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Did you know: Six countries home to 53% of all Muslims - World - DAWN.COM
Map of countries that are home to more than 50% of the Muslim population
A recent analysis of PEW survey data provides a visual look at how the world’s major religions are heavily concentrated in a few geographical areas, "with half or more of their followers living in one or a handful of countries."
Interesting findings:
Map of countries that are home to more than 50% of the Muslim population
A recent analysis of PEW survey data provides a visual look at how the world’s major religions are heavily concentrated in a few geographical areas, "with half or more of their followers living in one or a handful of countries."
Interesting findings:
- Egypt is the only Middle Eastern-North African country that ranks among the six largest Muslim populations (Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Egypt).
- The six countries with large Muslim populations comprise 30% of the world’s population.
- No major religion is more concentrated in one country than Hinduism, which has remained close to its geographic origins.
- India and China have the largest shares (a combined 63%) of the 58 million people in the “other religions” category
- Christians and Muslims, the world’s two largest religious groups, have spread well beyond their origins in the Middle East.
- Christians are the group whose distribution is most closely proportionate to the global population pattern.
- While 81% of all Jews live in the United States and Israel
