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Muslims are likely to constitute roughly 26.3% of the world's total population by 2030. [313] This expected growth is attributed to Muslim families generally having more children as well as the fact that the Muslim population has the youngest median age of any religion. [ 312 ]
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 [31] Muslim Percentage by country, 2020 Maldives 100% [32] Mauritania 99.9% [33] Gaza Strip 99.9% [34] Morocco 99.9% [35]
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]
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]
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 ...
Growth of religion involves the spread of individual religions and the increase in the numbers of religious adherents around the world. In sociology, desecularization is the proliferation or growth of religion, most commonly after a period of previous secularization. Statistics commonly measure the absolute number of adherents, the percentage ...
Ahmadiyya is an Islamic religious movement originating in 1889 in northern India around the teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who claimed to have been divinely appointed as both the promised Mahdi and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times . As of 2016 the Community has been established in 209 countries and ...
In 2010, 74.1% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the majority, while 25.9% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the minority. [112] A Pew Center study in 2010 found that 3% of the world's Muslims population live in non-Muslim-majority developed countries. [112]