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In 1900 Muslims only numbered 200 million followers or 12% of the world population. This percentage drastically increased over the last 100 years due to higher birth rate in Muslim majority countries. Pew Research have estimated the number will be around 2.2 billion in 2030 and 2.8 billion, or 30 percent of world population, in 2050.
World Muslim population by percentage (2014 estimate) Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest religious group. A projection by the PEW suggests that Muslims numbered approximately 1.9 billion followers in 2020.
The population of the Arab world as estimated in 2022 was 464.68 million inhabitants, But there's no exact figures of the annual population growth, fertility rate, or mortality rate are known to exist.
2.382 billion: 31.0%: Islam: 1.907 billion: 24.9%: Secular /Nonreligious /Agnostic/Atheist: 1.193 billion: 15.58%: Hinduism: 1.161 billion: 15.2%: Buddhism: 506 million: 6.6%: Chinese traditional religion: 394 million: 5.6%: Ethnic religions excluding some in separate categories 300 million: 3%: African traditional religions: 100 million: 1.2% ...
More than 24.1% of the world's population is Muslim, with an estimated total of approximately 1.9 billion. [178] [179] [180] [181] [182] Muslims are the majority in 49 countries, [183] [184] they speak hundreds of languages and come from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
According to the same study, Muslims population growth is twice of world's overall population growth due to young age and relatively high fertility rate and as a result Muslims are projected to rise to 30% (2050) of the world's population from 23% (2010).
Demographics. World Muslim population by percentage (2012) Muslim distribution worldwide (2022) The most populous Muslim-majority country is Indonesia, home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, [102] followed by Pakistan (11.0%), Bangladesh (9.2%), Nigeria (5.3%) and Egypt (4.9%). [60]
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation; based on civil registration data in 2022 from Ministry of Home Affairs, 87.02% of Indonesians are Muslims, 10.49% Christians (7.43% Protestants, 3.06% Roman Catholic ), 1.69% Hindu, 0.73% Buddhists, 0.03% Confucians and 0.04% other faiths. [20]
High, medium, and low projections of the future human world population. In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022.
This is a list of 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation sorted by their estimated population. 10 countries ( Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Suriname, Togo and Uganda) are not Muslim-majority, but they are members of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation .