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The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a majority Muslim country with 96% of the population following Sunni Islam while a small minority follow Shiite branches. There are also about 20,000 to 32,000 Druze living mostly in the north of Jordan, even though most Druze no longer consider themselves Muslim. [1] [2] Many Jordanian Muslims practice Sufism.
Sunni Islam is the dominant religion in Jordan.Muslims make up about 97.2% of the country's population. [1] [2] A few of them are Shiites.Many Shia in Jordan are refugees from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Jordan is a home to 2,175,491 registered Palestinian refugees. [11] Out of those 2,175,491 refugees, 634,182 have not been given Jordanian citizenship. [ 12 ] Jordan also hosts around 1.4 million Syrian refugees who fled to the country due to the Syrian Civil War since 2011.
Muslims who convert to other religions often face social ostracism, threats, and abuse from their families and Muslim religious leaders. According to the survey in 2010 by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 86% of Jordanians polled supported the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion .
Sunni Muslims constitute vast majority of the Arab world's residents. However, Shi'a make up the slight majority in areas of Iraq, [9] and Bahrain. [10] Christianity is the second largest religion, with over 20 million Christians in “total” living in countries such as Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, Kuwait and Jordan.
South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. [22] [23] [24] Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million ...
A few countries with significant Muslim populations, such as Russia and Thailand, sit as Observer States. ... Jordan Capital: Amman: 1969 10,458,701 [2] 97.2 [11]
Druze in Jordan refers to adherents of the Druze faith, an ethnoreligious [2] esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as monotheists (Muwaḥḥidūn). [3] Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion , and Druze do not identify as Muslims .