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Description: Muslim Population: Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Egypt (Master, Doctorate)

- Muslim population: 1.57 billion people (23% of the world's population - 6.8 billion), 20% of the World's population.
- Only 15% of Muslims are Arab (Middle East)
- 62% of the World Muslim population lives in Asia and 20% in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa)
- 300 million Muslims, live in countries where Islam is not the largest religion: China (more Muslims than in Syria), India (the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide) (more Muslims than in Jordan and Libya).

Countries with the largest Muslim Populations:

Country	Million
Indonesia	203
Pakistan	174
India	161
Bangladesh	145
Egypt	79
Nigeria	78
Iran	74
Turkey	74
Algeria	34
Morocco	32
Iraq	30
Sudan	30
Afghanistan	28
Ethiopia	28
Uzbekistan	26
Saudi Arabia	25
Yemen	23
China	22
Syria	20
Russia	16

	Estimated Muslim population 2009	% of Muslim pop.	% of the world Muslim pop.
Asia-Pacific	972,537,000	24,1	61,9
MENA (Middle East and North Africa)	315,322,000	92,1	20,1
Sub-Saharan Africa	240,632,000	30,1	15,3
Europe	38,112,000	5,2	2,4
Americas	4,596,000	0,5	0,3
World total	1,571,198,000	22,9	100

The countries with the largest Number of Muslims Living as Minorities.

	Estimated Muslim Population	Percentage of Population that is Muslim	Percentage of World Muslim Population
India	160,945,000	13.4%	10.3%
Ethiopia	28,063,000	33.9	1.8
China	21,667,000	1.6	1.4
Russia	16,482,000	11.7	1.0
Tanzania	13,218,000	30.2	0.8
Ivory Coast	7,745,000	36.7	0.5
Mozambique	5,224,000	22.8	0.3
the Philippines	4,654,000	5.1	0.3
Germany*	4,026,000	~5	<1
Uganda	3,958,000	12.1	0.3

Source: Pew Research centre's Forum on Religion.

Country	Total Population	Muslim percentage	Number of Muslims
Afghanistan	33,609,937	99%	33,273,838
Albania	3,639,453	70%	2,547,617
Algeria	34,178,188	99%	33,836,406
Angola	12,799,293	0%	-
Antigua Barbuda	85,632	0%	-
Argentina	40,913,584	2.1%	859,185
Armenia	2,967,004	0%	-
Aruba	103,065	5%	5,153
Australia	21,262,641	1.7%	361,465
Austria	8,210,281	4.2%	344,832
Azerbaijan	8,238,672	93.4%	7,694,920
Bahamas, The	309,156	0%	-
Bahrain	727,785	81.2%	590,961
Bangladesh	156,050,883	83%	129,522,233
Barbados	284,589	0%	817
Belarus	9,648,533	5%	482,427
Belgium	10,414,336	3.6%	374,916
Belize	307,899	0%	-
Benin	8,791,832	24.4%	2,145,207
Bhutan	691,141	0%	-
Bolivia	9,775,246	0%	-
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,613,414	40%	1,845,366
Botswana	1,990,876	5%	99,544
Brazil	198,739,269	1.1%	2,186,132
Brunei	388,190	67%	260,087
Bulgaria	7,204,687	12.2%	878,972
Burkina-Faso	15,746,232	50%	7,873,116
Burma	48,137,741	4%	1,925,510
Burundi	8,988,091	10%	898,809
Cambodia	14,494,293	2.1%	304,380
Cameroon	18,879,301	20%	3,775,860
Canada	33,487,208	1.9%	636,257
Cape Verde	429,474	0%	-
Central African Republic	4,511,488	15%	676,723
Chad	10,329,208	53.1%	5,484,809
Chile	16,601,707	1%	166,017
China	1,338,612,968	2%	26,772,259
Colombia	45,644,023	0%	-
The Comoros	752,438	98%	737,389
Congo, Dem. Rep. Of the	68,692,542	10%	6,869,254
Republic of the Congo	4,012,809	2%	80,256
Costa Rica	4,253,877	0%	-
Ivory Coast	20,617,068	38.6%	7,958,188
Croatia	4,489,409	1.3%	58,362
Cuba	11,451,652	0%	-
Cyprus	796,740	18%	143,413
Czech Republic	10,211,904	2%	204,238
Denmark	5,500,510	2%	110,010
Djibouti	516,055	94%	485,092
Dominican Republic	9,650,054	0%	-
Ecuador	14,573,101	0%	-
Egypt	83,082,869	90%	74,774,582
El Salvador	7,185,218	0%	-
Equatorial Guinea	633,441	25%	158,360
Eritrea	5,647,168	80%	4,517,734
Estonia	1,299,371	0.7%	9,096
Ethiopia	85,237,338	32.8%	27,957,847
Fiji	944,720	6.3%	59,517
Finland	5,250,275	0.2%	9,450
France	64,057,792	10%	6,405,779
Gabon	1,514,993	0.9%	13,635
The Gambia	1,782,893	90%	1,604,604
Gaza Strip	1,551,859	99.3%	1,540,996
Georgia	4,615,807	9.9%	456,965
Germany	82,329,758	3.7%	3,046,201
Ghana	23,832,495	15.9%	3,789,367
Gibraltar	28,034	4%	1,121
Greece	10,737,428	1.3%	139,587
Greenland	57,600	0%	-
Guatemala	12,974,361	0%	-
Guinea	10,057,975	85%	8,549,279
Guinea-Bissau	1,533,964	50%	766,982
Guyana	772,298	7.2%	55,605
Haiti	9,035,536	0%	-
Honduras	7,792,854	0%	-
Hong Kong	7,055,071	1%	70,551
Hungary	9,905,596	6%	594,336
Iceland	306,694	0%	-
India	1,166,079,217	13.4%	156,254,615
Indonesia	240,271,522	86.1%	206,873,780
Iran	66,429,284	99%	65,764,991
Iraq	28,945,657	97%	28,077,287
Ireland	4,203,200	2%	84,064
Israel	7,233,701	16%	1,157,392
Italy	58,126,212	3%	1,743,786
Jamaica	2,825,928	0%	-
Japan	127,078,679	1%	1,270,787
Jordan	6,342,948	95%	6,025,801
Kazakhstan	15,399,437	47%	7,237,735
Kenya	39,002,772	10%	3,900,277
Korea, North	22,665,345	0%	-
Korea, South	48,508,972	1%	485,090
Kuwait	2,691,158	85%	2,287,484
the Kyrgyz Republic	5,431,747	75%	4,073,810
Laos	6,834,942	2%	136,699
Latvia	2,231,503	0.4%	8,480
Lebanon	4,017,095	60%	2,410,257
Lesotho	2,130,819	10%	213,082
Liberia	3,441,790	30%	1,032,537
Libya	6,310,434	100%	6,310,434
Lithuania	3,555,179	0.1%	4,977
Macedonia	2,066,718	30%	620,015
Madagascar	20,653,556	20%	4,130,711
Malawi	14,268,711	35%	4,994,049
Malaysia	25,715,819	52%	13,372,226
Maldives	396,334	100%	396,334
Mali	12,666,987	90%	11,400,288
Malta	405,165	14%	56,723
Mauritania	3,129,486	100%	3,129,486
Mauritius	1,284,264	16.7%	213,958
Mayotte	223,765	97%	217,052
Mexico	111,211,789	0%	-
Moldova	4,320,748	0.2%	8,641
Mongolia	3,041,142	4%	121,646
Morocco	34,859,364	98.7%	34,406,192
Mozambique	21,669,278	29%	6,284,091
Namibia	2,108,665	5%	105,433
Nepal	28,563,377	4%	1,142,535
Netherlands	16,715,999	5.8%	969,528
New Zealand	4,213,418	1%	42,134
Nicaragua	5,891,199	0%	-
Niger	15,306,252	80%	12,245,002
Nigeria	149,229,090	75%	111,921,818
Norway	4,660,539	1.8%	83,890
Oman	3,418,085	100%	3,418,085
Pakistan	176,242,949	97%	170,955,661
Panama	3,360,474	4%	134,419
Papua New Guinea	6,995,655	0%	-
Paraguay	5,734,139	0%	-
Peru	29,546,963	0%	-
The Philippines	97,976,603	14%	13,716,724
Poland	38,482,919	2%	769,658
Portugal	10,707,924	0.5%	53,540
Puerto Rico	3,971,020	0%	-
Qatar	833,285	100%	833,285
Reunion	802,000	20%	160,400
Romania	22,215,421	1%	222,154
Russia	140,041,247	14%	19,605,775
Rwanda	10,473,282	4.6%	481,771
Saudi Arabia	28,686,633	100%	28,686,633
Senegal	13,711,597	95%	13,026,017
Serbia	7,379,339	3.2%	236,139
Sierra Leone	6,440,053	60%	3,864,032
Singapore	4,657,542	17%	791,782
Slovakia	5,463,046	0.2%	10,926
Slovenia	2,005,692	1.6%	31,088
Somalia	9,832,017	100%	9,832,017
South Africa	49,052,489	2%	981,050
Spain	40,525,002	1.2%	486,300
Sri Lanka	21,324,791	7.6%	1,620,684
Sudan	41,087,825	70%	28,761,478
Suriname	481,267	19.6%	94,328
Eswatini	1,123,913	10%	112,391
Sweden	9,059,651	3.1%	280,849
Switzerland	7,604,467	3.1%	235,738
Syria	20,178,485	74%	14,932,079
Taiwan	22,974,347	0%	-
Tajikistan	7,349,145	90%	6,614,231
Tanzania	41,048,532	65%	26,681,546
Thailand	65,905,410	14%	9,226,757
Togo	6,019,877	55%	3,310,932
Trinidad and Tobago	1,229,953	12%	147,594
Tunisia	10,486,339	98%	10,276,612
Turkey	76,805,524	99.6%	76,529,024
Turkmenistan	4,149,283	89%	3,692,862
Uganda	32,369,558	12.1%	3,916,717
Ukraine	45,700,395	0.5%	205,652
Emirates	4,798,491	96%	4,606,551
United Kingdom	61,113,205	2.7%	1,650,057
U.S.	307,212,123	0.6%	1,843,273
Uruguay	3,494,382	0%	-
Uzbekistan	27,606,007	88%	24,293,286
Venezuela	26,814,843	0%	-
Vietnam	86,967,524	0.1%	86,968
West Bank	2,461,267	75%	1,845,950
Western Sahara	405,210	100%	405,210
Yemen	23,822,783	99%	23,584,555
Zambia	11,862,740	15%	1,779,411
Zimbabwe	11,392,629	15%	1,708,894
World	6,780,584,602	0%	1,634,948,648

Note: in orange, countries with more than 5 million Muslims.

Source: Pop. Data - CIA World Fact book

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