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According to a Labour Force Survey estimate, the total number of Muslims in Great Britain in 2008 was 2,422,000, around 4 per cent of the total population. [160] Between 2004 and 2008, the Muslim population grew by more than 500,000. [160] In 2010, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life estimated 2,869,000 Muslims in Great Britain. [161]
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.
Today Islam is the second largest religion in England. About 38% of English Muslims live in London , where they make up 12.4% of the population. There are also large numbers of Muslims in Birmingham , Manchester , Bradford , Luton , Slough , Leicester and the mill towns of Northern England such as Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Oldham.
In 2001, the White British population was registered to be 88.52% of the total population, but by 2011, this proportion of the population had dropped to 81.88%, with other ethnic groups either rising by 50% of their respective total population in 2001 or doubling entirely. Such rapid immigration growth boosted population growth in the United ...
2 Eastern Europe. 3 Northern Europe. ... Total: 163,169,237 118,062,752 72.36 ... * Only includes the population of religious affiliation for 15 years old or above.
Fears raised over the future of the Church of England as just one in seven people identify as Anglican, according to new research
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2016 found that Muslims make up 4.9% of all of Europe's population. [79] According to a same study conversion does not add significantly to the growth of the Muslim population in Europe, with roughly 160,000 more people leaving Islam than converting into Islam between 2010 and 2016. [79]
In the 2021 census for England and Wales, the main places of birth were the United Kingdom at 1,974,479 people (51.0% of the total Muslim population), South Asia at 993,415 (25.7%), Africa at 366,133 (9.5%), other parts of Europe at 262,685 (6.8%) and the Middle East at 231,261 (6.0%). Among individual countries outside of the UK, the countries ...