Muslim-majority populations grew nearly 50 percent between 1955 and 1970

Evidence

The main recruits to Islamism in the early 1970s were educated urban youth. Between 1955 and 1970, population growth in Muslim-majority countries approached 50 percent. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 340

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A growing Muslim population outpaced land gains, shrinking per-capita holdings; Muslim population growth outpaced land gains, creating extreme inequality — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 183; Muslim-majority student enrollment in the US grew five-fold between 1948 and 1965 — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 667