11/19/2023 0 Comments Today in islamic![]() ![]() In the Middle East, the non-Arab countries of Iran and Turkey are the largest Muslim-majority countries, while Egypt and Nigeria in Africa have the same status. Ībout 20% of Muslims live in the Arab world. The largest Muslim population in a country is in Indonesia, a country home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.1%), India (10.9%) and Bangladesh (9.2%). Around 62% of the world's Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region (from Turkey to Indonesia), with over one billion adherents. Īccording to the Pew Research Center in 2010, there were 50 Muslim-majority countries. ![]() Western Europe hosts many Muslim immigrant communities where Islam is the second-largest religion after Christianity, where it represents 6% of the total population or 24 million people. In the countries of the Malay Archipelago, Muslims are in the majority in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.Ībout 15% of Muslims reside in Sub-Saharan Africa, and sizeable Muslim communities are also found in the Americas, Russia, China and Europe. Together, the Muslims in the countries of Southeast Asia constitute the world's third-largest population of Muslims. The country with the single largest population of Muslims is Indonesia in Southeast Asia, which on its own hosts 13% of the world's Muslims. The various Hamito-Semitic, Arab, Berber, Turkic, and Iranic countries of the greater Middle East- North Africa ( MENA) region, where Islam is the dominant religion in every country other than Israel, host 23% of the world's Muslims. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million adherents. Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. ![]() South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. The diverse Asia-Pacific region contains the highest number of Muslims in the world, easily surpassing the combined Middle East and North Africa. Islam is the majority religion in several subregions: Central Asia, Western Asia, North Africa, West Africa, the Sahel, and the Middle East. Most Muslims are either of two denominations: Sunni (87–90%, roughly 1.7 billion people) or Shia (10–13%, roughly 180–230 million people). Studies in the 21st century suggest that, in terms of percentage and worldwide spread, Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in the world, mostly because Muslims have more children than other major religious groups. A projection by the PEW suggests that Muslims numbered approximately 1.9 billion followers in 2020. World Muslim population by percentage (2014 estimate) Īdherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest religious group. ![]()
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