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1) Because we didn't go on a world wide hunting spree offering a choice of death or our religion from northwest Africa to China as other religions have.
2) Because everytime we pick up on population, somebody decides its time to slaughter us. That's why a Jewish state is indespensible, so that we can at least defend ourselves.
3) Most people don't know enough about other religions to "choose" one. To deduce the value of something by how rare it is doesn't work for religion, the same way it doesn't work for diamonds.
4) The issue of "chosen-ness" was addressed in comment 20.
5) If history is any indication, whenever the Jews had a strong country with a successful economy, as it was during the times of Kings David and Solomon, there were many people who "discovered" Judaism and converted for reasons that were less spiritual than psychological. The same was true of Christianity in the times of Constantine and Islam in the generation following Mohammed.
Everybody likes a winner, and I imagine that having the entire western world on the run, coupled with the "third-worldism" ideology that is propounded by the UN as the new form of personal "righteousness", has led to vicarious conversions to Islam in our day as a form of "identification" with values that a convert brings to the religion, not that were necessarily there before.
I don't mean that as a criticism of either Christianity, Judaism or Islam, but simply to note that people don't usually abandon or take on their religion for reasons of the quality of what the religion is offering up, but for reasons of personal security rather than spiritual quest. Therefore, nothing valuable can be gained from an assumption that numbers = value.
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