Muslim Majority Countries 2021

 Islam is an Abrahamic, monotheistic faith. Scholars date its creation to the 7th century, but its roots are believed to date back further. Islam is regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah. Followers of the Islamic faith are Muslims.

 

The Quran is Islam's religious text, which Muslims believe to be God's verbatim words and the teaching and normative examples of Muhammad. Muslims also follow a legal system known as Sharia Law, which a faith-cased code of conduct instructing Muslims how to live in almost every aspect of their lives.

 

Muslims follow five fundamental pillars that are essential to their faith:

 

Shahada: to declare one's faith in God and belief in Muhammad

Salat: to pray five times per day - at dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset, and evening

Zakat: to give to those in need

Saw: to fast during Ramadan

Hajj: to make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once during a person's lifetime if the person can

Islam is the world's second-largest religion, with over 1.9 billion Muslims. It is also the world's fastest-growing religion. The Islam population is mainly split between 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims and 240-340 million Shia Muslims with some others belonging to smaller denominations.

 

The Muslim population in each country varies greatly. A Muslim-majority country is a nation where the religion of Islam is widespread. These nations are collectively known as the Muslim world or the Islamic world. There are no universal rules that identify what makes a Muslim-majority country. However, many people go by the standard that a Muslim population of more than 50% constitutes a Muslim-majority nation.

According to the Pew Research Center, there are a total of 50 Muslim-majority nations in the world. However, according to World Atlas, there are 45 Islamic countries. Further data shows that these nations contribute about 8% of the world's nominal GDP. The region with the most Muslims is the Middle East-North Africa region. Other areas with large percentages of Muslims include Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia-Oceania. Smaller percentages live in the Americas and Europe.

 

Indonesia has the highest Muslim population 229 million, followed by Pakistan with 200 million and india with 195 million.

Country

Muslim Population

2021 Population

Muslim % of Total Population

Indonesia            229,000,000        276,361,783        87.20%

Pakistan               200,400,000        225,199,937        96.50%

Bangladesh         153,700,000        166,303,498        90.40%

Egypt     87,500,000           104,258,327        92.35%

Iran        82,500,000           85,028,759           99.40%

Turkey  79,850,000           85,042,738           99.20%

Algeria  41,240,913           44,616,624           99.00%

Sudan   39,585,777           44,909,353           97.00%

Iraq        38,465,864           41,179,350           95.70%

Morocco              37,930,989           37,344,795           99.00%

Afghanistan        34,836,014           39,835,428           99.60%

Saudi Arabia       31,878,000           35,340,683           97.10%

Yemen  27,784,498           30,490,640           99.10%

Uzbekistan         26,550,000           33,935,763           96.50%

Niger     21,101,926           25,130,817           98.30%

Mali       17,508,398           20,855,735           95.00%

Syria      16,700,000           18,275,702           93.00%

Malaysia              16,318,355           32,776,194           61.30%

Senegal                15,112,721           17,196,301           96.10%

Kazakhstan         13,158,672           18,994,962           70.20%

Burkina Faso      12,141,769           21,497,096           61.50%

Tunisia  11,190,000           11,935,766           99.80%

Somalia                10,978,000           16,359,504           99.80%

Guinea 10,563,171           13,497,244           89.10%

Jordan  10,165,577           10,269,021           97.20%

Azerbaijan          9,735,074             10,223,342           96.90%

Chad      9,183,207             16,914,985           58.00%

Tajikistan             7,621,700             9,749,627             96.70%

Libya      6,551,871             6,958,532             97.00%

Sierra Leone       6,067,706             8,141,343             78.60%

Turkmenistan    4,830,000             6,117,924             93.30%

Kyrgyzstan          4,679,436             6,628,356             80.00%

United Arab Emirates     4,615,081             9,991,089             76.00%

Palestine             4,298,000             5,222,748             97.50%

Mauritania          3,840,429             4,775,119             100.00%

Lebanon              3,519,743             6,769,146             57.70%

Oman    2,427,000             5,223,375             85.90%

Kuwait  2,175,684             4,328,550             74.60%

Gambia                2,002,743             2,486,945             95.70%

Bosnia And Herzegovina               1,955,084             3,263,466             50.70%

Albania 1,797,645             2,872,933             58.80%

Qatar     1,566,786             2,930,528             77.50%

Bahrain 1,063,239             1,748,296             73.70%

Djibouti                857,496 1,002,187             97.00%

Comoros              807,204 888,451 98.30%

Western Sahara                599,633 611,875 99.40%

Maldives              386,193 543,617 98.40%

Brunei   355,045 441,532 78.80%

Mayotte              253,439 279,515 97.00%

Sources

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