Projecting the religious composition of the population is relevant for several reasons. It is a key characteristic influencing several aspects of individual behaviour, including marriage and childbearing patterns. The religious composition is also a driver of social cohesion and increased...

We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue, Hispanic Catholics will experience rapid growth,...

This paper examines levels of educational attainment in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam for the period 1970-2030 through the reconstruction and projection of levels of educational attainment. While the study of the past shows that the determination to invest in...

Religion and religiosity are important identity markers, and changes in a country's religious composition may affect its culture, value orientations and policies. In recent decades the Protestants in both the US and Canada have lost their absolute population majority. In the present study we...

Die Mitgliederzahl und Struktur der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. und H.B. in Österreich haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich verändert. 1971 war die Evangelische Kirche noch die zweitgrößte Kategorie in der Religionsstatistik (nach der röm.-kath.Kirche), 1981 wurde die Evangelische...

In Anlehnung an den Bericht von Goujon, Jurasszovich und Potančoková (2017), der die Bevölkerung von Wien und Österreich nach Religionszugehörigkeit für den Zeitraum 2001- 2016 schätzte, sowie an ein früheres Projekt von Fliegenschnee, Goujon und Lutz (2004), das sich mit der Zukunft der...

Secularization and migration have substantially affected the place of the Protestant Church in the Austrian society in the last decades. The number of members has been shrinking markedly from 447 thousand members in 1971 to 278 thousand in 2018. The trend is visible across all provinces,...