Muslim Populations around the world

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[Click the image to enlarge. Green represents a Sunni majority and blue represents a Shia majority. (A Wikipedia image.)]

Demographics: One fifth of the world population is statistically Islam. Muslims are the majority in 52 nations.

* 3-11 million Muslims in the Americas (estimates vary greatly)
- 5-8 million Muslims in Canada and the United States
- 1-3 million Muslims in Latin America

* 84 million Muslims in Europe (including Turkey)
- 10 million Muslims in Western Europe, mostly in the UK, France, Germany
- 7 million Muslims in the Balkans, mostly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania and Republic of Macedonia
- 67 million Muslims in Turkey

* 284 million Muslims in the Middle East or Arab League

* 254 million Muslims in Sub-Saharan Africa

* 103 million Muslims in Central Asia
- 49 million Muslims in the former republics of the Soviet Union: Central Asia - in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan
- 26 million Muslims in Russia
- 28 million Muslims in Afghanistan

* 450 million Muslims in South Asia
- 156 million Muslims in Pakistan
- 127 million Muslims in Bangladesh
- 174 million Muslims in India

* 289 million Muslims in East Asia
- 30 million Muslims in China
- 209 million Muslims in Indonesia (the largest National Muslim community in the world)
- 30 million Muslims in the rest of South-East Asia, especially Malaysia and Brunei.
- Small populations in Japan, Mongolia, North Korea or the South Pacific

* Over 1.5 billion in total

The World Factbook 2006 estimates the world has about 6,525,170,264 billion people. Of those, 1.4 billion people, 20.12% are Muslims. Other estimates for 2006 put the Muslim population at about 1.6 billion people.

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2 Responses to “Muslim Populations around the world”

Khalid Almekseeki, on November 17th, 2007 at 1:54 Said:

Mashallah we are 1/5 of the world’s population!

…and still growing of course…
Rachel, on April 4th, 2008 at 4:58 Said:

Last year a fellow prayer warrior and myself led the 30 days of prayer at our home church here in Miami, Fl, USA. It was a blessing that I can’t even begin to describe. A hunger and thirst grew in the hearts of the saints for the Islamic community to know the Lord. I am looking forward to this year’s Ramadan and all that the Lord will do as we humble ourselves and pray.