Islamic Population Tops 1.5 Billion
- 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.
- Germany appears to have more than 4 million Muslims — almost as many as North and South America combined.
- (Of) 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.
Pew intends to do a study of Christianity beginning next year. No word if that study will take as long to complete.
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