The world's Muslim population is growing older

 

SIXTY per cent of the population of Muslim-majority countries is under 30 years old. But they are ageing, according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The percentage of 15-29 year-olds crept up from 28% in 1990 to 29% in 2000, but has since started to drop. The median age, which stood at 19 in 1990, will be 30 in 2030. And over the next two decades people above 60 will form the fastest-growing age group, rising from 7% to 12% of the population, as fertility rates fall and life expectancies rise

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