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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%).
There are more than two billion Muslims worldwide, making Islam the second-largest religion in the world, exceeded only by Christianity. In fact, many researchers project that Muslims will outnumber Christians by the year 2050.
Today, Muslims can be found in nearly every country on Earth. Some of these countries, however, have a larger population than others. The top ten largest Muslim populations can be found in: Indonesia (204,847,000), Pakistan (178,000,000), India (172,000,000), Bangladesh (145,607,000), Nigeria (93,839,000), Iran (74,819,000), Turkey (74,660,000 ...
The Islamic population is mainly split between 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims and 240-340 million Shia Muslims, with the remainder scattered among a few smaller denominations. A Muslim-majority country is one in which more than 50% of the people are Muslims.
More than 24.1% of the world's population is Muslim, with an estimated total of approximately 1.9 billion. [ 181 ][ 182 ][ 183 ][ 184 ][ 185 ] Muslims are the majority in 49 countries, [ 186 ][ 187 ] they speak hundreds of languages and come from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
In 2022, Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims worldwide with around 241.5 million. This was followed with around 225.6 million Muslims in Pakistan and 211.16 million Muslims in...
Interactive Data Table: World Muslim Population by Country. *Data for some countries come primarily from general population surveys which are less reliable than censuses or large-scale demographic and health surveys for estimating minority-majority ratios (see Methodology).
All data collected from authentic sources and calculated the Muslim population in each countries and continents.
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.
The number of Muslims around the world is projected to increase rapidly in the decades ahead, growing from about 1.6 billion in 2010 to nearly 2.8 billion in 2050. 40 Muslims are expected to grow twice as fast as the overall global population.