Places with the most muslims

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Came across this. Interesting statistics taken from adherents.com. Some of these figures are kinda old. Check CIA Factbook for more accurate figures. smile

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

Top 10 Largest National Muslim Populations

Indonesia 170,310,000
Pakistan 154,420,445 (updated)
Bangladesh 106,050,000
India 127,808,472 (updated)
Turkey 62,410,000
Iran 60,790,000
Egypt 53,730,000
Nigeria 47,720,000
China 37,108,000

U.S. States With Highest Proportion of Muslims in the Population

New York 0.80% (this is less than 1%)
California 0.60
New Jersey 0.60
Washington, D.C. 0.60
Illinois 0.40
Massachusetts 0.40
Ohio 0.40
Rhode Island 0.40

This data set is from the 1990 National Survey of Religious Identification, conducted by the City University of New York, based on self-identification, as collected through a nationwide phone survey of 113,000 people.

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what a surprise…
bahrain tops the list… :k:

i told ya we bahrainis r really doing a good job… :slight_smile:

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im not sure how accurate it is tho. Oman figures that has dominantly hindu expats constituting arnd 60 percent of the workforce.

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It's not accurate. He said "Listed Alphabeticcally".

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u should read this book, death of the west

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Ha and I don’t know about these countries

Comoros
Maldives (I have a little idea now due to the thread in Image 1 )
Mauritania
Mayotte

And people always said India’s muslim population is more than Pakistans’. :konfused:

Surprise to see Pakistan second.

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armughal, its by alphabetical order.

little human, I was surprised as well, as I used to read that India has more muslims than Pakistan. But then these statistics are from 1997. Even then I thought India had more muslims. Will try looking it up elsewhere. Insha'Allah.

Tikhi, whats the book about?

ravage, the statistics for that are from 1997, perhaps things have changed since. Not sure.

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Okay I just checked the CIA World Factbook and Pakistan does have more muslims than India. India has 12% muslim population, whereas Pakistan has 97% muslim population. Therefore, there are around 127,808,472 muslims in India and 154,420,445 muslims in Pakistan.

Oman population total is 2,903,165, and it says this about its religious population: Ibadhi Muslim 75%, Sunni Muslim, Shi'a Muslim, Hindu.
So I am guessing it means 75% are Ibadhi muslim, whatever that means. And that would be about 2,177,373 Ibadhi muslims.

Bahrain has 677,886 total population. The factbook listed the religious affiliation as 70% Shi'a and 30% Sunni muslim. I would not have guessed Bahrain is mostly Shi'aa. I thought only Iran and maybe Iraq was. Interesting.

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India having more Muslims than Pakistan is a big propaganda that people have believed.

BTW, I though in UAE there were more Hindus than Muslims.

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*Originally posted by Islamabad: *
India having more Muslims than Pakistan is a big propaganda that people have believed.

BTW, I though in UAE there were more Hindus than Muslims.
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UAE according to CIA World Factbook has population of 2,523,915. They have 96% muslim population (16% Shi'aa). 96% is 2,422,958 muslims. It also says UAE has 50% South Asian population, but I guess they are mostly muslims. Unless I am not calculating the religious affiliation correctly. This is what it says for UAE:

Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982)

note: less than 20% are UAE citizens (1982)

Religions:

Muslim 96% (Shi'a 16%), Christian, Hindu, and other 4%

Am I doing this correctly? confused

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Munni: *

Bahrain has 677,886 total population. The factbook listed the religious affiliation as 70% Shi'a and 30% Sunni muslim. I would not have guessed Bahrain is mostly Shi'aa. I thought only Iran and maybe Iraq was. Interesting.
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the shiaas in bahrain r either persians (who still speak the persian language) or decendants of the persians (who dont speak the persian language any more)....
bahrain was once occupied by iran and up to the begining of the last century iran did claim that it was a part of iran....

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thnx 4 sharing :)

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Re: Places with the most muslims

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Originally posted by Munni: *
Came across this. Interesting statistics taken from adherents.com. Some of these figures are kinda old. Check CIA Factbook for more accurate figures. *smile

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

Top 10 Largest National Muslim Populations

Indonesia 170,310,000
Pakistan 154,420,445 (updated)
Bangladesh 106,050,000
India 127,808,472 (updated)
Turkey 62,410,000
Iran 60,790,000
Egypt 53,730,000
Nigeria 47,720,000
China 37,108,000

U.S. States With Highest Proportion of Muslims in the Population

New York 0.80% (this is less than 1%)
California 0.60
New Jersey 0.60
Washington, D.C. 0.60
Illinois 0.40
Massachusetts 0.40
Ohio 0.40
Rhode Island 0.40

This data set is from the 1990 National Survey of Religious Identification, conducted by the City University of New York, based on self-identification, as collected through a nationwide phone survey of 113,000 people.
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Source?

www.what.com

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source = adherents.com