A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.57 billion
Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world
population of 6.8 billion.
While Muslims are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60% of the global Muslim
population is in Asia and about 20% is in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the Middle
East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, more
than half of the 20 countries and territories1 in that region have populations that are approximately
95% Muslim or greater.
by Mapping the
Global Muslim Population
A Report on the Size and Distribution
of the World’s Muslim Population
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