President Michael Dimock explains why. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. Try our email course on Muslims and Islam Learn about Muslims and Islam through four short lessons delivered to your inbox every other day.
Share this link:. Facts are more important than ever. Why Muslims are the world's fastest-growing religious group. Pew Forum researchers, in consultation with nearly 50 demographers and social scientists at universities and research centers around the world, acquired and analyzed about 1, sources, including census reports, demographic studies and general population surveys, to arrive at these figures — the largest project of its kind to date.
See Methodology for more detail. Data on sectarian affiliation have been infrequently collected or, in many countries, not collected at all. Therefore, the Sunni and Shia numbers reported here are expressed as broad ranges and should be treated as approximate. These findings on the world Muslim population lay the foundation for a forthcoming study by the Pew Forum, scheduled to be released in , that will estimate growth rates among Muslim populations worldwide and project Muslim populations into the future.
The Pew Forum plans to launch a similar study of global Christianity in as well. The Pew Forum also plans to conduct in-depth public opinion surveys on the intersection of religion and public life around the world, starting with a country survey of sub-Saharan Africa scheduled to be released later this year.
Only countries with more than 1 million Muslims are shown Muslim population, the percentage of its population that is Muslim and the percentage of the world Muslim population it represents.
Figures are rounded to the nearest million. Click to enlarge. Download the map. Two-thirds of all Muslims worldwide live in the 10 countries shown below. Of the roughly million Muslims living as minorities, about million — about three-quarters — live in five countries: India million , Ethiopia 28 million , China 22 million , Russia 16 million and Tanzania 13 million.
Two of the 10 countries with the largest number of Muslims living as minorities are in Europe: Russia 16 million and Germany 4 million. These minority populations are often quite large.
For example, India, a Hindu-majority country, has the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide. The Muslim population of Ethiopia is about as large as that of Afghanistan. Of the countries and territories included in this study, 50 are Muslim-majority. The Middle East-North Africa region contains the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries compared with other regions. This report estimates that there are between million and million Shia Muslims in the world today.
Overall, there are about 2. That gap is expected to narrow by , when Pew Research Center projects there will be 3 billion Christians and nearly 3 billion Muslims. Learn about Muslims and Islam through four short lessons delivered to your inbox every other day. Sign up now! The lists for Muslims and Christians are also expected to change in other ways. By , India is expected to supplant Indonesia as the country with the largest Muslim population. The country with the highest Christian population, the United States, is expected to remain in that position in Lower down on the list, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya are expected to be added, while Russia, Germany and China will fall out of the top Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that the United States is expected to remain the country with the highest Christian population in Fresh data delivered Saturday mornings.
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