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Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%), behind Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.07%). [ 1] The 2020 United States census estimated that 1.34% (or 4,453,908) of the population of the United States are Muslim. [ 2] In 2017, twenty states, mostly in the South and Midwest, reported Islam to be the largest non-Christian ...
Islam is a minority religion in all of the countries and territories of the Americas, around 1% of North America population are Muslims, and 0.1% of Latin America and Caribbean population are Muslims. [1] Suriname has the highest percentage of Muslims in its population for the region, with 13.9% or 75,053 individuals, according to its 2012 ...
The population of Hispanic Muslims has increased 30 percent to some 200,000 since 1999, estimates Ali Khan, national director of the American Muslim Council in Chicago. [20] Since the United States Census Bureau does not provide statistics on religion, statistics are scarce and wide-ranging. [19]
Muslim In America. The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. The following animated videos depict the experiences of nine Muslim Americans from across the country who differ in heritage, age, gender and occupation. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday ...
South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. [21] [22] [23] Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million ...
Sorting by American states, according to the 2000 U.S. census, 48% of the Arab American population, 576,000, reside in California, Michigan, New York, Florida, and New Jersey, respectively; these 5 states collectively have 31% of the net U.S. population.
Europe. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Europe. [ 24][ 25] According to the Pew Research Center, the Muslim population in Europe (excluding Turkey) was about 30 million in 1990, and 44 million in 2010; the Muslim share of the population increased from 4.1% in 1990 to 6% in 2010. [ 3]
African-American Muslims constitute 20% of the total U.S. Muslim population. [16] [17] Despite this, 3% of Black Americans are Muslim (most adhere to various sects of Christianity, particularly Protestantism). [18] The majority are Sunni Muslims; a substantial proportion of these identify under the community of W. Deen Mohammed.