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Libya has a small population residing in a large land area. Population density is about 50 persons per km 2 (130/sq. mi.) in the two northern regions of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, but falls to less than one person per km 2 (2.7/sq. mi.) elsewhere. Ninety percent of the people live in less than 10% of the area, primarily along the coast.
About 97% of the population in Libya are Muslims, most of whom belong to the Sunni branch. [246] [277] Small numbers of Ibadi Muslims live in the country. [278] [279] Before the 1930s, the Senussi Sunni Sufi movement was the primary Islamic movement in Libya. This was a religious revival adapted to desert life.
Islam is the dominant religion in Libya, with 97% of Libyans following Sunni Islam. [2] Article 5 of the Libyan Constitution declared that Islam was the official religion of the state. [ 2 ]
During World War II, Libya's Jewish population was subjected to anti-Semitic laws by the Fascist Italian regime and deportations by German troops. After the war, anti-Jewish violence caused many Jews to leave the country usually for Palestine. A savage pogrom in Tripoli on 5 November 1945, killed more than 140 Jews and wounded hundreds more.
About 15% of Muslims reside in Sub-Saharan Africa, [28] [page needed] [13] [29] and sizeable Muslim communities are also found in the Americas, Russia, China and Europe. [ 11 ] Western Europe hosts many Muslim immigrant communities where Islam is the second-largest religion after Christianity , where it represents 6% of the total population or ...
Gaddafi is ousted in August and killed in October. A rebel council stages elections for an interim General National Congress which creates a transitional government but true power lies with an ...
Countries and territories with a considerable proportion of Muslims from Islam by country as of 2010, excluding foreign workers in brackets: Data is based on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life [26] Muslim Percentage by country, 2020 Maldives 100% [27] Mauritania 99.9% [28] Gaza Strip 99.9% [citation needed] Morocco 99.9% [29]
Approximately 325 million Muslims live in the MENA region, which constitutes 20% of the global Muslim population. [16] However, it also has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. By 2010 it was estimated that 93% of the populations in the Middle East and North Africa were Muslim, [ 3 ] although this information can vary from the ...