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Islam has taken the number one spot from Roman Catholicism. Worldwide Muslims outnumber Catholics by about 170 millions.

Vatican sources found that in 2006 Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism for the first time in history. The number of Catholics account for 17.4 percent of the world population where as Muslims today account for 19.2 percent. That is about 1.13 billion Catholics as opposed to 1.3 billion Muslims. Number of Catholics grew as the same rate as world population keeping the percentage almost the same. However, Muslims grew faster increasing their share. Vatican says it is due to the imbalance in birth rate:

“It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer.”

But number of Christians from all denominations - including Protestants, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians - is still much higher than that of Muslims. In the world, Christians account for 33 percent of the population or about 2 billion out of 6 billion. That is one in every three people on the planet is Christian.

But if the Muslims continue to produce more children than Christians then it is only a matter of time before Islam takes over the Christianity as a whole.