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Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest religious group. A projection by the PEW suggests that Muslims numbered approximately 1.9 billion followers in 2020.[2][3] Studies in the 21st century suggest that, in terms of percentage and worldwide spread, Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in the world, mostly because Muslims have more children than other major religious groups.[4][5] Most Muslims are either of two denominations: Sunni (87–90%, roughly 1.7 billion people)[6] or Shia (10–13%, roughly 180–230 million people).[7] Islam is the majority religion in several subregions: Central Asia, Western Asia, North Africa, West Africa, the Sahel, and the Middle East.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] The diverse Asia-Pacific region contains the highest number of Muslims in the world, surpassing the combined Middle East and North Africa.[15]
According to the Pew Research Center in 2010, there were 50 Muslim-majority countries.[16][17] Around 62% of the world's Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region (from Turkey to Indonesia), with over one billion adherents.[18] According to the Pew Research Center in 2017, the largest Muslim population in a country is in Indonesia, a country home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.1%), India (10.9%) and Bangladesh (9.2%).[8][19]
About 20% of Muslims live in the Arab world.[20] In the Middle East, Iran and Turkey are the largest Muslim-majority countries, while Egypt and Nigeria in Africa have the same status.[8][19]
Regional comparisons
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 adherents.[24]
The Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region hosts 23% of the world's Muslims, and Islam is the dominant religion in every country in the region[25] other than Israel.[9]
The country with the single largest population of Muslims is Indonesia in Southeast Asia, which on its own hosts 13% of the world's Muslims.[26] Together, the Muslims in the countries of Southeast Asia constitute the world's third-largest population of Muslims. In the countries of the Malay Archipelago, Muslims are in the majority in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
About 15% of Muslims reside in Sub-Saharan Africa,[27][page needed][10][28] and sizeable Muslim communities are also found in the Americas, Russia, China and Europe.[8]
Western Europe hosts many Muslim immigrant communities where Islam is the second-largest religion after Christianity, where it represents 6% of the total population or 24 million people.[29]
Denominations
Islam is divided into two major denominations, Sunni and Shi'a. Of the total Muslim population, 87–90% are Sunni and 10–13% are Shi'a. Most Shi'as (between 68% and 80%) live in mainly four countries: Iran, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, and Iraq.[30] Furthermore, there are concentrated Shi'a populations in Lebanon, Russia, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and 10 sub-Saharan African countries.[31] The major surviving Imamah-Muslim Sects are Usulism (with around 8.5% of the total Muslim population), Nizari Ismailism (with around 1%) and Alevism (with slightly more than 0.5%[32] but less than 1%[33]). The other existing groups include Zaydi Shi'a of Yemen whose population is around 0.5% of the world's Muslim population, Musta’li Ismaili (with nearly 0.1%[34] whose Taiyabi adherents reside in Sindh and Gujarat in South Asia. There are also significant diaspora populations in Europe, North America, the Far East, and East Africa[35]), and Ibadis from the Kharijites whose population has diminished to a level below 0.15%.[36] (with around 1%),[37] non-denominational Muslims, Quranist Muslims and Wahhabis (with around 1–2%[38] of the world's total Muslim population) also exist.
A study from the Pew Research Center in 2012 found that many Muslims (one out of five in 22 Muslim majority countries) identify as non-denominational or "Just a Muslim".[31] This non-denominational affiliation is most common in Southern and Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia, with minority populations in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The study found that a median percentage of 74% of Muslims in Kazakhstan, 65% in Albania, 64% in Kyrgyzstan, 56% in Indonesia, 55% in Mali, and 40% in Cameroon identify this way.[31] However, it is much less common in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.[31]
Countries
 | This section needs to be updated. (August 2020) |
Most of the percentages of Muslim populations of each country, if not stated otherwise, were taken from the study by the Pew Research Center report of 5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe, 2017.[8][39]
Table
| Country/Region | Total Population | Muslim Population | Muslim percentage of total population | Percentage of world (%) | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Afghanistan
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37,135,000 | 37,025,000 | 99.7 | 2.0 | [40] |
 Albania
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3,057,220 | 1,797,645 | 58.8 | 0.1 | [41][42] |
 Algeria
|
44,178,884 | 43,737,096 | 99 | 2.7 | [43] |
 American Samoa
|
50,826 | < 1,000 | < 0.1 | < 0.1 | [44] |
 Andorra
|
85,708 | 2,228 | 2.6 | < 0.1 | [45][46] |
 Angola
|
30,355,880 | 90,000 | 0.3 | < 0.1 | [47][48] |
 Anguilla
|
17,422 | < 1,000 | 0.6 | < 0.1 | [49] |
 Antigua and Barbuda
|
95,882 | < 1,000 | 0.3 | < 0.1 | [50] |
 Argentina
|
44,694,198 | 400,000 | 0.9 | < 1 | [51][48] |
 Armenia
|
3,038,217 | 1,038 | 0.03 | < 0.1 | [52] |
 Aruba
|
116,576 | < 1,000 | 0.4 | < 0.1 | [53][54] |
 Australia
|
25,700,000 | 813,392 | 3.2 | < 0.1 | [55] |
 Austria
|
9,000,000 | 720,000 | 8 | < 0.1 | [56][57] |
 Azerbaijan
|
10,353,296 | 10,073,758 | 97.3 | 0.5 | [58] |
 Bahamas
|
332,634 | < 1,000 | 0.1 | < 0.1 | [59] |
 Bahrain
|
1,442,659 | 1,063,239 | 73.7 | < 0.1 | [60] |
 Bangladesh
|
165,200,000 | 150,800,000 | 91.0 | 9.2 | [61][62] |
 Barbados
|
293,131 | 4,396 | 1.5 | < 0.1 | [63] |
 Belarus
|
9,527,543 | 45,000–100,000 | 0.5–1.0 | < 0.1 | [64][65][66] |
 Belgium
|
11,570,762 | 879,377 | 7.6 | < 0.1 | [67][68] |
 Belize
|
385,854 | < 1,000 | 0.2 | < 0.1 | [69][70] |
 Benin
|
11,340,504 | 3,141,319 | 27.7 | 0.14 | [71] |
 Bermuda
|
71,176 | < 1,000 | 1 | < 0.1 | [72] |
| 766,397 | ≤ 2,000 | 0.2 | < 0.1 | [73][74] | |
 Bolivia
|
11,306,341 | 2,000 | < 0.1 | < 0.1 | [75][76] |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
3,849,891 | 1,955,084 | 50.7 | 0.1 | [77] |
 Botswana
|
2,249,104 | 8,996 | 0.4 | < 0.1 | [78][79] |
 Brazil
|
210,000,000 | 35,167–1,500,000 | 0.02–0.7 | < 0.1 | [80][81] |
 British Virgin Islands
|
35,802 | < 1,000 | 1.2 | < 0.1 | [82] |
 Brunei
|
450,565 | 355,045 | 80.9 | < 0.1 | [83] |
 Bulgaria
|
7,057,504 | 861,015 | 13.4 | < 0.1 | [84][85] |
 Burkina Faso
|
21,382,659 | 13,513,840 | 63.8 | 0.6 | [86] |
 Burundi
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11,844,520 | 1,184,452 | 10 | < 0.1 | [87][88] |
 Cambodia
|
15,552,211 | 311,044 | 2 | < 0.1 | [89] |
 Cameroon
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25,640,965 | 7,692,289 | 30 | 0.4 | [90][91] |
 Canada
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36,328,480 | 1,775,715 | 4.9 | 0.1 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=List_of_Muslim-majority_countries
