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Approximately 35% of the population in Yemen and half of the Muslims in Lebanon are Shia Muslims. There is also a very large population of Shia Muslims living in the Persian Gulf countries especially in Saudi Arabia. An estimated 5–10% [1] [2] of citizens in Saudi Arabia are Shia Muslims, most of whom are adherents to Twelver Shia Islam.
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 ...
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the table ...
Rank Country (or dependent territory) 2020 projection [1] % of pop. Average relative annual growth (%) [2] Average absolute annual growth [3]Estimated doubling time (years) [4] Official
The Shia Crescent (or Shiite Crescent) is the notionally crescent-shaped region of the Middle East where the majority population is Shia or where there is a strong Shia minority in the population. In recent years the term has been used in Western political discourse to identify areas under Iranian influence or control, as Iran has sought to ...
Shia Muslims form a distinct majority of the population in three countries of the Muslim world: Iran, Iraq, and Azerbaijan. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Shia Muslims constitute 36.3% of the entire population (and 38.6% of the Muslim population) of the Middle East .
There are four required unnamed parameters, and one optional: |1= – a number representing a currency-denominated statistic like GDP (without commas), and denominated in local currency.
Country Projected population (28 January 2025) Pct of total UN Population estimates Annual growth [a] Doubling time (years) [b] 1 July 2023 1 July 2022 Increment