Muslims constitute 0.6 percent of AmericaÂ’s population of 310.1 million, or 1.86 million, a new survey has shown. Muslim groups all along have claimed their US population to be around 6 million.
Hindus account for 0.4 percent, or 1.24 million, while Jews number 1.7 percent or 5.27 million of the countryÂ’s population. The extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious affiliation of the American public and explores the shifts taking place in AmericaÂ’s religious landscape.
Mormons and Muslims are the groups with the largest families: more than one-in-five Mormon adults and 15 percent of Muslim adults in the US have three or more children living at home. Nearly half of Hindus in the US, one-third of Jews and a quarter of Buddhists have obtained post-graduate education, compared with only about one-in-ten of the adult population overall. Hindus and Jews are also much more likely than other groups to report high-income levels.
Muslims, roughly two-thirds of whom are immigrants, now account for roughly 0.6 percent of the US adult population and Hindus, more than eight-in-ten of whom are foreign born, now account for approximately 0.4 percent of the population Even smaller religions in the US reflect considerable internal diversity. Muslims were found to be divided equally into Sunni and Shia groups.
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