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Current demographics. 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]
South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. [21] [22] [23] Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million ...
Europe. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Europe. [ 24][ 25] According to the Pew Research Center, the Muslim population in Europe (excluding Turkey) was about 30 million in 1990, and 44 million in 2010; the Muslim share of the population increased from 4.1% in 1990 to 6% in 2010. [ 3]
Islam in Asia began in the 7th century during the lifetime of Muhammad. In 2020, the total number of Muslims in Asia was about 1.3 billion, it is the largest religion in Asia. Asia constitutes in absolute terms the world's largest Muslim population. [ 1] and about 62% of the world's Muslims live in Asia, with Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and ...
Muslims are the overwhelming majority in Central Asia, [ 38] the majority in the Caucasus, [ 39][ 40] and widespread in Southeast Asia. [ 41] India has the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries. [ 42] Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, and Egypt are home to the world’s second, fourth, sixth and seventh largest Muslim ...
There are alternate versions of this map available on wikimedia commons. Some use older data and provide a historical map. Some are current, but the above map differs in setting the lower limit of the lightest band to 1%. Gray color for a nation means near zero % of the population in that nation is Muslim.
The term Muslim Europe is used for the predominantly Muslim countries of Europe, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.As well as Muslim majority regions in Europe, including western parts of North Macedonia, Sandžak region within Serbia and Montenegro, Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria, [1] and many Muslim majority republics within Russia such as ...
The population of the Arab world as estimated in 2022 was 464.68 million inhabitants, [ 1] but no exact figures of the annual population growth, fertility rate, or mortality rate are known to exist. Most of the Arab population is concentrated in and around major urban areas. [citation needed]