Care to cite a source for that? Considering the high proportion of Muslims in Russia and the rate at which they reproduce, reports of a “steep decline” seem pretty dubious. As for your “statistics” comparing Ukraine to Russia, sounds like something that would come of Russian Nazi Alexander Dubin’s work.
>> As for your “statistics†comparing Ukraine to Russia, sounds like something that would come of Russian Nazi Alexander Dubin’s work. <<
The source, is Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies via Wikipedia.
>> Considering the high proportion of Muslims in Russia and the rate at which they reproduce, reports of a “steep decline†seem pretty dubious. <<
Muslim reproductive rates are largely a myth. Fertility rates have fallen more sharply than anywhere in the world in Muslim places like Iran and Algeria. In Russia, they are still considerably higher than the average birthrate, due in large part to being from impoverished and rural areas, which tend to have higher birth rates. But they are abandoning their religion at very rapid rates.
Even in the United States, Muslims claim 10 million believers based on ethnicity, but a Pew research study found less than one percent of Muslims claim to be Muslim (less than three million). And of those, only 36% said they look to religion for moral guidance. That’s less than a million active Muslims... despite the fact that a million nominal Muslims entered the US in just the last eight years.
It’s even harder keeping women Islamic (Gee, I wonder why). The Pew study found that 65% of US Muslims were male, and 59% of those who were adults were unmarried.
Oh, but I forgot the source for Muslim population falling.
European Social Surveys in 2007 and 2009 found 8% of Russians were Muslim. The Russian Census in 2013 found this number had dropped to 6.5%. Further, most (4.7%, a majority of the 6.5%) told the census that they were “unaffiliated,” as opposed to only one in ten Christians being unaffiliated. The Census skipped the heavily Muslim Chechnya, but that’s only 1% of the Russian population.
These polls conflict with other estimates based on demographics which suggested that Muslims should be 14% or more of the population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Russia