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Muslims in US: A new study has been conducted in the United States of America, aimed at ascertaining the religious classification of the population and the their geographical distribution. The study, known as the Religious Landscape Study (RLS), conducted by the Pew Research Center highlights the religious character of America. The unique study shows the population distribution of America including the details of its religious identity, population distribution and age groups. Here is all the information you need to know about the survey and how it has depicted the religion based people-count in the United States.
The Religious Landscape Study (RLS) is the largest single survey the Pew Research Center conducts. The aim of the study is to provide figures about the size of US religious groups because the US census does not collect any such religion based information.
One of the most talked about point from the Religious Landscape Study (RLS) is that 62 percent of the US population still follows Christianity. Notably, the population of Christians is on a decline in the United States and it has shown a 9 percentage points decline since 2014. Also, when compared to the population from 2007, a huge 16-point decrease can be observed in the same.
Talking about the Muslim population in the United States, the study has reported that adult Muslims make up 1 percent of the total US population and most importantly, 42 percent of the Muslim population is age between 30-49 years. Last but not the least, the RLS study has indicated that 1 percent of the US population is adult Hindu.
“The first RLS, fielded in 2007, found that 78% of U.S. adults identified as Christians of one sort or another. That number ticked steadily downward in our smaller surveys each year and was pegged at 71% in the second RLS, conducted in 2014.
The latest RLS, fielded over seven months in 2023-24, finds that 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christians. That is a decline of 9 percentage points since 2014 and a 16-point drop since 2007. But for the last five years, between 2019 and 2024, the Christian share of the adult population has been relatively stable, hovering between 60% and 64%. The 62% figure in the new Religious Landscape Study is smack in the middle of that recent range” as per the official website of Pew Research Centre.
