How many Muslims are there in the world?
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Adherents of Islam constitute the world’s second largest religious group. According to an estimation in 2022, Islam has 1.97 billion adherents, making up about 25% of the world population.
Muslims represent the second-largest religious group in the world, after Christians. As of 2015, adherents of Islam total about 1.62 billion people, making up about 23% of the global population. In 2002,
Muslims are projected to number 1.97 billion worldwide with a fluctuating 2% annual growth rate. Muslims have grown as a percentage of the world population due to an increase in fertility rates, high birth rates, and conversions to Islam in countries where they are not a majority or significant minority, such as India, Indonesia, and Nigeria.
According to the Pew Research Center, within five years, the number of Muslims will overtake the number of Christians. It also found that Christianity’s growth rate is higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than it is worldwide, and Islam is spreading fastest in sub-Saharan Africa.
In modern times Islam has spread rapidly through population growth – over half of all Muslims are under 25 years old. Islam has also spread rapidly through conversion – about 10% of all Muslims are converts. Conversion to Islam has been facilitated by the fact that Islamic law makes no distinction between “innate” and “conventional” Islam; in other words, children born to Muslim parents are deemed Muslims.
Most Muslims belong to one of two denominations, the Sunni or the Shia. About 13% of Muslims live in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, 25% in Pakistan, 15% in India, 5-6% in Bangladesh, 2% in China, and 2% in Russia. About 1.5% of the world’s Muslim population is from the Americas, 8.7% from Europe, 37% from Asia, and 47.3% from Africa.
A large-scale comparative survey conducted in 2007 by the Pew Research Center and “The New York Times” found that “the median age of Muslims was 25 years, compared with 30 years among non-Muslims; more men 55% than women 45% were counted as Muslims. The median age of Muslims in Africa was 28 years compared with 26 for non-Muslims; the median ages were 20 years for Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa region and 29 years for non-Muslims. Only about a quarter of Muslims were younger than 18, compared with 38% of non-Muslims.”
A 2010 Gallup poll found: “Muslims generally have higher incomes and more education than their counterparts in other countries. Muslim Americans are more religious than other U.S. religious groups and have a daily attendance rate at religious services that is nearly three-and-a-half times higher than average America.”
The CIA World Factbook estimates that as of 2010, 83.7% of all Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region, 10.2% in the Middle East and North Africa, 3.4% in sub-Saharan Africa, 2.6% in Europe, excluding Turkey, and 1.7% in North America.
In Conclusion.
There has been much debate surrounding the number of Muslims in the world. While estimates are variable, the current estimate is at about 1.65 billion (2011). This figure indicates a growth rate of 2% per year, which is higher than the Christian population growth rate of 1.2%.
A high Muslim birth rate and conversion drive growth in Islam and projected imminence of Muslim majority status. By contrast, high conversion rates to Christianity and a stagnant birth rate have been linked with the decline of Christianity worldwide.
Some observers anticipate that Muslim population growth will continue fast, while others expect it to level off by the end of the 21st century.