Western, secular democracies like Canada and Germany may be losing their religion, but the global picture looks different.
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If you think religion belongs to the past and we live in a new age of reason, you need to check out the facts: 84% of the world’s population identifies with a religious group. Members of this demographic are generally younger and produce more children than those who have no religious affiliation, so the world is getting more religious, not less – although there are significant geographical variations.
...And while the religiously unaffiliated currently make up 16% of the global population, only about 10% of the world’s newborns were born to religiously unaffiliated mothers between 2010 and 2015.
...China has seen a huge religious revival in recent years and some predict it will have the world’s largest Christian population by 2030. The number of Chinese Protestants has grown by an average of 10 % annually since 1979, to between 93 million and 115 million, according to one estimate. There are reckoned to be another 10-12 million Catholics.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/201...t-happens-next
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My daughter's basketball practices take place in school gyms all over south Calgary, and recently I picked her up from a Christian Academy. As I was waiting, I walked over to look at the pictures of classes on the walls, expecting to see a bunch of pasty Europeans. I was surprised to see almost half the students were non-European.
As a country whose growth today comes largely from immigration, I'm not so sure Canada's religiosity numbers will continue to decline over the next 30 years the way they did in the last 30.