Islamic world

The Islamic world is the world-wide community of those who identify with Islam, known as Muslims, and who number approximately one-and-a-half billion people. Many Muslims not only live in, but also have an official status in the following regions:

Demographics

One quarter of the world population share Islam as an ethical tradition.

Related Topics:
World - Ethical tradition

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Muslims are the majority in 52 nations.

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They speak about 60 languages and come from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

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• 8 million Muslims in Canada and the United States
• 3 million Muslims in Latin and Central America
• 10 million Muslims in Western Europe, mostly in the UK, France, Germany
• 6.3 million Muslims in the Balkans, mostly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania and Republic of Macedonia
• 67 million Muslims in Turkey
• 284.4 million Muslims in the Arab League including Iraq (with about 15 million Shia, 60% of the population in Iraq)
• 254 million Muslims in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 67 million Muslims (90% of them Shia) in Iran
• 48.5 million Muslims in Central Asia - in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan - formerly republics of the Soviet Union.
• 26 million Muslims in Russia
• 28 million Muslims in Afghanistan
• 260 million Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh together
• 120 million Muslims in India - (second largest Muslim population in the world)
• 50 million Muslims in China
• 209 million Muslims in Indonesia(the largest Muslim country in the world)
• 30.0 million Muslims in the rest of South-East Asia, especially Malaysia
• A few in Japan, Mongolia, North Korea or the South Pacific
• close to 1.5 billion in total

See: Islam by country

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