The Muslim World

The Muslim population of the world is around one billion. 30% of Muslims live in the Indian subcontinent, 20% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 17% in Southeast Asia, 18% in the Arab World, 10% in the Soviet Union and China. Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan comprise 10% of the non-Arab Middle East. Although there are Muslim minorities in almost every area, including Latin America and Australia, they are most numerous in the Soviet Union, India, and central Africa. There are 5 million Muslims in the United States.


O mankind! We created you from a single soul, male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, so that you may come to know one another. Truly, the most honored of you in God's sight is the greatest of you in piety. God is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Quran, 49:13)

Muslim history involves the history of the Islamic faith as a religion and as a social institution. The history of Islam began in Arabia with the Islamic prophet Muhammad's first recitations of the Quran in the 7th century. Under the Rashidun and Umayyads, the Caliphate grew rapidly geographically expansion of Muslim power well beyond the Arabian Peninsula in the form of a vast Muslim Empire with an area of influence that stretched from northeast India, across Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, southern Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula, to the Pyrenees.
During much of the 20th century, the Islamic identity and the dominance of Islam on political issues have arguably increased during the early 21st century. The fast-growing interests of the Western world in Islamic regions, international conflicts and globalization have changed the influence of Islam on the world in contemporary history..
With the exception of India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, China and Russia, the majority of the population in the following countries are Muslim

• Indonesia 204,847,000 (88.1%)
• Pakistan 178,097,000 (96.4%)
• India 177,286,000 (14.6%)
• Bangladesh 145,312,000 (90.4%)
• Nigeria 75,728,000 (47.9%)
• Iran 74,819,000 (99.6%)
• Turkey 74,660,000 (98.6%)
• Egypt 73,746,000 (90%)
• Algeria 34,780,000 (98.2%)
• Morocco 32,381,000 (99.9%)
• Iraq 31,108,000 (98.9%)
• Sudan 30,855,000 (97%)

• Afghanistan 29,047,000 (99.8%)
• Ethiopia 28,721,000 (33.8%)
• Uzbekistan 26,833,000 (96.5%)
• Saudi Arabia 25,493,000 (97.1%)
• Yemen 24,023,000 (99.0%)
• China 23,308,000 (1.8%)
• Syria 20,895,000 (92.8%)
• Malaysia 17,139,000 (61.4%)
• Russia 16,379,000 (11.7%)
• Niger 15,627,000 (98.3%)