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# Flere muslimer enn katolikker
- URL: https://tjomlid.com/flere-muslimer-enn-katolikker/
- Published: 2008-03-31T17:42:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-09T01:45:37.000Z
- Author: Gunnar R. Tjomlid
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Vatikanet meldte nylig at [Islam nå har overtatt Romersk Katolisismens plass som den største enkeltstående religiøse gruppe](http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL3068682420080330?ref=tjomlid.com).

> Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent.  
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> "*For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us,*" Formenti told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.  
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> He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population -- or about 2 billion people.  
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> The Vatican recently put the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people. It did not provide a figure for Muslims, generally estimated at around 1.3 billion.  
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> Formenti said that while the number of Catholics as a proportion of the world's population was fairly stable, the percentage of Muslims was growing because of higher birth rates.