List of Muslim majority countries

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List of Muslim majority countries

This is a list of countries in which Islam

Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
is the majority religion of the people. In a geopolitical sense these countries are often considered to form the Muslim world

Muslim world

.The term Muslim world has several meanings. In a Culture sense it refers to the worldwide community of Muslims, adherents of Islam. This community Islam by country, roughly one-fifth of the world population....
. The list only contains countries which are predominantly Muslim, meaning the Muslim population constitutes at least 50% of the total population. The table is presorted by the largest population by country. It can be sorted on other criteria by clicking the tab of the appropriate column at the top of the table.

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This is a list of countries in which Islam

Islam

Muslim world

Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
.

The 'Muslim %' column, is the percentage

Percentage

In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 . It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". For example, 45% is equal to 45 / 100, or 0.45....
of Muslims of a country out of the total population. The higher the percentage is of a country, then the highest Muslim majority. Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
has the highest Muslim percentage of the country at 100%, note that this figure only applies to citizens, and foreign workers are excluded from this count (over 8 million foreign workers), no official statistics available. The 'Main sect' shows whether the main denomination

Denomination

Denomination may refer to:*Religious denomination, such as a:**Christian denomination**Jewish denomination**Islamic denomination**Hindu denominations...
of Muslims is Sunni or Shi'a, or other sects. 'Religion and state' refers to the role of religion in politics based on the constitutions. Islamic state

Islamic State

The term Islamic state refers to states that have adopted Islam, specifically the Sharia, as the ideological foundation for their political institution ....
: Sharia law or the Quran

Qur'an

The Qur?an is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur?an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and consider the original Arabic text to be the final revelation of God....
as a form of legislation

Legislation

Legislation is law which has been promulgation by a legislature or other governing body. The term may refer to a single law, or the collective body of enacted law, while "statute" is also used to refer to a single law....
e.g Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

State religion

A state religion is a religion body or creed officially endorsed by the state. Practically, a state without a state religion is called a secular state....
: Islam as the official religion of a country, where Sharia

Sharia

Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law. The term means "way" or "path to the water source"; it is the legal framework within which the public and private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Fiqh and for Muslims living outside the domain....
courts may be used e.g. Malaysia

Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
, Secular

Secular state

A secular state is a state or country that is officially neutral in matters of religion, neither supporting nor opposing any particular religious beliefs or practices....
: Government institutions separated from role of religion, e.g. Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, and None: No decleration of a secular state or adoption of state religion and an Islamic state, e.g. Indonesia

Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
.

The 'type of government', refers to the set of political institutions by which a government

Government

Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
of a state

State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
is organized in order to exert its powers over a community

Community politics

Community politics is a movement in United Kingdom politics to re-engage people with political action on a local level.Most developed amongst the Liberal Democrats but adopted to some extent by the British Green party, other parties, and Independents....
. The Muslim countries are mainly monarchies and presidential republics. The military power or strength of the countries is shown by the numbers of active troops, the powerful of these include Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
and Turkey

Turkey

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

This article includes three lists of countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product at purchasing power parity per capita, the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for the same year....
is the data for the economy of the Muslim countries. The data can be used to compare rich or poor countries or to compare the economies. The GDP per capita (PPP) have been obtained from the IMF's World Economic Outlook Database for 2007. All information and data is estimates.

Rank	Country	Population List of countries by population This is a list of Country ordered according to population. The list includes list of sovereign states and inhabited dependent territories.Areas that form integral parts of sovereign states, such as the countries of the United Kingdom, are counted as part of the sovereign states concerned....	Muslim % Islam by country Islam is the world's Major religious groups after Christianity with over 1.0-1.8 billion adherents, comprising 20-25% of the world population while most estimates figures that there are 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide....	Main sect	Religion and state Religion and politics Religion is a set of beliefs and practices that are determined by one's view of reality and the supernatural. Politics is the process by which group decision making....	Type of government Form of government A form of government is a term that refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized in order to exert its powers over a body politic....	Military power (active troops) List of countries by number of active troops This is a list of countries sorted by the total number of active troops where the military manpower of a country is measured by the total number of active troops within the command of that country....	GDP (PPP) per capita List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita This article includes three lists of countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product at purchasing power parity per capita, the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for the same year.... (US$ Geary-Khamis dollar The Geary-Khamis dollar, also known as the international dollar, is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power that the U.S.... )
1		228,582,000	86.1%	Sunni	None	Presidential democracy Presidential system A presidential system is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides separately from the legislature, to which it is not wikt:accountable and which cannot, in normal circumstances, wikt:dismiss it....	316,000	3,725
2		172,800,000	97%	Sunni	Islamic state	Semi-presidential republic Semi-presidential system The semi-presidential system is a system of government in which a Prime Minister and a president are both active participants in the day-to-day administration of the state....	528,000	2,592
3		153,547,000	88.7%	Sunni	State religion	Parliamentary democracy	150,000	1,300
4		146,255,000	50%	Sunni	None	Presidential Federal Republic Federal republic A federal republic is a federation of states with a republic form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain all sovereignty that they do not yield to the federation....	78,500	2,035
5		75,530,000	90%	Sunni	State religion	Semi-presidential republic Semi-presidential system The semi-presidential system is a system of government in which a Prime Minister and a president are both active participants in the day-to-day administration of the state....	450,000	5,491
6		71,517,100	99.8%	Sunni	Secular	Parliamentary democracy	514,850	12,888
7		70,495,782	98%	Shi'a	Islamic state	Presidential republic Presidential system A presidential system is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides separately from the legislature, to which it is not wikt:accountable and which cannot, in normal circumstances, wikt:dismiss it....	545,000	10,624
8		39,379,358	70%	Sunni	None	Authoritarian republic Authoritarianism Authoritarianism describes a form of government characterized by an emphasis on the authority of the state in a republic or union. It is a political system controlled by nonelected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom....	104,500	2,172
9		33,769,669	99%	Sunni	State religion	Presidential republic Presidential system A presidential system is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides separately from the legislature, to which it is not wikt:accountable and which cannot, in normal circumstances, wikt:dismiss it....	127,500	6,538
10		32,738,376	99%	Sunni	Islamic state	Presidential republic Presidential system A presidential system is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides separately from the legislature, to which it is not wikt:accountable and which cannot, in normal circumstances, wikt:dismiss it....	70,000	724
11		33,723,418	99%	Sunni	State religion	Constitutional monarchy Constitutional monarchy A constitutional monarchy is a form of constitutional government, where in either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, wherein the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she is not legally bound by the constitution....	196,300	4,076
12		28,221,181	97%	Shi'a	State religion	Parliamentary democracy Parliamentary republic A parliamentary republic or parliamentary constitutional republic is a form of a republic which operates under a parliamentary system of government ....	254,418	3,600
13		27,730,000	60.4%	Sunni	State religion	Parliamentary democracy and EM Elective monarchy An elective monarchy is a monarchy ruled by someone, generally from a royal house, who is elected by a group.Some examples from history ...	110,000	13,315
14		27,601,038	100%	Sunni	Islamic state	Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy is a monarchy form of government where the king or queen has absolute power over all aspects of his/her subjects' lives. Although some religious authorities may be able to discourage the monarch from some acts and the sovereign is expected to act according to custom, in an absolute monarchy there is no constitution or legal...	199,500	23,243
15		27,372,000	88%	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	53,000	2,344
16		23,013,376	99%	Sunni/Shi'a	Islamic state	Presidential republic	65,000	2,335
17		19,405,000	90%	Sunni	None	Authoritarian republic Authoritarianism Authoritarianism describes a form of government characterized by an emphasis on the authority of the state in a republic or union. It is a political system controlled by nonelected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom....	296,000	4,448
18		15,217,711	57%	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	65,800	11,086
19		13,272,679	90%	Sunni	Secular	Parliamentary democracy	5,300	666
20		13,228,000	50%	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic	6,000	1,253
21		11,995,402	90%	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic	7,350	1,031
22		11,658,000	94%	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic Semi-presidential system The semi-presidential system is a system of government in which a Prime Minister and a president are both active participants in the day-to-day administration of the state....	9,400	1,685
23		10,383,577	98%	Sunni	State religion	Presidential republic	35,000	7,473
24		10,211,437	85%	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	9,700	1,074
25		9,558,666	99.9%	Sunni	State religion	Failed state Failed state The term failed state is often used by political commentators and journalists to describe a state perceived as having failed at some of the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereignty government....	10,000	600
26		8,676,000	93.4%	Shi'a	Secular	Presidential republic	95,000	7,656
27		7,215,700	97%	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	6,000	1,841
28		6,294,774	60%	Sunni	None	Presidential republic	13,000	692
29		6,173,579	97%	Sunni	State religion	Jamahiriya Jamahiriya Jamahiriya is an Arabic language term generally translated as "state of the masses." The term, a neologism coined by Muammar al-Gaddafi, is intended to be a generic term describing a type of state, like a "republic ruled by the masses."... Revolution	76,000	12,277
30		5,568,565	95%	Sunni	Secular	Constitutional monarchy Constitutional monarchy A constitutional monarchy is a form of constitutional government, where in either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, wherein the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she is not legally bound by the constitution....	100,700	4,886
31		5,432,746	76%	Sunni	State religion	Federal constitutional monarchy	50,500	37,293
32		5,356,869	75%	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic	12,500	-
33		5,110,023	89%	Sunni	Secular	Parliamentary republic Parliamentary republic A parliamentary republic or parliamentary constitutional republic is a form of a republic which operates under a parliamentary system of government ....	26,000	5,154
34		5,041,690	54%	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	30,350	1,675
35		5,028,475	60%	Sunni	None	Presidential republic	202,000	773
36		4,196,453	60%	Shi'a/Sunni	None	Parliamentary democracy	72,100	11,270
37		3,600,523	70%	Sunni	None	Parliamentary republic Parliamentary republic A parliamentary republic or parliamentary constitutional republic is a form of a republic which operates under a parliamentary system of government ....	20,000	-
38		3,399,637	85%	Sunni	State religion	Constitutional monarchy Constitutional monarchy A constitutional monarchy is a form of constitutional government, where in either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, wherein the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she is not legally bound by the constitution....	15,500	39,305
39		3,124,000	99.99%	Sunni	Islamic state	Military junta Military junta A military junta is a government ruled by a committee of military leaders. The term derives from the Spanish junta meaning committee, specifically a board of directors....	15,750	2,008
40		2,577,000	93%	Ibadi Ibadi The Ibadi movement or Ibadiyya is a form of Islam distinct from the Shi'a and Sunni denominations. It is the dominant form of Islam in Oman....	State religion	Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy is a monarchy form of government where the king or queen has absolute power over all aspects of his/her subjects' lives. Although some religious authorities may be able to discourage the monarch from some acts and the sovereign is expected to act according to custom, in an absolute monarchy there is no constitution or legal...	41,700	23,967
41		2,100,000	90%	Sunni	Secular	Parliamentary republic	-	1,800
42		1,700,000	90%	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	800	1,326
43		1,046,814	81%	Shi'a	State religion	Constitutional monarchy Constitutional monarchy A constitutional monarchy is a form of constitutional government, where in either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, wherein the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she is not legally bound by the constitution....	11,200	32,604
44		798,000	98%	Sunni	State religion	Federal republic Federal republic A federal republic is a federation of states with a republic form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain all sovereignty that they do not yield to the federation....	-	1,125
45		744,029	76%	Sunni	State religion	Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy is a monarchy form of government where the king or queen has absolute power over all aspects of his/her subjects' lives. Although some religious authorities may be able to discourage the monarch from some acts and the sovereign is expected to act according to custom, in an absolute monarchy there is no constitution or legal...	12,400	80,870
46		496,374	94%	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic	9,850	2,271
47		381,371	67%	Sunni	State religion	Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy Absolute monarchy is a monarchy form of government where the king or queen has absolute power over all aspects of his/her subjects' lives. Although some religious authorities may be able to discourage the monarch from some acts and the sovereign is expected to act according to custom, in an absolute monarchy there is no constitution or legal...	7,000	51,005
48		350,000	99.8%	Sunni	State religion	Presidential republic Presidential system A presidential system is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides separately from the legislature, to which it is not wikt:accountable and which cannot, in normal circumstances, wikt:dismiss it....	1,000	4,604

Footnotes

The statistic of 100% only applies to citizens of Saudi Arabia, and does not include the total population. There are currently no data or information regarding on the religious beliefs of the people, and all Saudi citizens are regarded as Sunni Muslims, however there are over 8 million foreign workers in the country (non-nationals). Other religious groups of foreigners are from other Muslim sects, Christians (including Eastern Orthodox, Protestants, and over one million Roman Catholics), Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and others. Comprehensive statistics for the religious denominations of foreigners are not available.

List of Muslim majority countries

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