PM-EAC Report on Share of Religious Minorities
Source: The Hindu
GS I: Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India
Overview
- News in Brief
- Key Facts in the report
- Global Scenario
- India in the Report
Why in the News?
A new analysis by Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (PM-EAC) has shown, suggesting a ‘conducive environment’ for increasing diversity
News in Brief
- The PM-EAC report titled ‘Share of Religious Minorities: A cross country analysis’ studied data on religious composition of populations for 167 countries.
- The dipping majority population and rising minority population in India was in line with global trends, also seen in Europe, but stood out among India’s neighbours.
- The analysis relied on the Religious Characteristics of States Dataset 2017 to track religious composition across countries.
Key Facts in the report
Global Scenario
- This paper provides a detailed cross-country descriptive analysis of the status of minorities around the world measured in terms of their changing share in a country’s population over 65 years between 1950 and 2015.
- Analysis countries: 167 countries
- Majority Religious Denomination
- The average value for the share of the majority religious denomination in the baseline year of 1950 is 75 per cent.
- Globally the share of the majority religious denomination has gone down by approximately 22 percent.
- OECD Countries
- Data was collected on the religious demographics of 38 OECD countries.
- 30 of these countries experienced a significant decrease in the proportion of Roman Catholics, the predominant religious group.
- The decline of the majority religious population was steeper in OECD countries, with an average decline of 29%.
- South Asian Region
- The majority religious group is increasing.
- Data shows a decline in the Minority population.
- Minority decline scene is seen in countries like Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
India in the Report
- Paper strikingly claimed that for India, while the share in population of Muslims increased by 43.15% in this time period, the share in population of Hindus decreased by 7.82%, adding that in 1950, Hindus’ share in population was 84.68%, coming down to 78.06% in 2015.
- Similarly, Muslims’ share in population had risen from 9.84% to 14.09%.
- Christian population rose from 2.24% to 2.36%.
- Sikh population increased from 1.24% to 1.85%where as the share of the Buddhist population rose from 0.05%to 0.81%.
- Among the minority population of Jain and Parsi communities, it decreased.
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