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The household income levels of American Muslims are about as evenly distributed as the general American population. [ 134 ] When it comes to education, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding reported in 2017 that across the board, American Muslims, Protestants, and Catholics have similar education levels.
Islam is a minority religion in all of the countries and territories of the Americas, around 1% of North America population are Muslims, and 0.1% of Latin America and Caribbean population are Muslims. [1] Suriname has the highest percentage of Muslims in its population for the region, with 13.9% or 75,053 individuals, according to its 2012 ...
Paterson, New Jersey has been nicknamed Little Ramallah and contains a neighborhood with the same name, with an Arab American population estimated as high as 20,000 in 2015. [73] Neighboring Clifton, New Jersey, is following in Paterson's footsteps, with rapidly growing Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian American populations. [83]
By 2050, the same study also predicted that the US Muslim population would grow to a total of 8.1 million, or 2.1% of the total population. Despite these figures, the experience of Muslims today ...
Today, Arabs make up roughly 1.2 percent of the overall US population. [29] Between 1990 and 2000 the Arab American population increased by an estimated 30 percent. [29] Lebanese are the largest group of Arab Americans in every state except for New Jersey, where Egyptians make up the largest nationality. [28]
The city boasts the nation’s largest per capita Muslim population and North America’s biggest mosque. Last year Dearborn became the first Arab-American-majority city in the country, with more ...
African-American Muslims constitute 20% of the total U.S. Muslim population. [18] [19] Despite this, 2% of Black Americans are Muslim (most adhere to various sects of Christianity, particularly Protestantism). [20] The majority are Sunni Muslims; a substantial proportion of these identify under the community of W. Deen Mohammed.
Muslim-Americans voted overwhelmingly for Biden. ... And while Muslims are a tiny minority of the overall U.S. population — about half the number of American Jews — they happen to make up a ...