[43] pakistan, bangladesh, iran, and egypt are home to the world’s second, fourth, sixth and seventh largest muslim populations respectively. 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 Islam in asia began in the 7th century during the lifetime of muhammad In 2020, the total number of muslims in asia was about 1.3 billion, making it the largest religion in asia Asia constitutes in absolute terms the world's largest muslim population, [1] and about 62% of the world's muslims live in asia, with indonesia, pakistan, india, bangladesh and malaysia having the largest muslim.
World muslim population by percentage (pew research center, 2014) in 1900, muslims only numbered 200 million followers or 12% of the world population This percentage increased over the last 100 years due to higher birth rate in muslim majority countries and reached about 25 % or 2 billions in 2025 [1][2] pew research have estimated the number will be around 2.2 billion in 2030 and 2.8. Modern day the country with the highest muslim population is brazil It is common to find mosques, communities and festivals celebrating muslim heritage and religion. File:islam percent population in each nation world map muslim data by pew research.svg file file history file usage global file usage metadata
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