Top 10 Largest
National Muslim Populations
|
Country |
Number
of Muslims |
|
Indonesia |
170,310,000 |
|
Pakistan |
136,000,000 |
|
Bangladesh |
106,050,000 |
|
India |
103,000,000 |
|
Turkey |
62,410,000 |
|
Iran |
60,790,000 |
|
Egypt |
53,730,000 |
|
Nigeria |
47,720,000 |
|
China |
37,108,000 |
Note:
China should clearly be included among the top 10 largest national Muslim
communities, although it was not on the list in Russell Ash's book, which is the
main source of information for this list. Reliable religious statistics are
difficult to obtain from this Communist nation, and the actual number of Muslims
in China may be greater than the figure presented above. Mojtaba Shabani wrote
to Adherents.com with the following comments:
The Muslim
population in China is 11% by Muslim sources. This is based on the fact the
ethnic "Hui" group are predominantly Muslim, and 9% of the population belong to
this group. And then there are Uigurs and other Turkic people in addition to
that, mostly in northwestern China, who constitute the remaining 2%... 11% would
be around 120 million.
World's Most
Muslim Nations
The
populations of the following countries are almost entirely Muslim (About 99.5%
or more of the native populations, and nearly all of the foreign workers, are
Muslim.) Listed alphabetically.
- Bahrain
- Comoros
- Kuwait
-
Maldives
-
Mauritania
- Mayotte
- Morocco
- Oman
- Qatar
- Somalia
- Saudi
Arabia
- Tunisia
- United
Arab Emirates
- Western
Sahara
- Yemen
Major
Branches of Islam
|
Branch |
Number of Adherents |
|
Sunni |
940,000,000 |
|
Shiite |
120,000,000 |
|
Ahmadiyya |
10,000,000
* |
|
Druze |
450,000 |
Source:
www.adherents.com |
