List of Muslim majority countries with sect/state/government

List of Muslim majority countries

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Muslim population by country.

This is a list of countries in which Islam is the majority religion of the people. In a geopolitical sense these countries are often considered to form the Muslim world. The list only contains countries where at least 50% of the population is Muslim. 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. The percentage shows the proportional amount of Muslims out of the total population of each country. In total, there are currently 48 Muslim majority countries.

The Muslim % column is the percentage of Muslims of a country out of the total population. The higher the percentage is of a country, then the higher the Muslim majority. Saudi Arabia has the highest Muslim percentage of the country at 100%, note that this figure only applies to citizens, and the country’s 8 million foreign workers are excluded from this count; there are no official statistics available.^†

The column Main sect shows whether the predominant denomination of Muslims is Sunni, Shi’a, or other sects. Religion and state is the role of religion in politics based on the constitutions: Islamic state indicates use of Sharia law or the Quran as a form of legislation (e.g., Saudi Arabia); state religion indicates that Islam as the official religion of a country, where Sharia courts may be used (e.g., Malaysia); secular indicates that government institutions are formally separated from religion (e.g., Turkey); and none indicates that the state has neither adopted a state religion, declared an Islamic state, nor declared a secular state (e.g., Indonesia).

The column type of government is the set of political institution by which a government of a state is organized in order to exert its powers over a community.^[1] 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, Pakistan and Turkey. The GDP (PPP) per capita 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 are estimates.^[2]

Rank	Country	Population	Muslim %	Main sect	Religion and (state= sharia)	Type of government	Military power (active troops)	GDP (PPP) per capita (US$)
		123	123				123	123
1	Indonesia	228,582,000	86.1%[3]	Sunni	None	Presidential republic	316,000[4]	3,725
2	Pakistan	172,800,000[5]	97%[6]	Sunni/Shi’a	Islamic state[7]	Parliamentary democracy	528,000[8]	2,592
3	Bangladesh	162,221,000[9]	89%[10]	Sunni	Secular [11]	Parliamentary democracy	120,000[12]	1,378
4	Nigeria	154,279,000[13]	50%[14]	Sunni	None	Presidential Federal Republic	78,500[15]	2,035
5	Egypt	77,100,000[16]	90%[17]	Sunni	State religion[18]	Semi-presidential republic	450,000[19]	5,491
6	Turkey	71,517,100[20]	99.8%[21]	Sunni	Secular[22]	Parliamentary democracy	514,850[23]	12,888
7	Iran	70,495,782[24]	98%[25]	Shi’a	Islamic state[26]	Presidential republic and Theocracy	545,000[27]	10,624
8	Sudan	39,379,358	70%[28]	Sunni	None	Authoritarian republic	104,500[29]	2,172
9	Algeria	33,769,669[30]	99%[31]	Sunni	State religion[32]	Presidential republic	127,500[33]	6,538
10	Afghanistan	32,738,376[34]	99%[35]	Sunni	Islamic state[36]	Presidential republic	70,000[37]	724
11	Morocco	33,723,418	99%[38]	Sunni	State religion[39]	Constitutional monarchy	196,300[40]	4,076
12	Iraq	31,234,000[41]	97%[42]	Shi’a/Sunni	State religion	Parliamentary democracy	254,418[43]	3,600
13	Malaysia	27,730,000[44]	60.4%[45]	Sunni	State religion[46]	Parliamentary democracy and EM	110,000[47]	13,315
14	Saudi Arabia	27,601,038[48]	100%[6][49]	Sunni Wahhabi	Islamic state[50]	Absolute monarchy	199,500[51]	23,243
15	Uzbekistan	27,372,000	88%[52]	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	53,000[53]	2,344
16	Yemen	23,013,376	99%[54]	Sunni/Shi’a	Islamic state[55]	Presidential republic	65,000[56]	2,335
17	Syria	19,405,000	90%[57]	Sunni	None[58]	Authoritarian republic	296,000[59]	4,448
18	Kazakhstan	15,217,711[60]	57%[61]	Sunni	Secular[62]	Presidential republic	65,800[63]	11,086
19	Niger	13,272,679	90%[64]	Sunni	Secular[65]	Parliamentary democracy	5,300[66]	666
20	Burkina Faso	13,228,000	50%[67]	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic	6,000[68]	1,253
21	Mali	11,995,402	90%[69]	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic	7,350[70]	1,031
22	Senegal	11,658,000	94%[71]	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic	9,400[72]	1,685
23	Tunisia	10,383,577	98%[73]	Sunni	State religion[74]	Presidential republic	35,000[75]	7,473
24	Guinea	10,211,437	85%[76]	Sunni	Secular	Military junta	9,700[77]	1,074
25	Somalia	9,558,666	99.9%[78]	Sunni	State religion	Coalition government	10,000	600
26	Azerbaijan	8,676,000[79]	93.4%[80]	Shi’a	Secular[81]	Presidential republic	95,000	7,656
27	Tajikistan	7,215,700	97%[82]	Sunni	Secular[83]	Presidential republic	6,000[84]	1,841
28	Sierra Leone	6,294,774[85]	60%[86]	Sunni	None	Presidential republic	13,000[87]	692
29	Libya	6,173,579[88]	97%[89]	Sunni	State religion[90]	Jamahiriya Revolution	76,000[91]	12,277
30	Jordan	5,568,565	95%[92]	Sunni	state religion	Constitutional monarchy	100,700[93]	4,886
31	United Arab Emirates	5,432,746[94]	76%[95]	Sunni	State religion[96]	Federal constitutional monarchy	50,500[97]	37,293
32	Kyrgyzstan	5,356,869	75%[98]	Sunni	Secular[99]	Semi-presidential republic	12,500[100]	–
33	Turkmenistan	5,110,023	89%[101]	Sunni	Secular[102]	Parliamentary republic	26,000[103]	5,154
34	Chad	5,041,690	54%[104]	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	30,350[105]	1,675
35	Lebanon	4,196,453	60%[106]	Shi’a/Sunni	None	Parliamentary democracy	72,100[107]	11,270
36	Kuwait	3,399,637[108]	85%[109]	Sunni/Shi’a	State religion [110]	Constitutional monarchy	15,500[111]	39,305
37	Albania	3,170,048[112]	70%[113]	Sunni	None	Parliamentary republic	9,500[114]	6,897[115]
38	Mauritania	3,124,000[116]	99.99%[117]	Sunni	Islamic state[118]	Military junta	15,750[119]	2,008
39	Oman	2,577,000[120]	93%[121]	Ibadi	State religion[122]	Absolute monarchy	41,700[123]	23,967
40	Kosovo[a]	2,100,000[124]	90%[125]	Sunni	Secular[126]	Parliamentary republic	–	1,800[127]
41	The Gambia	1,700,000	90%[128]	Sunni	Secular	Presidential republic	800[129]	1,326
42	Bahrain	1,046,814	81%[130]	Shi’a	State religion[131]	Constitutional monarchy	11,200[132]	32,604
43	Comoros	798,000	98%[133]	Sunni	State religion	Federal republic	–	1,125
44	Qatar	744,029[134]	77.5%[135]	Sunni	State religion[136]	Absolute monarchy	12,400[137]	80,870
45	Djibouti	496,374	94%[138]	Sunni	Secular	Semi-presidential republic	9,850[139]	2,271
46	Brunei	381,371[140]	67%[141]	Sunni	State religion	Absolute monarchy	7,000[142]	51,005
47	Maldives	350,000[143]	100% [144]	Sunni	State religion[145]	Presidential republic	1,000[146]	4,604

Footnotes

• ^† The statistic of 100% only applies to citizens of Saudi Arabia, and does not include the total population. There is currently no data or information regarding the religious beliefs of the people, and all Saudi citizens are regarded as Wahhabi, 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.^[147]

a.	^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Serbia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo. Kosovo declared independence on 17 February 2008, while Serbia claims it as part of its own sovereign territory. Kosovo is recognised by 69 of the 192 UN member states.

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Palestinians: Arabic-speaking people. Total Palestinian population is estimated at approximately 12 million, roughly less than half continuing to live within the boundaries of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In this combined area, as of 2009, Arabs constitute 49% of all inhabitants.^[14] The remainder, about 1.9 million live in neighboring Jordan,^[16] one and a half million between Syria and Lebanon, a quarter million in Saudi Arabia, while Chile‘s half a million are the largest concentration outside the Arab world.

By religious affiliation, most Palestinians are Muslim, particularly of the Sunni branch of Islam