Demographics of Islam
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The following table analyzes the Demographics of Islam as of mid-year 2005.
The exact percentage of the world's Muslim population that adheres to the various Shi'a sects, as opposed to the majority Sunni group, is indeterminate. No Sunni-Shi'a breakdown is available for many countries. The CIA World Factbook gives a Sunni-Shi'a breakdown only for countries where Shi'a are a significant minority. When no breakdown is given, all the country's Muslims have been enrolled, provisionally, in the Sunni column. This is certain to have exaggerated the proportion of Sunni Muslims. Much further work will be required before the Sunni-Shi'a statistics given here can be considered reliable. At present, the figures indicate 85% Sunni and 15% Shi'a.
No columns have been provided for other sects like the Ibadi branch of Islam. Ibadis are found primarily in Oman.
There is also discrepancy between the Muslim total derived from adding up the figures for the various countries (1,363,000,000) and the Muslim total given by the CIA World Factbook (1,283,000,000). The CIA estimates that Muslims constitute some 20.12% of the world population. If the larger figure is used, the percentage would be 23.1%. The discrepancy may be due to rounding errors, since in many cases the Muslim population was calculated from the general population multiplied by the Muslim percentage. Replacing the CIA figures with figures from national censuses, if available, could reduce this discrepancy.
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[edit] Note on percentages
The percent of total Indian population that is Muslim has grown by 0.84 percent points during the period 1991-2001: from 12.60% (12.20% per 1991 Census figure adjusted for areas missed in 1991 Census) to 13.43% in the 2001 census. If we assume that this same trend continued in the years 2001-2005, we can estimate that 13.80% of the Indian population was Muslim in 2005. The table uses this estimate.
[edit] Data
Data is estimated as of mid-2005 for countries with the largest Muslim population, representing about 92% of the total world Muslim population.
| Country | Population | Muslim (%) | Muslim | Shia to Muslim (%) | Shia Population | Sunni to Muslim (%) | Sunni Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 24,600,000 | 100% | 24,600,000 | 10% | 2,460,000 | 90% | 22,140,000 |
| Turkey | 72,900,000 | 99% | 72,750,000 | 20% | 14,550,000 | 80% | 58,200,000 |
| Algeria | 32,800,000 | 99% | 32,472,000 | 4% | 1,298,880 | 96% | 31,173,120 |
| Morocco | 30,700,000 | 99% | 30,393,000 | 2% | 607,860 | 98% | 29,785,140 |
| Afghanistan | 29,900,000 | 99% | 29,601,000 | 18% | 5,328,180 | 82% | 24,272,820 |
| Yemen | 20,700,000 | 99% | 20,680,000 | 42% | 8,685,600 | 55% | 11,994,400 |
| Somalia | 8,600,000 | 99% | 8,600,000 | 1% | 86,000 | 99% | 8,514,000 |
| Mauritania | 3,100,000 | 99% | 3,100,000 | 1% | 31,000 | 99% | 3,069,000 |
| Kuwait | 2,600,000 | 99% | 2,600,000 | 35% | 910,000 | 65% | 1,690,000 |
| Oman | 2,400,000 | 99% | 2,376,000 | 5% | 118,800 | 55% | 1,306,800 |
| Bahrain | 700,000 | 99% | 700,000 | 70% | 490,000 | 30% | 210,000 |
| Maldives | 300,000 | 99% | 300,000 | 5% | 15,000 | 95% | 285,000 |
| Western Sahara | 300,000 | 99% | 300,000 | 3% | 9,000 | 97% | 291,000 |
| Iran | 69,500,000 | 98% | 68,805,000 | 89% | 61,924,500 | 9% | 6,880,500 |
| Tunisia | 10,000,000 | 98% | 9,800,000 | 2% | 196,000 | 98% | 9,604,000 |
| Comoros | 700,000 | 98% | 686,000 | 1% | 6,860 | 99% | 679,140 |
| Pakistan | 165,803,560 | 97% | 160,829,450 | 20% | 33,160,712 | 80% | 127,668,738 |
| Iraq | 28,800,000 | 97% | 27,936,000 | 65% | 18,158,400 | 35% | 9,777,600 |
| Niger | 14,000,000 | 97% | 13,580,000 | 3% | 407,400 | 97% | 13,172,600 |
| Libya | 5,800,000 | 97% | 5,626,000 | 1% | 56,260 | 99% | 5,569,740 |
| UAE | 4,600,000 | 96% | 4,416,000 | 15% | 662,400 | 85% | 3,753,600 |
| Gambia | 1,600,000 | 95% | 1,520,000 | 2% | 30,400 | 98% | 1,489,600 |
| Qatar | 800,000 | 95% | 760,000 | 10% | 76,000 | 90% | 684,000 |
| Egypt | 74,000,000 | 94% | 69,560,000 | 1% | 695,600 | 99% | 68,864,400 |
| Senegal | 11,700,000 | 94% | 10,998,000 | 5% | 549,900 | 95% | 10,448,100 |
| Jordan | 5,800,000 | 94% | 5,452,000 | 2% | 109,040 | 98% | 5,342,960 |
| Djibouti | 800,000 | 94% | 752,000 | 1% | 7,520 | 99% | 744,480 |
| Azerbaijan | 8,400,000 | 93% | 7,845,600 | 80% | 6,276,480 | 20% | 1,569,120 |
| Syria | 18,400,000 | 90% | 16,560,000 | 15% | 2,484,000 | 85% | 14,076,000 |
| Tajikistan | 6,800,000 | 90% | 6,120,000 | 5% | 306,000 | 95% | 5,814,000 |
| Turkmenistan | 5,200,000 | 89% | 4,628,000 | 4% | 185,120 | 96% | 4,442,880 |
| Indonesia | 221,900,000 | 88% | 195,272,000 | 1% | 1,952,720 | 99% | 193,319,280 |
| Bangladesh | 147,365,000 | 88% | 129,681,509 | 5% | 6,484,075 | 95% | 123,197,434 |
| Uzbekistan | 26,400,000 | 88% | 23,232,000 | 6% | 1,393,920 | 94% | 21,838,080 |
| Guinea | 9,500,000 | 85% | 8,075,000 | 3% | 242,250 | 97% | 7,832,750 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 5,200,000 | 75% | 3,900,000 | 3% | 117,000 | 97% | 3,783,000 |
| Sudan | 40,200,000 | 73% | 29,346,000 | 2% | 586,920 | 98% | 28,759,080 |
| Bosnia Herzegovenia | 2,800,000 | 42% | 2,340,000 | 7% | 163,800 | 93% | 2,176,200 |
| Ivory Coast | 18,200,000 | 60% | 10,920,000 | 4% | 436,800 | 96% | 10,483,200 |
| Lebanon | 3,800,000 | 55% | 2,104,310 | 60% | 1,200,000 | 40% | 850,000 |
| Nigeria | 131,500,000 | 50% | 65,750,000 | 5% | 3,287,500 | 95% | 62,462,500 |
| Tanzania | 36,500,000 | 50% | 18,250,000 | 6% | 1,095,000 | 94% | 17,155,000 |
| Burkina Faso | 13,900,000 | 50% | 6,950,000 | 3% | 208,500 | 97% | 6,741,500 |
| Eritrea | 4,700,000 | 50% | 2,350,000 | 1% | 23,500 | 99% | 2,326,500 |
| Kazakhstan | 15,100,000 | 47% | 7,097,000 | 5% | 354,850 | 95% | 6,742,150 |
| Ghana | 22,000,000 | 45% | 9,900,000 | 12% | 1,118,000 | 88% | 8,712,000 |
| Ethiopia | 75,067,000 | 30-45% | 36,032,160 | 1% | 387,000 | 99% | 23,135,000 |
| Macedonia | 2,000,000 | 32% | 630,000 | 1% | 6,300 | 99% | 623,700 |
| Kenya | 33,800,000 | 24% | 8,000,000 | 7% | 560,000 | 93% | 7,440,000 |
| Benin | 8,400,000 | 20% | 1,680,000 | 3% | 50,400 | 97% | 1,629,600 |
| Russia | 143,000,000 | 19% | 27,650,000 | 8% | 2,212,000 | 92% | 25,438,000 |
| Serbia/Montenegro & Kosovo | 10,700,000 | 19% | 2,030,000 | 15% | 304,500 | 85% | 1,725,500 |
| Uganda | 26,900,000 | 16% | 4,304,000 | 7% | 301,280 | 93% | 4,002,720 |
| Israel & Occupied Territories | 10,800,000 | 46% | 5,000,000 | 2% | 21,760 | 98% | 1,066,240 |
| India | 1,103,060,000 | 14% | 154,500,000 | 20% | 30,900,000 | 80% | 123,600,000 |
| Malaysia | 23,000,000 | 61% | 14,030,000 | 2% | 280,600 | 98% | 13,749,400 |
| Bulgaria | 7,700,000 | 12% | 890,000 | 10% | 89,000 | 90% | 801,0000 |
| France | 60,700,000 | 10% | 5,980,000 | 6% | 358,800 | 94% | 5,621,200 |
| Albania | 3,200,000 | 10% | 320,000 | 25% | 80,000 | 75% | 240,000 |
| Mongolia | 2,600,000 | 6% | 160,000 | 5% | 8,000 | 95% | 152,000 |
| Germany | 82,500,000 | 4% | 3,060,000 | 10% | 306,000 | 90% | 2,754,000 |
| China | 1,303,700,000 | 3% | 39,111,000 | 8% | 3,128,880 | 92% | 35,982,120 |
| United Kingdom | 59,668,000 | 3% | 1,600,000 | 10% | 160,000 | 90% | 1,440,000 |
| United States | 296,500,000 | 2% | 6,000,000 | 15% | 900,000 | 85% | 5,100,000 |
| South Africa | 46,900,000 | 2% | 938,000 | 10% | 93,800 | 90% | 844,200 |
| Canada | 32,200,000 | 2% | 620,000 | 10% | 62,000 | 90% | 558,000 |
| Brazil | 184,200,000 | 1% | 921,000 | 30% | 276,300 | 70% | 644,700 |
| Argentina | 38,600,000 | 1% | 500,000 | 10% | 50,000 | 90% | 450,000 |
| Australia | 20,400,000 | 1% | 280,000 | 10% | 28,000 | 90% | 252,000 |
| Italy | 58,700,000 | 0.51% | 50,000 | 5% | 2,500 | 95% | 47,500 |
| TOTAL | 4,992,663,560 | 29% | 1,461,813,559 | 15% | 219,667,367 | 85% | 1,238,699,792 |
Table sorted by country names: Demographics of Islam - Data by Country Name
[edit] References
The majority of the figures have been taken from, or calculated from, the CIA World Factbook [1] and the website Adherents.com [2]. When these sources fail to provide any numerical information, other sources have been used as specified below:
- [1]: Imam Reza Network estimates link (Shia source)
- [2]: Encyclopedia Britannica 1997 edition
- [3]: Registered religious communities in Finland (2003)
- [4]: Adherents website
