‘Muslims outnumber Catholics worldwide’

VATICAN CITY: Muslims outnumber Catholics worldwide, according to the latest count by the Vatican published in its daily newspaper on Saturday. Muslims represent more than 19 percent of the world’s 6.5 billion population while Catholics represent 17.4 percent, according to figures in the Vatican’s 2006 yearbook, Sunday’s edition of the Osservatore Romano reported. However, it said that Christianity overall was more widespread, with Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Anglicans, and Protestants jointly accounting for a third of the world’s population. The figures are based partly on United Nations statistics, the 2,000-page yearbook’s director Vittorio Formenti told the newspaper. Formenti said the change was due to Muslim families having more children than Christian families.

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