Islam by country

World Muslim population by percentage

Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest religious group. According to a study in 2015, Islam has 1.8 billion adherents, making up about 24% of the world population.[1] Most Muslims are either of two denominations: Sunni (80-90%, roughly 1.5 billion people)[2] or Shia (10–20%, roughly 170-340 million people).[3] Islam is the dominant religion in the Central Asia, Indonesia, Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel[4][5][6][7] and some other parts of Asia.[8]

Around 31% of all Muslims are of South Asian origin (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and India combined).[9][10] The Indian subcontinent as a whole, therefore, hosts the largest population of Muslims in the world,[11] Within this region, however, Muslims are second in numbers to Hindus, as Muslims are a majority in Pakistan and Bangladesh, but not India.

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.[12] Together, the Muslims in the countries of the Malay Archipelago (which includes Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor) constitute the world's second or third largest population of Muslims. Here Muslims are majorities in each country other than the Philippines and East Timor.

The various Hamito-Semitic (including Arab, Berber), Turkic, and Iranic countries of the greater Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region,[13] where Islam is the dominant religion in all countries other than Israel,[5] hosts 23% of world Muslims.

About 15% of Muslims reside in Sub-Saharan Africa,[14][6][15] and sizable Muslim communities are also found in the Americas, Caucasus, China, Europe, Horn of Africa, Mainland Southeast Asia, Philippines, Russia and Swahili coast.

Western Europe host large Muslim immigrant communities where Islam is the second largest religion after Christianity, where it represents 6% of the total population or 24 million people.[16] Converts and immigrant communities are found in almost every part of the world.

Denominations

Historically, Islam was divided into two major religious denominations: Sunni and Shi'a. Of the total Muslim population, 87-90% are Sunni and 10-13% are Shi'a. Most Shi'as (between 68% and 80%) live in mainly four countries: Iran, Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Iraq.[17] Today, many of the Shia sects are extinct. The major surviving Imamah-Muslim Sects are Usulism (with nearly more than 10%), Nizari Ismailism (with nearly more than 1%) and Alevism (with slightly more than 0.5%[18] but less than 1%[19]). The other existing groups include Zaydi Shi'a of Yemen whose population is nearly more than 0.5% of the world's Muslim population, Musta’li Ismaili (with nearly 0.1%[20] whose Taiyabi adherents reside in Sindh and Gujarat in South Asia. There are also significant diaspora populations in Europe, North America, the Far East and East Africa[21]), and Ibadis from the Kharijites whose population has diminished to a level below 0.15%. On the other hand, new Muslim sects like the Nation of Islam, Ahmadi Muslims[22] (with nearly around 1%[23]), non-denominational Muslims, Quranist Muslims and Wahhabis (with nearly around 1-2%[24] of the world's total Muslim population) were later independently developed.

According to the Pew Research Center in 2010, there were 50 Muslim-majority countries.[25][26] Around 62% of the world's Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region (from Turkey to Indonesia), with over 1 billion adherents.[27] The largest Muslim population in a country is in Indonesia, a nation home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.0%), and India (10.9%).[4][28] About 20% of Muslims live in Arab countries.[29] In the Middle East, the non-Arab countries of Turkey and Iran are the largest Muslim-majority countries; in Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have the most populous Muslim communities.[4][28] The study found more Muslims in the United Kingdom than in Lebanon and more in China than in Syria.[4]

Countries

Most of the percentages of Muslim populations of each country, if not stated otherwise, were taken from the study by the Pew Research Center report of The Future of the Global Muslim Population, as of 27 January 2011.[4][30] Other studies show variance with Pew figures. The percentage of Muslims in Egypt is given as 93.7%. However, the figure for Christians in Egypt is usually estimated at 12-15%, but in truth nobody knows since there has been no religious census. Likewise the percentage of Christians in Jordan is usually estimated to be 6-7%.

Table

Country/Region Muslims Muslim percentage (%) of total population Percentage (%) of World Muslim population
Afghanistan Afghanistan 29,047,100 99.8 1.8
Albania Albania 1,587,608 56.7[31] 0.1
Algeria Algeria 40,400,000 98.2[4]–99[32] 2.7
American Samoa American Samoa < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Andorra Andorra < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Angola Angola 90,000 1.0 < 0.1
Anguilla Anguilla < 1,000 0.3 < 0.1
Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda < 1,000 0.6 < 0.1
Argentina Argentina 784,000 2.5 < 0.1
Armenia Armenia < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Aruba Aruba < 1,000 0.4 < 0.1
Australia Australia 604,000[33] 2.6 < 0.1
Austria Austria 700,000[34] 8[34] < 0.1
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan 9,872,765 96.9 0.5
The Bahamas Bahamas < 1,000 0.1 < 0.1
Bahrain Bahrain 866,888[35] 70.2[35] < 0.1
Bangladesh Bangladesh 148,607,000[36] 90.4 9.2
Barbados Barbados 2,000 0.9 < 0.1
Belarus Belarus 19,000 0.2 < 0.1
Belgium Belgium 658,463 5.9[37] < 0.1
Belize Belize < 1,000 0.1 < 0.1
Benin Benin 2,710,000 24.5 0.1
Bermuda Bermuda < 1,000 0.8 < 0.1
Bhutan Bhutan ≤ 2,000[38] 0.2[38] < 0.1
Bolivia Bolivia 2,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina 1,790,454 50.7[39] 0.1
Botswana Botswana 8,000 0.4 < 0.1
Brazil Brazil 204,000 0.1 < 0.1
British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands < 1,000 1.2 < 0.1
Brunei Brunei 295,000 67[40] < 0.1
Bulgaria Bulgaria 577,000[41] 7.8% < 0.1
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso 11,270,000 60.5[42] 0.6
Myanmar Burma (Myanmar) 2,237,495 2.3[43] 0.1
Burundi Burundi 277,480 2.5[44] < 0.1
Cambodia Cambodia 303,187[45] 1.9[45] < 0.1
Cameroon Cameroon 4,940,000 20.9[46] 0.2
Canada Canada 1,053,945[47] 3.2[47][48] 0.1
Cape Verde Cape Verde 10,000 2[32] < 0.1
Cayman Islands Cayman Islands < 1,000 0.2 < 0.1
Central African Republic Central African Republic 403,000 15[49][50] < 0.1
Chad Chad 7,827,653 58[32] 0.4
Chile Chile 2,894[51] 0.03 (over 15+ pop.)[51] < 0.1
China China 22,000,000[52]-50,000,000[53] 1.8 1.4
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands < 1,000[54] 80[54] < 0.1
Colombia Colombia 40,000 to 80,000[55] 0.2 < 0.1
Comoros The Comoros 785,000 98.3 < 0.1
Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo 3,648,267 5[32] 0.1
Cook Islands Cook Islands < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Costa Rica Costa Rica < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Croatia Croatia 60,000 1.4[37] < 0.1
Cuba Cuba 10,000 0.1 < 0.1
Cyprus Cyprus 273,000 22.7 < 0.1
Czech Republic Czech Republic 10,500 0.1 < 0.1
Denmark Denmark 230,000 4.1[37] < 0.1
Djibouti Djibouti 853,000 97.0 0.1
Dominica Dominica < 1,000 0.2 < 0.1
Dominican Republic Dominican Republic 2,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Ecuador Ecuador 145 < 0.1 < 0.1
Egypt Egypt 73,800,000 90[56] 4.9
El Salvador El Salvador 2,000 <0.1 <0.1
Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea 28,000 4.1 < 0.1
Eritrea Eritrea 1,909,000 36.6[57]-48[58]/50 0.1
Estonia Estonia 1,508 <0.1 < 0.1
Ethiopia Ethiopia 25,037,646[59] 34 1.8
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Falkland Islands Falkland Islands < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Federated States of Micronesia Federated States of Micronesia < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Fiji Fiji 54,000 6.3 <0.1
Finland Finland 42,000[60] 0.8[60] <0.1
France France 5,020,000 7.5[37] 0.3
French Guiana French Guiana 2,000 0.9 <0.1
French Polynesia French Polynesia < 1,000 < 0.1 <0.1
Gabon Gabon 145,000 9.7 <0.1
The Gambia Gambia 1,669,000 95.3 0.1
Georgia (country) Georgia 442,000 10.5 <0.1
Germany Germany 3,551,802-4,700,000[61][60] 4.4-5.8 0.2
Ghana Ghana 4,914,000 18[32] 0.2
Gibraltar Gibraltar 1,000 4.0 <0.1
Greece Greece 610,000 5.3[37] <0.1
Greenland Greenland < 1,000 <0.1 <0.1
Grenada Grenada < 1,000 0.3 <0.1
Guadeloupe Guadeloupe 2,000 0.4 <0.1
Guam Guam < 1,000 <0.1 <0.1
Guatemala Guatemala 1,000 <0.1 <0.1
Guinea Guinea 8,693,000 84.2 0.5
Guinea-Bissau Guinea Bissau 705,000 45[62] <0.1
Guyana Guyana 55,000 7.2 <0.1
Haiti Haiti 2,000 <0.1 <0.1
Honduras Honduras 11,000 0.1 <0.1
Hong Kong Hong Kong 220,000[63] 3.1 <0.1
Hungary Hungary 5,579[64] 0.3 <0.1
Iceland Iceland 770[65] 0.2[65] <0.1
India India 180,000,000[66] 14.2[67] 9.6
Indonesia Indonesia 225,000,000[68] 87.2[69] 12.7
Iran Iran 74,819,000 99.7 4.6
Iraq Iraq 31,108,000 99 1.9
Republic of Ireland Ireland 70,158 1.3[70] <0.1
Isle of Man Isle of Man < 1,000 0.2 <0.1
Israel Israel 1,287,000 17.7 0.1
Italy Italy 2,220,000 3.7[37] 0.1
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast 7,960,000 40[71][72][73] 0.5
Jamaica Jamaica 1,000 <0.1 <0.1
Japan Japan 185,000 0.1 <0.1
Jordan Jordan 6,397,000 93.8 0.4
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 8,887,000 70.2 (official census)[74] 0.5
Kenya Kenya 2,868,000 10[75] 0.2
Kiribati Kiribati < 1,000 <0.1 <0.1
Kosovo Kosovo 1,584,000[76] 95.6 0.1
Kuwait Kuwait 2,636,000 74.1[77] 0.2
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan 4,927,000 88.8 0.3
Laos Laos 1,000 <0.1 <0.1
Latvia Latvia 2,000 0.1 <0.1
Lebanon Lebanon 2,542,000 59.7 0.2
Lesotho Lesotho 1,000 <0.1 <0.1
Liberia Liberia 523,000 12.8 <0.1
Libya Libya 6,325,000 96.6 0.4
Liechtenstein Liechtenstein 2,000 4.8 <0.1
Lithuania Lithuania 3,000 0.1 <0.1
Luxembourg Luxembourg 11,000 2.3 <0.1
Macau Macau < 1,000 <0.1 <0.1
Republic of Macedonia Macedonia 500,000 33.3[78] <0.1
Madagascar Madagascar 220,000 7[79] <0.1
Malawi Malawi 2,011,000 12.8 0.1
Malaysia Malaysia 19,500,000 61.4 1.1
Maldives Maldives 309,000 100 <0.1
Mali Mali 15,667,704 95[32] 0.8
Malta Malta 1,000 0.2 <0.1
Marshall Islands Marshall Islands < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Martinique Martinique < 1,000 0.2 < 0.1
Mauritania Mauritania 4,171,633 100[80] 0.2
Mauritius Mauritius 230,118 17.3[81] < 0.1
Mayotte Mayotte 197,000 98.8 < 0.1
Mexico Mexico 3,700[82] - 111,000[4] 0.1 < 0.1
Moldova Moldova 15,000 0.4 < 0.1
Monaco Monaco < 1,000 0.5 < 0.1
Mongolia Mongolia 200,000 6 < 0.1
Montenegro Montenegro 118,477[83] 19.11%[83] < 0.1
Montserrat Montserrat < 1,000 0.1 < 0.1
Morocco Morocco 32,381,000 99[84] 2.0
Mozambique Mozambique 5,340,000 22.8 0.3
Namibia Namibia 9,000 0.4 < 0.1
Nauru Nauru < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Nepal Nepal 1,253,000 4.2 0.1
Netherlands Netherlands 825,000/1,000,000 5[85] - 6[37] 0.1
Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles < 1,000 0.2 < 0.1
New Caledonia New Caledonia 7,000 2.8 < 0.1
New Zealand New Zealand 41,000 0.9 < 0.1
Nicaragua Nicaragua 1,000 <0.1 < 0.1
Niger Niger 19,502,214 98.3[86] 1.0
Nigeria Nigeria 93,839,000 41[86]-50[87] 4.7
Niue Niue < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
North Korea North Korea 3,000 0.1 < 0.1
Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands < 1,000 0.7 < 0.1
Norway Norway 121,098[88] 2.3[88] (official census via CIA, of July 2016). < 0.1
Oman Oman 2,427,000 85.9%[89] 0.2
Pakistan Pakistan 195,000,000[90] 96.4 11.0
Palau Palau < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
State of Palestine Palestinian Territories 4,298,000 97.5 0.3
Panama Panama 25,000 0.7 < 0.1
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 2,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Paraguay Paraguay 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Peru Peru < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Philippines Philippines 5,000,000-10,700,000[91] 5-11% 0.3-0.6
Poland Poland 20,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Portugal Portugal 65,000 0.6 < 0.1
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Qatar Qatar 1,168,000 77.5 0.1
Republic of the Congo Republic of Congo 77,736 1.6 < 0.1
Réunion Reunion 35,000 4.2 < 0.1
Romania Romania 73,000 0.3 < 0.1
Russia Russia 9,400,000[92] - 20,000,000[93] 6.5[92] - 15[93][94] 1.0
Rwanda Rwanda 589,429 4.8[95] < 0.1
Saint Helena St. Helena < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Saint Kitts and Nevis St. Kitts and Nevis < 1,000 0.3 < 0.1
Saint Lucia St. Lucia < 1,000 0.1 < 0.1
Saint Pierre and Miquelon St. Pierre and Miquelon < 1,000 0.2 < 0.1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2,000 1.7 < 0.1
Samoa Samoa < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
San Marino San Marino < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 25,493,000 97.1 1.6
Senegal Senegal 14,584,931 95.9 0.8
Serbia Serbia 221,460 3.1[96] < 0.1
Seychelles Seychelles < 1,000 1.1 < 0.1
Sierra Leone Sierra Leone 4,171,000 71.5 0.3
Singapore Singapore 721,000 14.7[97] < 0.1
Slovakia Slovakia 10,866 0.2[37] < 0.1
Slovenia Slovenia 73,568 3.6[37] < 0.1
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Somalia Somalia 9,231,000 98.9[98][99][100][101] 0.6
South Africa South Africa 654,064[102] 1.5 < 0.1
South Korea South Korea 35,000 0.1 < 0.1
South Sudan South Sudan 610,000 6.2% <0.1
Spain Spain 1,887,906 4.1[103] 0.1
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 1,967,227[104] 9.71[104] 0.1
Sudan Sudan 39,027,950 97.0[105] 1.9
Suriname Suriname 84,000 19.6[106] < 0.1
Swaziland Swaziland 129,230 10[107] < 0.1
Sweden Sweden 450,000-500,000[108] 5[108] < 0.1
Switzerland Switzerland 400,000[109] 5[109] < 0.1
Syria Syria 17,376,000 82.9%[110] 1.0
Taiwan Taiwan 60,000[111] 0.3[112] < 0.1
Tajikistan Tajikistan 6,506,000 96.7%[113][114] 0.4
Tanzania Tanzania 19,426,814 35[115] 0.8
Thailand Thailand 3,952,000 5.8 0.2
East Timor Timor-Leste 1,000 0.1 < 0.1
Togo Togo 827,000 20[116] 0.1
Tokelau Tokelau < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Tonga Tonga < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 78,000 5.8 < 0.1
Tunisia Tunisia 11,190,000 99.8 0.6
Turkey Turkey 74,660,000 98.6 4.6
Turkmenistan Turkmenistan 4,830,000 93.3 0.3
Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Tuvalu Tuvalu < 1,000 0.1 < 0.1
Uganda Uganda 5,030,000 12.0 0.3
Ukraine Ukraine 393,000[117] 0.9 < 0.1
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 3,262,000 67%[118] 0.2
United Kingdom United Kingdom 3,106,368 4.8[37] 0.2
United States United States 2,595,000 0.8[119]-0.9[120] 0.2
United States Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands < 1,000 0.1 < 0.1
Uruguay Uruguay < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan 26,833,000 96.5 1.7
Vanuatu Vanuatu < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Vatican City Vatican City 0 0 0
Venezuela Venezuela 95,000 0.3 < 0.1
Vietnam Vietnam 71,200[121] 0.2 < 0.1
Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna < 1,000 < 0.1 < 0.1
Western Sahara Western Sahara 528,000 99.6 < 0.1
Yemen Yemen 24,023,000 99.0 1.5
Zambia Zambia 140,000 1[32] < 0.1
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 488,656 3[32] < 0.1
Central Asia 54,000,000[122] 81[123] 3.0
South Asia 600,000,000[124][125] 31.4[126][127] 30.6[128][129]
Southeast-East Asia 257,000,000[130][122] 12.0 15.0
Middle East-North Africa (MENA) 315,322,000[13] 91.2 22.9
Sub-Saharan Africa 242,544,000 29.6 15.0
Europe 44,138,000 6.0 2.7
Americas 5,256,000 0.6 0.3
World Total 1,800,000,000[1] 24.1 100.0

See also

Islam:

Other religions by country:

General

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