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| − | === Eric Kaufman on global atheism as a percentage of the world's population ===
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| − | [[File:Birkbeck College London.jpg|left|thumbnail|250px|[[Eric Kaufmann]], a professor at [[Birkbeck College, University of London]] whose work focuses on how demographic changes affects religion/politics, points out that that the atheist population has a sub-replacement fertility rate while religious [[fundamentalism|fundamentalists]] have high rates of birth (See: [[Atheism and fertility rates]]). .<ref>
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| − | *[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Eric Kaufmann, Belfer Center, Harvard University/Birkbeck College, University of London]
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| − | *[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2011/05/eric-kaufmann-shall-religious-inherit.html Eric Kaufmann: Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?]
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| − | *[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/search/label/atheist%20demographics Eric Kaufmann's Atheist Demographic series]
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| − | *[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, Australian Broadcasting Corporation]</ref> ]]
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| − | On December 23, 2012, Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] who teaches at Birbeck College, University of London and whose academic research specialty is how [[demography|demographic]] changes affect religion/irreligion and politics, wrote:
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| − | {{cquote|I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious.
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| − | On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low fertility and a rapidly aging population... In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British.
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| − | <ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/04/97-of-worlds-population-growth-is.html 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious], Tuesday, April 30, 2013</ref>}}
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| | === Win-Gallup International statistics on global atheism === | | === Win-Gallup International statistics on global atheism === |