover-story-the-looming-pensions-crisis Looming pension crisis]</ref> | Europe's aging population is a serious issue and it will stress its various pension systems.<ref>[https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/julyaugust-2004/cover-story-the-looming-pensions-crisis Looming pension crisis]</ref> | ||
Revision as of 18:27, June 16, 2016
The current global atheist population mostly resides in East Asia (particularly China) and in secular Europe/Australia primarily among whites.[1] See: Asian atheism and European atheism and 21st century decline and Western atheism and race
Global atheism is facing significant challenges in terms of its aging populations.
China's aging population
China has the largest atheists population in the world (see: Atheist population). The Chinese population is rapidly aging, due to a lower mortality rate and its former one child policy. This will lead to a pension problem for the Chinese government.[2] See: Asian atheism
Like most religious conservatives within Abrahamic religions, Evangelical Christians do have higher than replacement levels of births (see: Desecularization). China's demographics in terms of the age of its population due to the rapid growth of evangelical Christianity in China (see: Growth of Christianity in China).
Secular Europe and its countries aging populations
As far as secular Europe, in 2014, the Pew Research Forum indicated that Europe will go from 11% of the world's population to 7% of the world's population by 2050. This is due to secular populations having sub-replacement fertility rates.[3]
Europe's aging population is a serious issue and it will stress its various pension systems.[4]
- ↑ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live, By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey, Washington Post, May 23, 2013
- ↑ China's aging population
- ↑ Leake, Jonathan (January 2, 2011). "Atheists a dying breed as nature 'favours faithful'". London Times website.
- ↑ Looming pension crisis