{"id":65844,"date":"2017-11-29T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65844"},"modified":"2017-11-29T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T00:04:36","slug":"prc-europes-growing-muslim-population-muslims-are-projected-to-increase-as-a-share-of-europes-population-even-with-no-future-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65844","title":{"rendered":"(PRC) Europe\u2019s Growing Muslim Population&#8211;Muslims are projected to increase as a share of Europe\u2019s population&#8211;even with no future migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectionShareable\">In recent years, Europe has experienced a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2016\/08\/02\/number-of-refugees-to-europe-surges-to-record-1-3-million-in-2015\/\">record influx<\/a>\u00a0of asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries. This wave of Muslim migrants has prompted debate about immigration and security policies in numerous countries and has raised questions about the current and future number of Muslims in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">To see how the size of Europe\u2019s Muslim population may change in the coming decades, Pew Research Center has modeled three scenarios that vary depending on future levels of migration. These are not efforts to\u00a0<em>predict<\/em>\u00a0what will happen in the future, but rather a set of\u00a0<em>projections<\/em>\u00a0about what could happen under different circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The baseline for all three scenarios is the Muslim population in Europe (defined here as the 28 countries presently in the European Union, plus Norway and\u00a0Switzerland) as of mid-2016, estimated at 25.8 million (4.9% of the overall population) \u2013 up from\u00a019.5 million (3.8%) in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2017\/11\/29\/europes-growing-muslim-population\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, Europe has experienced a\u00a0record influx\u00a0of asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries. This wave of Muslim migrants has prompted debate about immigration and security policies in numerous countries and has raised questions about<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65844\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,147,426,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-immigration","category-islam","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65846,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65844\/revisions\/65846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}