Countries >10% of the Population is Muslim

Posted by dphayteeyl

41 Comments

  1. I tried to make the greens different enough from each other, but I’m sorry if they aren’t

  2. corbynista2029 on

    Top 5 countries with Muslim population:

    Indonesia: 242,700,000

    Pakistan: 233,000,000

    India: 200,000,000

    Bangladesh: 150,800,000

    Nigeria: 95,000,000 – 97,000,000

    So while people tend to associate the Middle East/Arab states with Muslims, none of the Top 5 countries with the largest Muslim populations are in the Middle East.

  3. I’m about to bs mean, now do a map of countries that suffered terror attacks these last 5 years. Lets see if there is causality or just correletion.

  4. Significant-Fee3683 on

    There is no exactitude about France. Depending on the sources it goes from 6% to 10 % but never over

  5. For many countries, this is just the people with “muslim backgrounds”

    in france 14% of the population has muslim backgrounds, but the number of irreligious people with muslim background is also very high, only about 7% of the french population is muslim and 34% christian

    it would not be fair to say france is 85% christian, neither would it be fair to say it is 14% muslim

  6. >90% is bullshit and doesn’t reflect reality. Go to Morocco and you’ll see that mosques are empty all year

  7. Western-Letterhead64 on

    These maps aren’t accurate. Some of the countries shown in dark green actually shouldn’t be. The percentages also don’t account for the ex-Muslims or questioning population, since most people don’t openly identify as irreligious.

    However, according to some rare polls, the percentage of people who identify as confident Muslim in these countries (with the year of the poll) is: 40% in Iran (2020), and 67% in Iraq (2011). I don’t have reliable information about other countries but I’m pretty sure there are a lot of ex-Muslims.

    *Shitty religious leaders is why we leave.*

    Iran: [https://iran-tc.com/en/2020/09/11/iranians-attitudes-toward-religion-a-2020-survey-report/](https://iran-tc.com/en/2020/09/11/iranians-attitudes-toward-religion-a-2020-survey-report/)

    Iraq: [https://www.juancole.com/2014/02/death-iraqis-exists.html](https://www.juancole.com/2014/02/death-iraqis-exists.html)

  8. Putting France in the >10% category is a bit disingenuous. France doesn’t record ethnic and religious data, so there is a pretty large variability in estimations by different sources. Different sources tend to put their estimation between 6% of the population at the lowest and 10% at the highest. Truth is likely somewhere in-between rather than at the top end of estimations. This map essentially says that France’s muslim population can be between 10%<x<20% rather than 6%≤x≤10%.

  9. Some time ago I saw some graphs showing how irreligious Iranians have become since the Islamic revolution. Many Iranians, especially the younger generations, don’t consider themselves Muslims anymore and only 20-25% of the country’s population is in favour of Sharia. If you think about it, there are probably more Muslims in Europe put together than in Iran lol.

  10. Islam in Congo is like 1%… the only source with 10% I could find was German Wikipedia. The numbers are greatly exaggerated for other countries as well

  11. JuneellaVivacious on

    Plot twist: In an alternate universe, the map is made of bacon, and everyone is just arguing over which country gets the crispy bits. Meanwhile, the Fertile Crescent is the bacon strip that always ends up burnt.

  12. The punishment for leaving Islam is death, which is why statistics in many of these countries, especially Iran, are not accurate.

  13. Plenty of Muslim countries that have persecuted Jewish people, fair enough they have their own place

  14. Wow, looking at this map, it feels like trying to find Waldo at a Halal food festival! It’s like, “Where’s the hummus?” But seriously, it’s fascinating how the global Muslim population creates these unexpected cultural overlaps. Next thing you know, we’ll be seeing a mashup of Bollywood and Pakistani dramas with a touch of Nigerian Afrobeats. Who knew geography could be this spicy?

  15. nice but According to the World Factbook, Muslims constitute 99.8% of the population of turkey … why is it shown as less than 90% in your map?