New Poll: Is The World Getting More Religious?

I was just reading this week's Economist magazine. There is a special report on Pakistan, and the trend in that country is far from comforting.

Even before 2001, life in Pakistan was becoming Islamised. Zia ul Haq, the military dictator who ruled from 1977 to 1988, was a religious fanatic. Under him the school curriculum became far more rigidly Islamic. The failings of state education have meant that more and more children attend religious schools, madrassas, of which according to one recent study there are about 20,000, with a student body of 2m-3m. The large numbers of Pakistani migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere come home inculcated with stricter forms of Islam than the tolerant, mystical saint-worship of Pakistan’s Sufi tradition.- The Economist,  In the shadow of the mosque

The trend of growing religiosity isn't confined to the Muslim world either. I've voiced the fear on other blogs (The Atheist Rabbi, for one) that Israel can be on the road of becoming the Pakistan of Judaism.

The fastest-growing population groups in Israel are those least plugged in to the high-tech economy: Israeli Arabs, who lag educationally, and haredim (ultra-orthodox Jews), whom the government pays to study the Torah. Two-thirds of working-age haredi men don’t work. They do procreate, however. In 1960 only 15% of Israeli schoolkids attended Arab or haredi schools. Now it’s about 50%, and if current trends continue it will be 78% by 2040, according to the Taub Centre, an Israeli think-tank. - the Economist, The promised land needs people.

Also, I've written about how Christians in Uganda, whipped up into a froth by their Christian brothers and sisters in America, are pushing for the death penalty for gays. A similar bill has been proposed in the predominantly Christian West African country of Liberia.

Former Liberian first lady Jewel Howard Taylor has introduced a bill making homosexuality liable to a death sentence, amid a raging debate over gay rights in the country, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Liberia ex-first lady proposes tough anti-gay bill 

And I know that many of you will say that a large percentage of people under thirty in America are not religious.

But America isn't the world.

What do you think?