That flies in the face of evidence which shows that, while fertility rates have historically been significantly higher among Muslims, birth rates are now dropping among Muslim immigrant populations in Europe and in Muslim countries.
A 2007 study by demographers Charles Westhoff and Tomas Frejka identified the same trend among Muslim immigrant populations in most countries where data was available, including Austria, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and England and Wales.
The total fertility rate among Muslim women is almost always higher than that of the native population, but with the passage of time Muslim fertility moves closer to the fertility of the majority of the population in the respective countries.
In this country, the study tracks changing fertility rates among women from Pakistan and Bangladesh (assumed to be overwhelmingly Muslim).
Women from Pakistan and Bangladesh tend to have more children, but the fertility gap shrinks over the decades.
The US Pew Forum think-tank predicts that this gap will continue to diminish in the coming decades in all European countries.
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