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Master business Muslims countries
- Muslim population: 1.57 billion people
(23% of the world population - 6.8 billion)
20% of the population of the world.
- Only 15% of Muslims are Arab (Middle East)
- 62% of the world Muslim population lives in
Asia and 20% in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa)
- 300 million Muslims, live in countries where Islam is
not the majority religion:
China (more Muslims than Syria)
India (the 3th-biggest population
of Muslims worldwide)
Russia (more Muslims than Jordan and Libya)
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Countries with the biggest
Muslim Populations (2009):
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Estimated
Muslim
population 2009 |
% of pop.
that is
Muslim |
% of World
Muslim pop. |
| Asia-Pacific |
972,537,000 |
24,1 |
61,9 |
| MENA (Middle East and North Africa) |
315,322,000 |
92,1 |
20,1 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa |
240,632,000 |
30,1 |
15,3 |
| Europe |
38,112,000 |
5,2 |
2,4 |
| Americas |
4,596,000 |
0,5 |
0,3 |
| World total |
1,571,198,000 |
22,9 |
100 |
Countries with the biggest Number of Muslims Living as Minorities
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Estimated 2009
Muslim Population |
Percentage of
Population that
is Muslim |
Percentage of
World Muslim
Population |
| India |
160,945,000 |
13.4% |
10.3% |
| Ethiopia |
28,063,000 |
33.9 |
1.8 |
| China |
21,667,000 |
1.6 |
1.4 |
| Russia |
16,482,000 |
11.7 |
1.0 |
| Tanzania |
13,218,000 |
30.2 |
0.8 |
| Ivory Coast |
7,745,000 |
36.7 |
0.5 |
| Mozambique |
5,224,000 |
22.8 |
0.3 |
| Philippines |
4,654,000 |
5.1 |
0.3 |
| Germany* |
4,026,000 |
~5 |
<1 |
| Uganda |
3,958,000 |
12.1 |
0.3 |
Source: Pew Research Center's
Forum on Religion
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| Country |
Total
Population |
Muslim
percentage |
Number
of
Muslims |
| Afghanistan |
33,609,937 |
99% |
33,273,838 |
| Albania |
3,639,453 |
70% |
2,547,617 |
| Algeria |
34,178,188 |
99% |
33,836,406 |
| Angola |
12,799,293 |
0% |
- |
| Antigua Barbuda |
85,632 |
0% |
- |
| Argentina |
40,913,584 |
2.1% |
859,185 |
| Armenia |
2,967,004 |
0% |
- |
| Aruba |
103,065 |
5% |
5,153 |
| Australia |
21,262,641 |
1.7% |
361,465 |
| Austria |
8,210,281 |
4.2% |
344,832 |
| Azerbaijan |
8,238,672 |
93.4% |
7,694,920 |
| Bahamas, The |
309,156 |
0% |
- |
| Bahrain |
727,785 |
81.2% |
590,961 |
| Bangladesh |
156,050,883 |
83% |
129,522,233 |
| Barbados |
284,589 |
0% |
817 |
| Belarus |
9,648,533 |
5% |
482,427 |
| Belgium |
10,414,336 |
3.6% |
374,916 |
| Belize |
307,899 |
0% |
- |
| Benin |
8,791,832 |
24.4% |
2,145,207 |
| Bhutan |
691,141 |
0% |
- |
| Bolivia |
9,775,246 |
0% |
- |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina |
4,613,414 |
40% |
1,845,366 |
| Botswana |
1,990,876 |
5% |
99,544 |
| Brazil |
198,739,269 |
1.1% |
2,186,132 |
| Brunei Darussalam |
388,190 |
67% |
260,087 |
| Bulgaria |
7,204,687 |
12.2% |
878,972 |
| Burkina-Faso |
15,746,232 |
50% |
7,873,116 |
| Burma |
48,137,741 |
4% |
1,925,510 |
| Burundi |
8,988,091 |
10% |
898,809 |
| Cambodia |
14,494,293 |
2.1% |
304,380 |
| Cameroon |
18,879,301 |
20% |
3,775,860 |
| Canada |
33,487,208 |
1.9% |
636,257 |
| Cape Verde |
429,474 |
0% |
- |
| Central African Republic |
4,511,488 |
15% |
676,723 |
| Chad |
10,329,208 |
53.1% |
5,484,809 |
| Chile |
16,601,707 |
1% |
166,017 |
| China |
1,338,612,968 |
2% |
26,772,259 |
| Colombia |
45,644,023 |
0% |
- |
| Comoros |
752,438 |
98% |
737,389 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. of the |
68,692,542 |
10% |
6,869,254 |
| Congo, Republic of the |
4,012,809 |
2% |
80,256 |
| Costa Rica |
4,253,877 |
0% |
- |
| Ivory Coast |
20,617,068 |
38.6% |
7,958,188 |
| Croatia |
4,489,409 |
1.3% |
58,362 |
| Cuba |
11,451,652 |
0% |
- |
| Cyprus |
796,740 |
18% |
143,413 |
| Czech Republic |
10,211,904 |
2% |
204,238 |
| Denmark |
5,500,510 |
2% |
110,010 |
| Djibouti |
516,055 |
94% |
485,092 |
| Dominican Republic |
9,650,054 |
0% |
- |
| Ecuador |
14,573,101 |
0% |
- |
| Egypt |
83,082,869 |
90% |
74,774,582 |
| El Salvador |
7,185,218 |
0% |
- |
| Equatorial Guinea |
633,441 |
25% |
158,360 |
| Eritrea |
5,647,168 |
80% |
4,517,734 |
| Estonia |
1,299,371 |
0.7% |
9,096 |
| Ethiopia |
85,237,338 |
32.8% |
27,957,847 |
| Fiji |
944,720 |
6.3% |
59,517 |
| Finland |
5,250,275 |
0.2% |
9,450 |
| France |
64,057,792 |
10% |
6,405,779 |
| Gabon |
1,514,993 |
0.9% |
13,635 |
| Gambia |
1,782,893 |
90% |
1,604,604 |
| Gaza Strip |
1,551,859 |
99.3% |
1,540,996 |
| Georgia |
4,615,807 |
9.9% |
456,965 |
| Germany |
82,329,758 |
3.7% |
3,046,201 |
| Ghana |
23,832,495 |
15.9% |
3,789,367 |
| Gibraltar |
28,034 |
4% |
1,121 |
| Greece |
10,737,428 |
1.3% |
139,587 |
| Greenland |
57,600 |
0% |
- |
| Guatemala |
12,974,361 |
0% |
- |
| Guinea |
10,057,975 |
85% |
8,549,279 |
| Guinea Bissau |
1,533,964 |
50% |
766,982 |
| Guyana |
772,298 |
7.2% |
55,605 |
| Haiti |
9,035,536 |
0% |
- |
| Honduras |
7,792,854 |
0% |
- |
| Hong Kong |
7,055,071 |
1% |
70,551 |
| Hungary |
9,905,596 |
6% |
594,336 |
| Iceland |
306,694 |
0% |
- |
| India |
1,166,079,217 |
13.4% |
156,254,615 |
| Indonesia |
240,271,522 |
86.1% |
206,873,780 |
| Iran |
66,429,284 |
99% |
65,764,991 |
| Iraq |
28,945,657 |
97% |
28,077,287 |
| Ireland |
4,203,200 |
2% |
84,064 |
| Israel |
7,233,701 |
16% |
1,157,392 |
| Italy |
58,126,212 |
3% |
1,743,786 |
| Jamaica |
2,825,928 |
0% |
- |
| Japan |
127,078,679 |
1% |
1,270,787 |
| Jordan |
6,342,948 |
95% |
6,025,801 |
| Kazakhstan |
15,399,437 |
47% |
7,237,735 |
| Kenya |
39,002,772 |
10% |
3,900,277 |
| Korea, North |
22,665,345 |
0% |
- |
| Korea, South |
48,508,972 |
1% |
485,090 |
| Kuwait |
2,691,158 |
85% |
2,287,484 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
5,431,747 |
75% |
4,073,810 |
| Laos |
6,834,942 |
2% |
136,699 |
| Latvia |
2,231,503 |
0.4% |
8,480 |
| Lebanon |
4,017,095 |
60% |
2,410,257 |
| Lesotho |
2,130,819 |
10% |
213,082 |
| Liberia |
3,441,790 |
30% |
1,032,537 |
| Libya |
6,310,434 |
100% |
6,310,434 |
| Lithuania |
3,555,179 |
0.1% |
4,977 |
| Macedonia |
2,066,718 |
30% |
620,015 |
| Madagascar |
20,653,556 |
20% |
4,130,711 |
| Malawi |
14,268,711 |
35% |
4,994,049 |
| Malaysia |
25,715,819 |
52% |
13,372,226 |
| Maldives |
396,334 |
100% |
396,334 |
| Mali |
12,666,987 |
90% |
11,400,288 |
| Malta |
405,165 |
14% |
56,723 |
| Mauritania |
3,129,486 |
100% |
3,129,486 |
| Mauritius |
1,284,264 |
16.7% |
213,958 |
| Mayotte |
223,765 |
97% |
217,052 |
| Mexico |
111,211,789 |
0% |
- |
| Moldova |
4,320,748 |
0.2% |
8,641 |
| Mongolia |
3,041,142 |
4% |
121,646 |
| Morocco |
34,859,364 |
98.7% |
34,406,192 |
| Mozambique |
21,669,278 |
29% |
6,284,091 |
| Namibia |
2,108,665 |
5% |
105,433 |
| Nepal |
28,563,377 |
4% |
1,142,535 |
| Netherlands |
16,715,999 |
5.8% |
969,528 |
| New Zealand |
4,213,418 |
1% |
42,134 |
| Nicaragua |
5,891,199 |
0% |
- |
| Niger |
15,306,252 |
80% |
12,245,002 |
| Nigeria |
149,229,090 |
75% |
111,921,818 |
| Norway |
4,660,539 |
1.8% |
83,890 |
| Oman |
3,418,085 |
100% |
3,418,085 |
| Pakistan |
176,242,949 |
97% |
170,955,661 |
| Panama |
3,360,474 |
4% |
134,419 |
| Papua New Guinea |
6,995,655 |
0% |
- |
| Paraguay |
5,734,139 |
0% |
- |
| Peru |
29,546,963 |
0% |
- |
| Philippines |
97,976,603 |
14% |
13,716,724 |
| Poland |
38,482,919 |
2% |
769,658 |
| Portugal |
10,707,924 |
0.5% |
53,540 |
| Puerto Rico |
3,971,020 |
0% |
- |
| Qatar |
833,285 |
100% |
833,285 |
| Reunion |
802,000 |
20% |
160,400 |
| Romania |
22,215,421 |
1% |
222,154 |
| Russia |
140,041,247 |
14% |
19,605,775 |
| Rwanda |
10,473,282 |
4.6% |
481,771 |
| Saudi Arabia |
28,686,633 |
100% |
28,686,633 |
| Senegal |
13,711,597 |
95% |
13,026,017 |
| Serbia |
7,379,339 |
3.2% |
236,139 |
| Sierra Leone |
6,440,053 |
60% |
3,864,032 |
| Singapore |
4,657,542 |
17% |
791,782 |
| Slovakia |
5,463,046 |
0.2% |
10,926 |
| Slovenia |
2,005,692 |
1.6% |
31,088 |
| Somalia |
9,832,017 |
100% |
9,832,017 |
| South Africa |
49,052,489 |
2% |
981,050 |
| Spain |
40,525,002 |
1.2% |
486,300 |
| Sri Lanka |
21,324,791 |
7.6% |
1,620,684 |
| Sudan |
41,087,825 |
70% |
28,761,478 |
| Suriname |
481,267 |
19.6% |
94,328 |
| Swaziland |
1,123,913 |
10% |
112,391 |
| Sweden |
9,059,651 |
3.1% |
280,849 |
| Switzerland |
7,604,467 |
3.1% |
235,738 |
| Syria |
20,178,485 |
74% |
14,932,079 |
| Taiwan |
22,974,347 |
0% |
- |
| Tajikistan |
7,349,145 |
90% |
6,614,231 |
| Tanzania |
41,048,532 |
65% |
26,681,546 |
| Thailand |
65,905,410 |
14% |
9,226,757 |
| Togo |
6,019,877 |
55% |
3,310,932 |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
1,229,953 |
12% |
147,594 |
| Tunisia |
10,486,339 |
98% |
10,276,612 |
| Turkey |
76,805,524 |
99.6% |
76,529,024 |
| Turkmenistan |
4,149,283 |
89% |
3,692,862 |
| Uganda |
32,369,558 |
12.1% |
3,916,717 |
| Ukraine |
45,700,395 |
0.5% |
205,652 |
| United Arab Emirates |
4,798,491 |
96% |
4,606,551 |
| United Kingdom |
61,113,205 |
2.7% |
1,650,057 |
| United States |
307,212,123 |
0.6% |
1,843,273 |
| Uruguay |
3,494,382 |
0% |
- |
| Uzbekistan |
27,606,007 |
88% |
24,293,286 |
| Venezuela |
26,814,843 |
0% |
- |
| Vietnam |
86,967,524 |
0.1% |
86,968 |
| West Bank |
2,461,267 |
75% |
1,845,950 |
| Western Sahara |
405,210 |
100% |
405,210 |
| Yemen |
23,822,783 |
99% |
23,584,555 |
| Zambia |
11,862,740 |
15% |
1,779,411 |
| Zimbabwe |
11,392,629 |
15% |
1,708,894 |
| World |
6,780,584,602 |
0% |
1,634,948,648 |
Note: in orange, countries
with more than 5 Millions of Muslims.
Source: Pop. Data - 2009 CIA World Factbook
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