Countries around the world with Muslim populations of at least 10% or with more than 1 million.
* Muslim-majority Countries or at least 50% Muslim.
Unless otherwise noted, these are July 2010 estimates.
About the Wikipedia Map above: Nations with a Muslim majority appear in green, while nations that are approximately 50% Muslim appear yellow.
Country | Population | Percentage of Muslims
* Afghanistan | 28,395,716 | 99%
* Albania | 3,639,453 | 70%
* Algeria | 34,178,188 | 99%
* Azerbaijan | 8,238,672 | 93.4%
* Bahrain | 728,709 | 81.2%
* Bangladesh | 156,050,883 | 89.5%
Benin | 8,791,832 | 24.4%
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4,613,414 | 40%
* Brunei | 388,190 | 67%
Bulgaria | 7,204,687 | 12.2%
* Burkina Faso | 15,746,232 | 50%
Cameroon | 18,879,301 | 20%
Central African Republic (CAR) | 4,511,488 | 15%
* Chad | 10,329,208 | 53.1%
China | 1,338,612,968 | 1-2%
* Comoros | 752,438 | 98%
Congo DR | 68,692,542 | 10%
Cote d'lvoire | 20,617,068 | 38.6%
Cyprus | 1,084,748 | 18%
* Djibouti | 724,622 | 94%
* Egypt | 78,866,635 | 90%
* Eritrea | 5,647,168 | 50%
Ethiopia | 85,237,338 | 32.8%
Fiji | 944,720 | 6.3%
France | 64,420,07 | 5-10%
* Gambia, The | 1,778,081 | 90%
Georgia | 4,615,807 | 10%
Germany | 82,329,758 | 3.7
Ghana | 23,887,812 | 15.9%
* Guinea | 10,057,975 | 85%
Guinea Bissau | 1,533,964 | 50%
Guyana | 752,940 | 7.2%
India | 1,156,897,766 | 13.4%
* Indonesia | 240,271,522 | 86.1% (2000 census)
* Iran | 66,429,284 | 98%
* Iraq | 28,945,569 | 97%
Israel | 7,233,701 | 16% (2004 census)
* Jordan | 6,269,285 | 92% (2001 census)
Kazakhstan | 15,399,437 | 47%
Kenya | 39,002,772 | 10%
* Kuwait | 2,692,526 | 85%
* Kyrgyzstan | 5,431,747 | 75%
* Lebanon | 4,017,095 | 59.7%
Liberia | 3,441,790 | 20%
* Libya | 6,324,357 | 97%
Macedonia | 2,066,718 | 33.3% (2002 census)
Madagascar | 20,653,556 | 7%
Malawi | 15,028,757 | 12.8%
Malaysia | 25,715,819 | 60.4%
* Maldives | 396,334 | 99%
* Mali | 13,443,225 | 90%
* Mauritania | 3,129,486 | 100%
Mauritius | 1,284,264 | 16.6%
* Mayott | 223,765 | 97%
Montenegro | 672,180 | 17.7% (BBC)
* Morocco | 31,285,174 | 98.7%
Mozambique | 21,669,278 | 17.8%
Myanmar (Burma) | 48,137,741 | 4%
Nepal | 28,563,377 | 4.2 (2001)
* Niger | 15,306,252 | 80%
* Nigeria | 149,229,090 | 50%
* Oman | 3,418,085 | 85%
* Pakistan | 174,578,558 | 95%
Philippines | 97,976,603 | 5%
* Qatar | 833,285 | 77.5% (2001 census)
Russia | 140,041,247 | 10-15%
Rwanda | 10,746,311 | 4.6% (2001)
* Saudi Arabia | 28,686,633 | 100%
* Senegal | 13,711,597 | 94%
Serbia | 7,379,339 (3.2%) + Kosovo - 1,804,838 (90%) (BBC)
* Sierra Leone | 5,132,138 | 60%
Singapore | 4,657,542 | 14.9% (2000 census)
* Somalia | 9,832,017 | 99%
Sri Lanka | 21,324,791 | 7.6%
* Sudan | 41,087,825 | 70%
Suriname | 481,267 | 19.6%
* Syria | 21,762,978 | 90%
* Tajikistan | 7,349,145 | 90% (2003 census)
Tanzania | 41,048,532 | 35%
Thailand | 65,998,436 | 4.6% (2000 census)
Togo | 6,031,808 | 20%
* Tunisia | 10,486,339 | 98%
* Turkey | 76,805,524 | 99.8%
* Turkmenistan | 4,884,887 | 89%
Uganda | 32,369,558 | 12.1% (2002 census)
* UAE (United Arab Emirates) | 4,798,491 | 96%
UK (United Kingdom) | 61,113,205 | 2.7% (2001 census)
USA (United States) | 307,212,123 | 1.7% (2002 census)
* Uzbekistan | 27,606,007 | 88%
Western Sahara | 405,210 | 99%
* Yemen | 22,858,238 | 99%
NOTE
Since 30-Days of Prayer for the Muslim World began in 1992 we have prayed for most of these countries. (Follow the Links above for details.)
External Links and Sources:
- Mapping the Global Muslim Population (Pew Research Forum)
- World Fact Book (CIA)
- Muslim Population Worldwide
- The Largest Muslim Communities
- Global Status of Evangelical Christianity Unengaged Unreached People Groups
- Unreached Ethnic People Group Listings (Joshua Project)
- and Wikipedia has several good links, maps and resources + World Religions: Britannica Book of the Year, ©2003
To Download:
- Global Status of Evangelical Christianity Unengaged Unreached Muslim People Groups 100,000 or more (xls file saved via MS Excel, 380 kb)
- 2010 World Muslim Population compiled by Houssain Kettani at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. 61 pages of interesting statistics on Muslim countries and the demographics of Muslim growth. (pdf, 788 kb)
[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 (June 2008 estimates).
* 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
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Mashallah we are 1/5 of the world's population!
...and still growing of course...
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.
Our population has increased. Alhamdulillah ! Unfortunately, we are poor ,uneducated, miserable. We are divided in many Firqas. We fight over trivial things. We have become weak. Quran does not tell us to divide in Firqas. We need dialouge. Our beautiful sisters in Hijab need education so they can teach the future generation of Islam. I have given a slogan to my sisters in India,''Please cover your body and uncover your soul.'' Nazneen O. Saherwala (Surat, India)
Please explain more on how I can tell a muslim lady in hijab to ,''Please cover your body and uncover your soul.' i belive this is a very good way to reach them.
God Bless you
We are after quantity,we are after quality. We want to increase population. We want to educate the population. Education inside the four walls,education outside the four walls. We want worldly education,we want heavenly education. I think the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmedinejad could become a great Islamic leader. He understands and he needs support, love and prayers from all Muslims. He would wipe out the tears of Muslims. I request Muslims to write letters to the President requesting him to take the lead. Ameen. Nazneen O. Saherwala.(Surat, India)
Mashallah
Why don't Christians respond? Cool that Muslims leave so many comments, but where is the Christian response? This is a Christian site, or? People like Nazneen are offering good insight into Islam, or Banu on the "About Islam" site, but where are the answers from the Word of God? Christians, please respond more and offer the witness you are asked to be!
Much thanks Blackwell, When we pray, God Works. so be pertient God is working things out.
remeber He taketh the wise in thier craftiness.
I just come across this site by accident and have unpreparedlly replied about 5 people.
Just relax God is working something out of which you wll every praise Him.
God bless you.
Let me try to humbly explain why we as followers of Jesus Christ pray for you Muslims who seek to submit to God. It is true that Muslims and Christians honor similar virtues and decry much of the godlessness present in this world (such as homosexuality or the mistreatment of those such as women). There is much ground that we share as we believe in one ultimate God who made everything, decides how we should live and has revealed himself. However we differ on how what he revealed and on how we will be spared eternal judgment for our wrong-doing. We Christians believe that God himself came to earth and lived as a human [beware of limiting God's abilities or the complexities of his nature] and himself suffered for us, dying a most horrifying death (in our place) and then came back to life (ensuring that we could have life beyond death). (See 1 Corinthians 15:1-11). We believe that "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23) and "the penalty of sin is death" (Romans 6:23) . Absolutely no one can be cleared of their wrongs by their own efforts (i.e. we're all too messed up to save ourselves by doing good things). Sadly most people are either unaware of this or too proud too recognize their faults and truly submit to God and receive His true, amazing mercy (undeserved!!). This God offers to anyone who believes that Jesus is God, took on human life, lived a sinless life (see Surah 19.19), died for us and so provided us new life, clearing us of condemnation that we deserved. (See John 3:13-19). So we pray for Muslims, as well as others who may seek or not seek God, that your eyes may be opened to see God as he truly is, and that your hearts may be humbled to accept him, so that you might know and receive his incredible mercy and worship him truly that he may be more greatly honored.
Allahu Akbar
islam can overcome any situation in world it is proved Earth is created by a mass brocken predicted by islam before 1400years ,and another end of the world that time or date not published but provide indicaters ALhumdulilla
ALLAH HO AKBAR
...and here is my humble explanation as to why Muslims do not agree with the Christian beliefs. To clear it up first off, we as Muslims DO believe and love Jesus Christ son of Maryam, perhaps a whole lot more than you care to think.
I hate Islam. It is a false religion. Muslims persecute Christians because the truth is a threat to that false relgion Islam. Christianity is older than islam. muhammad was a whore and a child sexual predator. Women are inferior in islam and their men dominate their women. they treat their woman like children. the devil created islam after christianity to deceive people. Christianity is much better than islam. Jesus raised from the dead, but mohammad is still in his grave and have rot to dust. muhammad never perform miracles and great healings. Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, cast out demons, fed five thousand men not including their wives and children with two fishes and five loads of bread. Jesus is an atonment for sins but in islam their is not atonement for sins. islam is a nasty dirty and awful religion. i hate islam i hate islam I wish the religion will be abolish. you take those false scriptures and burn it with fire. I rebuke islam in the name of Jesus Christ the true and the living God. I rebuke and curse islam in the name of Jesus Christ.
Lovely language "Pastor"! I'm so sure that you managed to bring more into "Christianity" with such lovely, colorful language and devilish hate. I wonder if you stopped for a moment and asked WWJD (What would Jesus Do). You're just another person brain washed by what the media gives. This issue of the Prophet's wife (may the blessings of Allah be upon him and be pleased with her) is only a new issue. It wasn't until the turn of the centry that people started to dwell on this because, before that, it was the norm for women to marry young. And for sure, Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) was more mature than the average sack of meat ya'll have galavanting around the streets in the name of "freedom" and "liberation". I really don't have to justify anything to you because it is indeed pointless. It is not the idea you have issues with, your ignorance runs a lot deeper than that and they've blinded you beyond reason. If it is one thing Islam taught me is, if you have nothing good to say, KEEP SILENT. Allah also instructed us to debate in a respectful manner with kindness and mercy, something you clearly fail to do here.
) It is confirming the TRUTH that came before from the beginning of creation and the Message ended at Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Jesus indeed did not die but Allah raised him up onto Himself so that he would return again to settle this argument between us and you. I'm sorry but I love Jesus a zillion times more than you because I respect and follow the message he came with GOD IS ONE and NONE has the right to be worshipped but He.
And sorry to burst your bubble but Islam will not and cannot ever be abolished
Umm Khaled, youre quite factual of which i quite appreaciate. But pls i apeal to your kindness: What will it take you to belive a thing? Am sure you will believe a thing if YOU SEE IT, YOU CAN LOGICALLY COMPREHEND IT, YOU CAN AFFIRM IT OR PROVE IT. I know you wll have more to that. before you can believe a thing. but in my humble view YOU WILL BEST BELIEVE A THING IF IT IS REVEAL (OR MADE KNOWN) TO YOU? N o matter the arguement any one may offer, hope am right.
Please permit me to pray for you and myself that the truth OR MORE OF THE TRUTH will be reveal to us. Jesus (peace of God be on him) says YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH & THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.
I appreciate you for expressin your conviction.
bye umm
Umm Khaled you at it again. thumb up for you. you re always detail and factual. You see Andrew is trying to explain a mystery, i wonder how he himself got to understand it. i think that is what he is trying to share. You see if we argue or backed our conviction on issues of our faith but when it is eventually revealed to us what do we do.
can you imagine this.
"a child born by unknown mother, but the wife of the king of the land sohow, someway got the child and she took the child to the palace and the child was nuture to maturity in the palace. you know he has been indocrinated about the palace lifestyle but after about 40years the dying queen now reveal to him that she is not actually his mother. WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN TO ALL THAT HE HAD BELIEVE AND LIVE ALL THESE YEARS. you see this is the problem Andrew and I myself have. we try to explain a mystery based on our own convictions and most often from our perspectives. but your see umm when it is reveal to you like the queen mother revealed before she eventually died. I pray that it will not be too late for us to know the truth. there are some things that sounds UNREASONABLE like the ones mention by Andrew. BUT WHATEVER WE DO ABOUT THEM IF THEY TRULY THE TRUTH CAN NOT CHANGE THEM. when the 40year old eventually discovered he refused to be called a Prince which he had always live like.
This is replical of the story of Moses ( the peace of God be on Him)
i quite appreciate the factually basis of your convictions.
Umm thanks for opening yourself to this discussion.
This is 4 Pastor L.S. Glover , Christians have persecute more Muslim in last haundred years and they are still doing it, all it is that the reason they use to persecute Muslim changes here and there, but persecution of Muslim dont change. just look at the fact of last haundered years and it will be clear to u. peach
i quite aggre with you my brother
But there is something you must considered. things are done with zeal but not with love.
That is what has been happening in the past. there is not reason why christians will persecute muslims. NO
I believe Christians and Muslims can work together despite our differences. As to Pastor L.S Glover, I doubt he is a genuine Pastor of any church but rather a puppet going online to cause argument between us.
In the Christian faith we follow these words "Love thy neighbor" and I teach that we must have tolerance and faith in God, I respect all other faiths and believe that Muslims have a place in the world as do Christians.
God created us all and we must live with one another, I am happier to have a Muslim neighbor than an atheist.
you quite right Pastor Mark Williams, at times you wonder as the ignorance of some people from the west. it will be better is they are illiterate. He is so quite bereft of the scriptures.
Muslims are temperamentally aggressive you need the true love of christ to reach them.
Let pray for the likes like him that God will filled him with love.
bless you pastor williams.
what a powerful site! Am sorry i didnt know about this site before ramadam. We just held a major conference on Missions in Ibadan southwest of nigeria of whch TERROCULTURE was extensively dissussed. and how missionaries were slaughered to instill fear in preaching the gospel. Great is your site and i pray that the lord continue to strenghten you.
Pls i want to carry out a detialed research on the growing trend of muslims worldwide especially in africa. what strategic steps christians especially students can take to cub or stop it. and how can they engage their future to effectively preached the gospel to the muslim. prayers are is the best and only way to start. but i believe our prayers must rouse us to further action.
thanks and God Bless you richly.
Very sincerely i appreciate your site is quite exhaustive
The peoples says muslims have growing because of birth rate i ask them a question if muslim growing by birth rate in germany they r not germans? in france the muslims not belong to france ?peoples in whole europe u will see europe will became muslims continent in 50 yrs but no one stop it because european christian peoples dont have faith in christainity the peoples of europe agree that there are more errors in bibles they have no answer of that errors thats why people converting to islam because they see the truth in islam . In 2006 in spain more than 3 lakh peoples convert to islam, in africa continet counry like tanzania more than 50% are muslims because of converts, see the difference before all non-muslims comments.
1) Muslims constitue 23.4% of the world population. So , it is clear that now Islam has became reality and it cannot be ignored any more.
2) Nazneen , you are absolutely right.
3) Brothers , you are praying that Islam should be weak. But Islam is growing day by day , east to west. You should study Islam neutraly and decide whether Islam is truth or not.
4) For Andrew : Jesus was not god at all. Does it feel good that god was badly punished and was killed openly by ordinary people? Does it sounds good that ordinary jews were chasing god and god was hiding himself from ordinary jews? Please think with open hearted , open mindedly and sensibly.
You say that if some one will become christian , then God will forgive him. Does it seems senseful that a christian had , for example , killed 1000 people but God says well done ! Although you have killed 1000 people but you are christian. Therefore , go to the heaven. Not at all.
You should study Islam neutraly and then decide whether Islam is true or not.
5) For administration : when some body say some thing rude about christianity , his words are deleted by administration. This is a good policy. I appreciate it.
But when some one say some thing rude about Islam , no action is taken ( as in the case of pastor ). This is the dual face of christianity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gzyeo1Z1I4
May lord show them the way and the truth that the devil is strong in its trickeries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9CauJP4Pg
i need an explaination for this besides death threats.