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The 2020 United States Religion Census estimates that there are about 4,453,908 Muslim Americans of all ages living in the United States in 2020, making up 1.34% of the total U.S. population. [1] In 2017, twenty states, mostly in the South and Midwest, reported Islam to be the largest non-Christian religion.
Shia Muslims comprise 15-20% of Muslims in the Americas; [13] which is nearly 786,000 [14] to 2.500.000 persons in the U.S. [15] Shia Muslims are situated on United States. The American Shia Muslim community are from different parts of the world such as South Asia, Europe, Middle East, and East Africa. [16] [17]
Russia will have the largest total population of Muslims in Europe, however. [317] Most of these changes are expected to come from immigration. [317] In the Americas, Canada’s Muslim population is expected to increase to 6.6% and United States' to 2% by 2030. [317] These increases, much like Europe, are expected to be driven mainly by ...
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
From 1965 to 2005, around 135,000 Lebanese came to the United States. The overwhelming majority, roughly 120,000, came after the commencement of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. [24] Furthering the emigration from Lebanon was Israel's 1982 invasion. [22] Egyptians and Iraqis also immigrated to the United States in large numbers during this period.
But the population of Puerto Rico continued to fall, albeit at a slower rate than in recent years, falling by just 0.2 percent to 3,203,295, compared with drops of 1.3 percent and 0.5 percent in ...
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.1%), behind Christianity and Judaism. [16] The Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies in its 2017 US Religion census estimated that 1.1% (or 3,450,000) of the population of the United States are Muslim. [17]
Sep. 9—As news reports fixated on images of crumbling towers and Osama bin Laden 20 years ago, Muslims living in New Hampshire and across the country became the focus — and in some cases, the ...