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South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. 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 adherents.
Countries and territories with a considerable proportion of Muslims from Islam by country as of 2010, excluding foreign workers in brackets: Data is based on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Muslim Percentage by country, 2020 Maldives 100% Mauritania 99.9%; Gaza Strip 99.9% Morocco 99.9%
In 1900 Muslims only numbered 200 million followers or 12% of the world population. This percentage drastically increased over the last 100 years due to higher birth rate in Muslim majority countries. Pew Research have estimated the number will be around 2.2 billion in 2030 and 2.8 billion, or 30 percent of world population, in 2050.
From 2010 to 2050, the Muslim population in the MENA countries is expected to grow 74%, from 317 million to 552 million. Muslims will remain the majority group in the region, while Christians and Jews will remain as the second and third largest groups respectively. Buddhists and Hindus are expected to double their size by 2050.
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. Numbers have been rounded to nearest integer for coloring purposes. Source: Pew Research Center, Washington DC, Religious Composition by Country (December 2012)
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 Bangladeshhaving the largest Muslimpopulations in the world.
The population of the Arab world as estimated in 2022 was 464.68 million inhabitants, [1] But there's 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]
This is a list of Arab League countries and territories by population. ... Country 1950 2000 2050 ... cities in the Arab world; List of Middle East countries by ...