religious change

A changing population in Norway

We used world population data from the United Nations to create this population pyramid of Norway from 1950 projected to 2100. Our key takeaways?   This animation visualizes the “demographic transition” predicted to occur this century.  Demographic transition is the shift from high fertility & mortality to low fertility & mortality. That is: people will live longer …

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Forging new directions in the demographics of religion

Written by Jessie Saeli, edited by Nicole R. Smith and Rachel J. Bacon Modeling Religious Change combines demography, the scientific study of religion, and computational models to create simulations of religious change in the USA, Norway, and India. Our research tackles the challenge of creating more accurate projections of religious change in populations by taking account of multiple dimensions of religiosity. Building on our previous projects and traditional methods of creating …

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Can we measure (and predict) religious change?

Written by Jessie Saeli, edited by Nicole R. Smith and Rachel J. Bacon We can’t predict the future, but we want to get closer The year is 2050. Although millions of Europeans and North Americans have abandoned Christianity and become nonreligious, the share of nonreligious people worldwide has decreased in comparison to increases in Christian, Muslim, and Hindu populations. …

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