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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

That is 5.84 million of them per year. At that rate, Islam is dying a slow death.

There are various estimates of how many Muslims there are in the world, but let’s say for the purpose of this discussion 1 billion, which is kind of in the middle.

5.84 million divided by 1 billion is 0.00584 percent, or 5.84 per thousand (please correct my math if I have dropped a decimal).

Using the CIA World Factbook as a reference, Nigeria has a birth rate of 40.2 / 1,000 (not all Muslims, to be sure). Iran’s birth rate is 16.57 / 1,000, Iraq’s 41.44 and Saudi Arabia’s 29.1 / 1,000. (Just for comparison, Canada’s is 10.74, that of the USA 14.16 and that of the UK 10.67.)


Even if the 16K/day is in Africa alone and even recognizing that those are just some of the Islamic nations, it's unlikely that the religion as a whole is 'dying a slow death'. It's growing at a fairly substantial rate in terms of the numbers of adherents.