By Gustavo Lopez The U.S. has more immigrants than any other country in the world. Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants in 2015. The population of immigrants is also very diverse, with just about Continue Reading
New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow
By Besheer Mohamed Recent political debates over Muslim immigration and related issues have prompted many people to ask how many Muslims actually live in the United States. But coming up with an answer is not easy, in part because the U.S. Census Bureau does not ask questions about religion, Continue Reading
If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious affiliations
BY BECKA A. ALPER AND ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM As of 2014, there were roughly 245 million adults in the United States, including 173 million Christians and 56 million people without a religious affiliation. These are big numbers that, along with many others in the religious demographic pie, can at Continue Reading
Number of Refugees to Europe Surges to Record 1.3 Million in 2015
BY PHILLIP CONNOR A record 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in the 28 member states of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 – nearly double the previous high water mark of roughly 700,000 that was set in 1992 after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet Continue Reading