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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007) | The following table analyzes the Demographics of Islam as of mid-year 2005.
 Distribution of Islam per country. Green represents a Sunni majority and blue represents a Shia majority.
 Map showing distribution of Shia and Sunni Muslims in Africa, Asia and Europe.
 Map showing some Core areas of maliki, Shafi, Hanbalis and Hanafi Muslims in Africa, Asia and Europe. Image File history File links Islam-by-country-smooth. ...
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Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ...
Shiʻa Islam (Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite) makes up the second largest sect of believers in Islam, constituting about 30%–35% of all Muslim. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 420 pixelsFull resolution (2480 × 1302 pixel, file size: 417 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The corrected map of muslim distribution (Karachi and surrounding area was incorrectly shown as a shia area). ...
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Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 420 pixelsFull resolution (2480 × 1302 pixel, file size: 483 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Approximate map of the distribution of the four Sunni madhhab schools of legal interpretation. ...
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Discrepancy
The exact percentage of the world's Muslim population that adheres to the various Shi'a sects, as opposed to the majority Sunni group, is indeterminate. No Sunni-Shi'a breakdown is available for many countries. The CIA World Factbook gives a Sunni-Shi'a breakdown only for countries where Shi'a are a significant minority. When no breakdown is given, all the country's Muslims have been enrolled, provisionally, in the Sunni column. This is certain to have exaggerated the proportion of Sunni Muslims. Much further work will be required before the Sunni-Shi'a statistics given here can be considered reliable. At present, the figures indicate 85% Sunni and 15% Shi'a. Shia Islam ( Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite or Shiite) is the second largest Islamic denomination; some 20-25% of all Muslims are said to follow a Shia tradition. ...
Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ...
World Factbook 2004 cover The World Factbook is an annual publication by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with basic almanac-style information about the various countries of the world. ...
The Muslim Population of the Middle East[1]
No columns have been provided for other sects, such as the Ibadi branch of Islam. Ibadis are found primarily in Oman. Al-IbÄá¸iyyah (Arabic الاباضية) is a form of Islam distinct from the Shiite and Sunni denominations. ...
There is also discrepancy between the Muslim total derived from adding up the figures for the various countries (1,363,000,000) and the Muslim total given by the CIA World Factbook (1,283,000,000). The CIA estimates that Muslims constitute some 20.12% of the world population. If the larger figure is used, the percentage would be 23.1%. The discrepancy may be due to rounding errors, since in many cases the Muslim population was calculated from the general population multiplied by the Muslim percentage. Replacing the CIA figures with figures from national censuses, if available, could reduce this discrepancy. World Factbook 2004 cover The World Factbook is an annual publication by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with basic almanac-style information about the various countries of the world. ...
Note on percentages The percent of total Indian population that is Muslim has grown by 0.84 percent points during the period 1991-2001: from 12.60% (12.20% per 1991 Census figure adjusted for areas missed in 1991 Census) to 13.43% in the 2001 census. If we assume that this same trend continued in the years 2001-2005, we can estimate that 13.80% of the Indian population was Muslim in 2005. The table uses this estimate.
Data Data is estimated as of mid-2005 for countries with the largest Muslim population, representing about 92% of the total world Muslim population. | Country | Population | Muslim (%) | Muslim | Shia to Muslim (%) | Shia Population | Sunni to Muslim (%) | Sunni Population | | Saudi Arabia | 24,600,000 | 100% | 24,600,000 | 17% | 2,460,000 | 83% | 22,140,000 | | Turkey | 72,900,000 | 99% | 72,750,000 | 25% | 14,550,000 | 75% | 58,200,000 | | Algeria | 32,800,000 | 99% | 32,472,000 | 10% | 1,298,880 | 90% | 31,173,120 | | Morocco | 30,700,000 | 99% | 30,393,000 | 10% | 607,860 | 90% | 29,785,140 | | Afghanistan | 29,900,000 | 99% | 29,601,000 | 28% | 5,328,180 | 72% | 24,272,820 | | Yemen | 20,700,000 | 99% | 20,680,000 | 60% | 8,685,600 | 40% | 11,994,400 | | Somalia | 8,600,000 | 99% | 8,600,000 | 10% | 86,000 | 90% | 8,514,000 | | Mauritania | 3,100,000 | 99% | 3,100,000 | 10% | 31,000 | 90% | 3,069,000 | | Kuwait | 2,600,000 | 99% | 2,600,000 | 48% | 910,000 | 52% | 1,690,000 | | Oman | 2,400,000 | 99% | 2,376,000 | 5% | 118,800 | 55% | 1,306,800 | | Bahrain | 700,000 | 99% | 700,000 | 80% | 490,000 | 20% | 210,000 | | Maldives | 300,000 | 99% | 300,000 | 15% | 15,000 | 85% | 285,000 | | Western Sahara | 300,000 | 99% | 300,000 | 15% | 9,000 | 85% | 291,000 | | Iran | 69,500,000 | 98% | 68,805,000 | 96% | 61,924,500 | 2% | 6,880,500 | | Tunisia | 10,000,000 | 98% | 9,800,000 | 10% | 196,000 | 90% | 9,604,000 | | Comoros | 700,000 | 98% | 686,000 | 7% | 6,860 | 93% | 679,140 | | Pakistan | 165,803,560 | 98% | 160,829,450 | 30% | 33,160,712 | 70% | 127,668,738 | | Iraq | 28,800,000 | 97% | 27,936,000 | 75% | 18,158,400 | 25% | 9,777,600 | | Niger | 14,000,000 | 97% | 13,580,000 | 10% | 407,400 | 90% | 13,172,600 | | Libya | 5,800,000 | 97% | 5,626,000 | 10% | 56,260 | 90% | 5,569,740 | | Azerbaijan | 8,587,000 | 98% | 8,329,390 | 94% | 7,329,863 | 6% | 999,526 | | UAE | 4,600,000 | 96% | 4,416,000 | 25% | 662,400 | 75% | 3,753,600 | | Gambia | 1,600,000 | 95% | 1,520,000 | 10% | 30,400 | 90% | 1,489,600 | | Qatar | 800,000 | 95% | 760,000 | 20% | 76,000 | 80% | 684,000 | | Egypt | 74,000,000 | 94% | 69,560,000 | 5% | 695,600 | 95% | 68,864,400 | | Senegal | 11,700,000 | 94% | 10,998,000 | 15% | 549,900 | 85% | 10,448,100 | | Jordan | 5,800,000 | 94% | 5,452,000 | 10% | 109,040 | 90% | 5,342,960 | | Djibouti | 800,000 | 94% | 752,000 | 5% | 7,520 | 95% | 744,480 | | Syria | 18,400,000 | 90% | 16,560,000 | 30% | 2,484,000 | 70% | 14,076,000 | | Tajikistan | 6,800,000 | 90% | 6,120,000 | 15% | 306,000 | 85% | 5,814,000 | | Turkmenistan | 5,200,000 | 89% | 4,628,000 | 15% | 185,120 | 85% | 4,442,880 | | Indonesia | 221,900,000 | 88% | 195,272,000 | 5% | 1,952,720 | 95% | 193,319,280 | | Bangladesh | 147,365,000 | 88% | 129,681,509 | 10% | 6,484,075 | 90% | 123,197,434 | | Uzbekistan | 26,400,000 | 88% | 23,232,000 | 10% | 1,393,920 | 90% | 21,838,080 | | Guinea | 9,500,000 | 85% | 8,075,000 | 7% | 242,250 | 93% | 7,832,750 | | Kyrgyzstan | 5,200,000 | 75% | 3,900,000 | 10% | 117,000 | 90% | 3,783,000 | | Sudan | 40,200,000 | 73% | 29,346,000 | 10% | 586,920 | 90% | 28,759,080 | | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 4,500,000 | 60% | 2,700,000 | 15% | 189,000 | 85% | 2,511,000 | | Ivory Coast | 18,200,000 | 60% | 10,920,000 | 10% | 436,800 | 90% | 10,483,200 | | Lebanon | 3,800,000 | 55% | 2,104,310 | 75% | 1,200,000 | 25% | 850,000 | | Nigeria | 131,500,000 | 50% | 65,750,000 | 10% | 3,287,500 | 90% | 62,462,500 | | Tanzania | 36,500,000 | 50% | 18,250,000 | 10% | 1,095,000 | 90% | 17,155,000 | | Burkina Faso | 13,900,000 | 50% | 6,950,000 | 10% | 208,500 | 90% | 6,741,500 | | Eritrea | 4,700,000 | 50% | 2,350,000 | 5% | 23,500 | 95% | 2,326,500 | | Kazakhstan | 15,100,000 | 47% | 7,097,000 | 15% | 354,850 | 85% | 6,742,150 | | Ghana | 22,000,000 | 45% | 9,900,000 | 20% | 1,118,000 | 80% | 8,712,000 | | Ethiopia | 75,067,000 | 32.6% | 24,471,842 | 5% | 387,000 | 95% | 23,135,000 | | Macedonia | 2,000,000 | 32% | 630,000 | 5% | 6,300 | 95% | 623,700 | | Kenya | 33,800,000 | 24% | 8,000,000 | 15% | 560,000 | 85% | 7,440,000 | | Benin | 8,400,000 | 20% | 1,680,000 | 10% | 50,400 | 90% | 1,629,600 | | Russia | 143,000,000 | 19% | 27,650,000 | 15% | 2,212,000 | 85% | 25,438,000 | | Serbia/Montenegro & Kosovo | 10,700,000 | 19% | 2,030,000 | 25% | 304,500 | 75% | 1,725,500 | | Uganda | 26,900,000 | 16% | 4,304,000 | 15% | 301,280 | 85% | 4,002,720 | | Israel & Occupied Territories | 10,800,000 | 46% | 5,000,000 | 10% | 21,760 | 90% | 1,066,240 | | India | 1,103,060,000 | 14% | 154,500,000 | 25% | 30,900,000 | 75% | 123,600,000 | | Malaysia | 23,000,000 | 61% | 14,030,000 | 10% | 280,600 | 90% | 13,749,400 | | Bulgaria | 7,700,000 | 12% | 890,000 | 20% | 89,000 | 80% | 801,000 | | France | 60,700,000 | 10% | 5,980,000 | 15% | 358,800 | 85% | 5,621,200 | | Albania | 3,200,000 | 63% | 2,120,000 | 35% | 540,000 | 65% | 1,580,000 | | Mongolia | 2,600,000 | 6% | 160,000 | 15% | 8,000 | 85% | 152,000 | | Germany | 82,500,000 | 4% | 3,060,000 | 20% | 306,000 | 80% | 2,754,000 | | China | 1,303,700,000 | 3% | 39,111,000 | 15% | 3,128,880 | 85% | 35,982,120 | | United Kingdom | 59,668,000 | 3% | 1,600,000 | 20% | 160,000 | 80% | 1,440,000 | | United States | 296,500,000 | 1% | 2,960,000 | 25% | 450,000 | 75% | 2,550,000 | | South Africa | 46,900,000 | 2% | 938,000 | 20% | 93,800 | 80% | 844,200 | | Canada | 32,200,000 | 2% | 620,000 | 20% | 62,000 | 80% | 558,000 | | Brazil | 184,200,000 | 1% | 921,000 | 40% | 276,300 | 60% | 644,700 | | Argentina | 38,600,000 | 1% | 500,000 | 25% | 50,000 | 75% | 450,000 | | Australia | 20,400,000 | 1% | 280,000 | 20% | 28,000 | 80% | 252,000 | | Italy | 58,700,000 | 0.51% | 50,000 | 20% | 2,500 | 80% | 47,500 | | TOTAL | 4,992,663,560 | 29% | 1,461,813,559 | 15% | 219,667,367 | 85% | 1,238,699,792 | Table sorted by country names: Demographics of Islam - Data by Country Name Sources used The majority of the figures have been taken from, or calculated from, the CIA World 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References - ^ The Gulf 2000 Project SIPA Columbia University
The majority of the figures have been taken from, or calculated from, the CIA World Factbook [1] and the website Adherents.com [2]. When these sources fail to provide any numerical information, other sources have been used as specified below: - Encyclopedia Britannica 1997 edition
- Registered religious communities in Finland (2003)
- The World Almanac & Book of Facts 1998 (K-111 Reference Corp.: Mahwah, NJ), [Source: 1997 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year]; pg. 654.
See also Muslim percentage of population by country Distribution of Islam per country. ...
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