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The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
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 ...
With about 1.8 billion followers (2015), almost a quarter of earth's population, [111] Islam is the second-largest and the fastest-growing religion in the world, [112] primarily due to the young age and high fertility rate of Muslims, [113] with Muslims having a rate of (3.1) compared to the world average of (2.5).
Muslim population growth is the worldwide growth of adherents of the religion of Islam through religious conversion and reproduction in Muslim communities. Between 2015 and 2060, Muslim population is projected to increase by 70%, from 1.76 billion to 3 billion. [1] This compares with the 32% growth of world population during the same period. [2]
The study also reveals that, due to young age & relatively high fertility rate among Muslims by 2050 there will be near parity between Muslims (2.8 billion, or 30% of the population) and Christians (2.9 billion, or 31%), possibly for the first time in history. [332]
[309] [310] Islam in Europe is the second-largest religion after Christianity in many countries, with growth rates due primarily to immigration and higher birth rates of Muslims in 2005, [311] accounting for 4.9% of all of Europe's population in 2016.
Sunnī Islam, also known as Ahl as-Sunnah waʾl Jamāʾah or simply Ahl as-Sunnah, is by far the largest denomination of Islam, comprising around 85% of the Muslim population in the world. The term Sunnī comes from the word sunnah , which means the teachings, actions, and examples of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions ( ṣaḥāba ).
The population of the Arab world as estimated in 2023 was about 473 million inhabitants, [4] but no exact figures of the annual population growth, fertility rate, or mortality rate are known to exist. Over 59 percent of the Arab population is concentrated in urban areas [5] and the number is expected to reach 68 percent by 2050. [6]