Is Buddhism in a worldwide decline? I was listening to a podcast a while ago and it stated that Buddhism worldwide is in decline. I found that surprising. Is that true? Does anyone have any references or better still statistics to prove or disprove that.
I found several interesting Wiki pages: 

This one gives a basic idea about the growth as a comparison between 1910 and 2010. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_religion

This is the List of religious population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations

This one gives the population groth rates 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth_rate

By briefly analysing all of the above, I feel like Buddhism is decline according to the statistics. 

Further found this article which gives a projections for the Next 200 Years : 
http://www.wnrf.org/cms/print_next200.shtml

According to it from 1900 to 2025 Buddhist world wide % changed ( and will be change) from 7.8% to 5.7%. 

Although it sound like depressing, please think as a Buddhists this is quite expected and all align with Buddhist teaching. Going forward, It is quite clear that world is not going be a better place than today. As people moving more towards to materialism, consumerism they tends to distract from the reality. So be mindful and practice the Dhamma.