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Map of major denominations and religions. One way to define a major religion is by the number of current adherents. The population numbers by religion are computed by a combination of census reports and population surveys (in countries where religion data is not collected in census, for example the United States or France), but results can vary widely depending on the way questions are phrased ...
In terms of GDP per capita, Qatar is the richest developing country in the world. [82] The total GDP of all Arab countries in 1999 was US$531.2 billion. [83] The total Arab world GDP was estimated to be worth at least $2.8 trillion in 2011. [84] This is only smaller than the GDP of the US, China, Japan and Germany.
The exact number of Muslims in Europe is unknown but according to estimates by the Pew Forum, the total number of Muslims in Europe (excluding Turkey) in 2010 was about 44 million (6% of the total population), including 19 million (3.8% of the population) in the European Union. [14]
Iran is home of 70 million Shi'as, which constitutes 40% of the world's total Shi’a population. Iraq counts with 12% of Shi’a worldwide population; other countries with 1 million or more of the Shi’a population are Turkey, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. [16]
While slavery was by the 1870s viewed as morally unacceptable in the West, slavery was not considered to be immoral in the Muslim world since it was an institution recognized in the Quran and morally justified under the guise of warfare against non-Muslims, and non-Muslims were kidnapped and enslaved by Muslims around the Muslim world: in the ...
The Baháʼí Faith formed in the late 19th century in the Middle East, later gaining converts in India, East Africa, and the Western world.Traveling promoters of the religion played a significant role in spreading the religion into most countries and territories during the second half of the 20th century, [1] mostly seeded out of North America by the planned migration of individuals. [2]
The government counted all those people in France who migrated from countries with a dominant Muslim population, or whose parents did. The United States Department of State placed it at roughly 10%, [100] while two 2007 polls estimated it at about 3% of the total population. [101] The CIA World Factbook places it at 7–9%. [102]
In 2015, the International Telecommunication Union estimated about 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population, would be online by the end of the year. Of them, about 2 billion would be from developing countries, including 89 million from least developed countries.