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The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam, according to a report Wednesday billed as the most comprehensive of its kind.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report provides a precise number for a population whose size has long has been subject to guesswork, with estimates ranging anywhere from 1 billion to 1.8 billion.
The project, three years in the making, also presents a portrait of the Muslim world that might surprise some. For instance, Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon, China has more Muslims than Syria, Russia has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined, and Ethiopia has nearly as many Muslims as Afghanistan.
"This whole idea that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims is really just obliterated by this report," said Amaney Jamal, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University who reviewed an advance copy.
Pew officials call the report the most thorough on the size and distribution of adherents of the world's second largest religion behind Christianity, which has an estimated 2.1 billion to 2.2 billion followers.
The arduous task of determining the Muslim populations in 232 countries and territories involved analyzing census reports, demographic studies and general population surveys, the report says. In cases where the data was a few years old, researchers projected 2009 numbers.
The report also sought to pinpoint the world's Sunni-Shiite breakdown, but difficulties arose because so few countries track sectarian affiliation, said Brian Grim, the project's senior researcher.
As a result, the Shiite numbers are not as precise; the report estimates that Shiites represent between 10 and 13 percent of the Muslim population, in line with or slightly lower than other studies. As much as 80 percent of the world's Shiite population lives in four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.
The report provides further evidence that while the heart of Islam might beat in the Middle East, its greatest numbers lie in Asia: More than 60 percent of the world's Muslims live in Asia.
About 20 percent live in the Middle East and North Africa, 15 percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2.4 percent are in Europe and 0.3 percent are in the Americas. While the Middle East and North Africa have fewer Muslims overall than Asia, the region easily claims the most Muslim-majority countries.
While those population trends are well established, the large numbers of Muslims who live as minorities in countries aren't as scrutinized. The report identified about 317 million Muslims — or one-fifth of the world's Muslim population — living in countries where Islam is not the majority religion.
About three-quarters of Muslims living as minorities are concentrated in five countries: India (161 million), Ethiopia (28 million), China (22 million), Russia (16 million) and Tanzania (13 million).
In several of these countries — from India to Nigeria and China to France — divisions featuring a volatile mix of religion, class and politics have contributed to tension and bloodshed among groups.
The immense size of majority-Hindu India is underscored by the fact that it boasts the third-largest Muslim population of any nation — yet Muslims account for just 13 percent of India's population.
"Most people think of the Muslim world being Muslims living mostly in Muslim-majority countries," Grim said. "But with India ... that sort of turns that on its head a bit."
Among the report's other highlights:
• Two-thirds of all Muslims live in 10 countries. Six are in Asia (Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Iran and Turkey), three are in North Africa (Egypt, Algeria and Morocco) and one is in sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria).
• Indonesia, which has a tradition of a more tolerant Islam, has the world's largest Muslim population (203 million, or 13 percent of the world's total). Religious extremists have been involved in several high-profile bombings there in recent years.
• In China, the highest concentrations of Muslims were in western provinces. The country experienced its worst outbreak of ethnic violence in decades when rioting broke out this summer between minority Muslim Uighurs and majority Han Chinese.
• Europe is home to about 38 million Muslims, or about five percent of its population. Germany appears to have more than 4 million Muslims — almost as many as North and South America combined. In France, where tensions have run high over an influx of Muslim immigrant laborers, the overall numbers were lower but a larger percentage of the population is Muslim.
• Of roughly 4.6 million Muslims in the Americas, more than half live in the United States although they only make up 0.8 percent of the population there. About 700,000 people in Canada are Muslim, or about 2 percent of the total population.
A future Pew Forum project, scheduled to be released in 2010, will build on the report's data to estimate growth rates among Muslim populations and project future trends.
A similar study on global Christianity is planned to begin next year.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091008/ap_on_re_us/us_rel_muslim_population
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Pakistan already has 174 million? I thought it's about 140 million..
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This is a plague! The Muslim population is exploding. They're breeding like rabbits.
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Hmm I thought that Pakistan was for India's Muslims. So why is there nearly as much in India than Pakistan?
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Hmm I thought that Pakistan was for India's Muslims. So why is there nearly as much in India than Pakistan?
They rather live in a country more up to date then there zoo
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Hmm I thought that Pakistan was for India's Muslims. So why is there nearly as much in India than Pakistan?
They rather live in a country more up to date then there zoo
Are the people of India allowed to move to Pakistan and practice Hindu?
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Hmm I thought that Pakistan was for India's Muslims. So why is there nearly as much in India than Pakistan?
They rather live in a country more up to date then there zoo
Are the people of India allowed to move to Pakistan and practice Hindu?
There are hindus in Pakiland
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Following the creation of Pakistan, and the subsequent mass migrations, Hindus today have a much smaller numerical presence. Nonetheless Hindus have played a major role in the history, culture and politics of the country.
The term Hindu is etymologically derived from the Sindhu (Indus River) of Pakistan. The Sindhu is one of the holy rivers of Hinduism. Thus, in many ways, the land which is today's predominantly Muslim Pakistan has played an important part in the origin of Hinduism. In terms of population, Pakistan has the fifth largest population of Hindus.
The future for Pakistani Hindus
The increasing Islamisation of Pakistan and antagonism against a majority Hindu. Pakistan has forced many Hindus to leave Hinduism and convert to Islam. Such Islamisation include the blasphemy laws, which make it dangerous for religious minorities to express themselves freely and engage freely in religious and cultural activities. The promulgation of Sharia, Quranic law has also increased the marginalization of Hindus and other minorities. Following the destruction in 1992 of the Babri Mosque in India, riots and persecution of Hindus in retaliation has only increased; Hindus in Pakistan are routinely affected by communal incidents in India and violent developments on the Kashmir conflict between the two nations. It remains the hope of many that a permanent peace between the two nations will go a long way in making life better for the roughly 3 million Hindus living in Pakistan. The 1998 census recorded 2,443,614 Hindus in Pakistan. Reports from Pakistan indicate that Hindu minorities under Taliban rule in Swat are being forced to wear Red headgear such as turbans to make it easier for the Islamic militants to target them for discrimination. In light of these deprivations, Pakistani Hindu minorities have started fleeing to India.
Everything good starts with end of Papistan666.
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This is a plague! The Muslim population is exploding. They're breeding like rabbits.
Muslims are breeding like rabbits so they can take over......my conclusion is either the muslims are going to be forced back to their islamic Countries, or we can all say goodbye to the World as we knew it. There is nothing in the middle.
Shalom - Dox
P.S. Plague is correct!
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Pakistan already has 174 million? I thought it's about 140 million..
Pakistan has 180 million people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Pakistan
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Pakistan already has 174 million? I thought it's about 140 million..
Pakistan has 180 million people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Pakistan
Are you sure they are all muslim
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All Muslims are enemies of Righteous gentiles and Jews everywhere. We need to get reproducing so that we are not outnumbered in the future. I wish every Jew a family of two to eight children... We need to get going having babies or we are dead already...
PS: Dont listen to liberal crybabies talking about overpopulation... This is a myth..
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All Muslims are enemies of Righteous gentiles and Jews everywhere. We need to get reproducing so that we are not outnumbered in the future. I wish every Jew a family of two to eight children... We need to get going having babies or we are dead already...
PS: Dont listen to liberal crybabies talking about overpopulation... This is a myth..
Yes, and let Muslims have a modern, enlightened families of zero to one children :)
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Pakistan already has 174 million? I thought it's about 140 million..
Pakistan has 180 million people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Pakistan
Are you sure they are all muslim
Not all of Pakistan's people are Muslim. There are some Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs and other minorities living there.
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Pakistan already has 174 million? I thought it's about 140 million..
Pakistan has 180 million people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Pakistan
Are you sure they are all muslim
Not all of Pakistan's people are Muslim. There are some Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs and other minorities living there.
The 174 was the muslims living in Pakiland
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All Muslims are enemies of Righteous gentiles and Jews everywhere. We need to get reproducing so that we are not outnumbered in the future. I wish every Jew a family of two to eight children... We need to get going having babies or we are dead already...
PS: Dont listen to liberal crybabies talking about overpopulation... This is a myth..
Same goes for America and Europe. The Christians as well as the Jews need to reproduce or they'll eventually overtaken by the Muslims.
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Pakistan already has 174 million? I thought it's about 140 million..
When the average Islamic family size is like ten children per woman, populations grow quickly.
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Hmm I thought that Pakistan was for India's Muslims. So why is there nearly as much in India than Pakistan?
Actually it's even worse than that; if you count Tamils as Muslims, then India is the most massive Islamic nation in the world.
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Hmm I thought that Pakistan was for India's Muslims. So why is there nearly as much in India than Pakistan?
Actually it's even worse than that; if you count Tamils as Muslims, then India is the most massive Islamic nation in the world.
except no one counts them as muslims except you
here comes the ignorance again.
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This is really disgusting and scary. If you imagine you live with them on one planet.
I am glad there are 2,3 billion Christians, around 889 million Hindus and 13,5 million Jews. Together we could defeat them!
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India has more than 200 million muslims easily. Believe me guys. more than 50 million muslims are unaccounted, other 150 million are legally staying.
Also i have read from a credible media report that there are actually more mosques in India than in any other Islam nation.
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except no one counts them as muslims except you
here comes the ignorance again.
Where've you been the past few weeks? Standing in front of Israeli bulldozers?
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cockroaches.