The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life just released the results of a global study of Muslims. The interactive map lets you hover over a country and see what percent of its population is Muslim, and what percent of all Muslims reside there. It will be a surprise to many people to see what a small proportion of Muslims live in Arab countries.
This map weights each country by population size (larger version here):
By region:
Full report here.
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chuk — October 8, 2009
As far as geo-political concerns go, there is apparently a difference between poor Muslims, and rich Muslims--i.e. Does the West think it is really threatened by Muslims, or affluent Muslims? This might have something to do with the tendency to overestimate the proportion of Muslims in the Arab world.
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ZoeChastain — October 9, 2009
The Muslim population is now close to two million, over 3 per cent, and rising fast because Muslim families have more children than most of the rest of us, many of them named Mohammed or Muhammed.
Muslim population has doubled in 30 years, and will double again on present projections by 2015. By 2060, Britain is expected to be the most populous nation in the EU, with 77 million people - this, though today Germany's population is 20 million larger than ours.
alana — October 19, 2009
I think the surprise comes from the fact that even though small proportion of Muslims live in Arab countries, compared to everywhere else, the “Middle East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries” at 95% Muslim or greater. That makes a big difference.
What I find more surprising is how people are surprised a blog by two Americans is American centric.
imman — November 2, 2009
I see alot of people talk about muslims as terrorists. hoenstly I lived and stayed almost in every culture and sometime I find it strange that westerns dont notice that their goverments are the ones who are starting the troubles and muslims are only fighting back. we all know for sure that one of the major western countries interstests, if not the most important, is to keep muslims down illitrate and behind. westerns support dictators to rule these countries in "give and take" business; they will gurantee him protection, and freedom to do anything and steel his own people to become the wealthiest in the whole world and he guarntees them obedience.
take Iraq as an example, the US came for the reason of weapon of mass destruction....then 1 million Iraqis die becuase of this......then ooops.... no weapon of mass destruction....wrong information...sorry everybody...
Now lets assume that every 1 dead person is loved by 10 indivisuals from friends, relatives and parents so just very rough calculation indicates that 10 million iraqis suffer from the loss of a loved one becuase of miss America's mistake.....Now could you tell me how many Iraqis hate the US?
Jemil — March 20, 2010
This will be more than anyhumans analysation.Because now,Am talking of all the global,Is not only the moslem that put on hate to the US.Even those that are in the country(both the moslems and the christians are not supporting U S on what they are doing).