Muslims world wide
Seventy-nine countries will have a
million or more Muslim inhabitants in
2030, up from 72 countries today.
· A majority of the world's Muslims
(about 60 percent) will continue to live
in the Asia-Pacific region, while about 20 percent will live in the Middle East
and North Africa, as is the case today.
· Pakistan is expected to surpass
Indonesia as the country with the
single largest Muslim population.
· The portion of the world's Muslims living in sub-Saharan Africa is
projected to rise; for example, in 20
years more Muslims are likely to live in
Nigeria than in Egypt. · Muslims will remain relatively small
minorities in Europe and the Americas,
but they are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population
in these regions.
· Sunni Muslims will continue to make up an overwhelming majority of
Muslims in 2030 (87 to 90 percent).
The portion of the world's Muslims
who are Shia may decline slightly,
largely because of relatively low
fertility in Iran, where more than a third of the world's Shia Muslims live.
· As of 2010, about three-quarters of the world's Muslims (74.1 percent) live in the 49 countries in which Muslims
make up a majority of the population.
More than a fifth of all Muslims (23.3 percent) live in non-Muslim-majority
countries in the developing world.
About 3 percent of the world's
Muslims live in more-developed
regions, such as Europe, North
America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.