This change reflects the effect of religious freedom, personal thinking and modern lifestyle.
Most loss to Christianity
➤ According to the report, the most conversion in Christianity has caused damage.
➤ Out of every 100 Christians, 17.1 people renounce religion
➤ At the same time only 5.5% adopted Christianity
➤ In this way Christianity suffered a net loss of 11.6%
Buddhist retention rate
The activities of conversion were seen more in Buddhism:
➤ 22.1 out of 100 left religion
➤ Only 12.3% adopted Buddhism
Pure loss was 9.8%With a retention rate of 78%, this religion was the weakest in maintaining its followers.
The most benefited was given to the religiously unrelated class:
➤ 24.2% people declared themselves unconfirmed except for any religion
➤ Only 7.5% of the people abandoned unrelaudes and adopted a religion
➤ Pure profit was 16.7%
Stability in Muslim and Hinduism
➤ The rate of conversion in Muslim and Hindu religions has been quite stable.
➤ The number of people adopting and abandoning religion is almost equal
➤ These religions neither gained great benefit, nor any special loss
➤ This is a sign of social commitment to their strong family structures and religious traditions.
Which countries have the highest conversion?According to the Pew report, the trend of conversion is directly related to HDi of countries:
कार 18% of adults left childhood religion in high HDI countries (eg America, Canada, European country)
➤ Only 3% did this in low HDi countries (eg Africa, South Asia)
➤ This may be the reason – more education, independent thinking, lack of religious pressure and freedom of expression.