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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.
Approximately 325 million Muslims live in the MENA region, which constitutes 20% of the global Muslim population. However, it also has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. By 2010 it was estimated that 93% of the populations in the Middle East and North Africa were Muslim, [3] although this information can vary from the ...
The only rule of thumb for inclusion which has some support, is that countries need to have a Muslim population of more than 50%. In 2010, 73% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the majority, while 27% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the minority.
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Data are mid-year estimates from the United Nations and are for 2022 and 2023. [2] List of countries and inhabited territories by total population. United Nations. World. India. China [a] United States. Indonesia.
This is a list of 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation sorted by their estimated population. 10 countries ( Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Suriname, Togo and Uganda) are not Muslim-majority, but they are members of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation .