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Description of the Subject: Muslim Population: Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Egypt (Master, Doctorate)

- Muslim population: 1.57 billion people (23% of the world's population - 6.8 billion), 20% of the World's population.

- Only 15% of Muslims are Arab (Middle East)

- 62% of the World Muslim population lives in Asia and 20% in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa)

- 300 million Muslims, live in countries where Islam is not the largest religion: China (more Muslims than in Syria), India (the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide), Russia (more Muslims than in Jordan and Libya).

Countries with the largest Muslim Populations:

Country Million Indonesia 203 Pakistan 174 India 161 Bangladesh 145 Egypt 79 Nigeria 78 Iran 74 Turkey 74 Algeria 34 Morocco 32 Iraq 30 Sudan 30 Afghanistan 28 Ethiopia 28 Uzbekistan 26 Saudi Arabia 25 Yemen 23 China 22 Syria 20 Russia 16

Estimated

Muslim

population 2009 % of Muslim pop. % of the world

Muslim pop. Asia-Pacific 972,537,000 24,1 61,9 MENA (Middle East and North Africa) 315,322,000 92,1 20,1 Sub-Saharan Africa 240,632,000 30,1 15,3 Europe 38,112,000 5,2 2,4 Americas 4,596,000 0,5 0,3 World total 1,571,198,000 22,9 100

The countries with the largest Number of Muslims Living as Minorities.

Estimated

Muslim Population Percentage of

Population that

is Muslim Percentage of

World Muslim

Population India 160,945,000 13.4% 10.3% Ethiopia 28,063,000 33.9 1.8 China 21,667,000 1.6 1.4 Russia 16,482,000 11.7 1.0 Tanzania 13,218,000 30.2 0.8 Ivory Coast 7,745,000 36.7 0.5 Mozambique 5,224,000 22.8 0.3 the Philippines 4,654,000 5.1 0.3 Germany* 4,026,000 ~5 <1 Uganda 3,958,000 12.1 0.3

Source: Pew Research centre's Forum on Religion.

Note: in orange, countries with more than 5 million Muslims.

Source: Pop. Data - CIA World Fact book

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