WASHINGTON: The world Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly one in four people on the globe practises Islam, according to a study. India has the third-largest population of the community, whose figure of 160.94 million was only next to that in Indonesia (202.86 million) and Pakistan (174 million).
The study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which covered more than 200 countries, found that Muslims of all ages living in the world today represent 23 per cent of the world population of 6.8 billion. “While Muslims are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60 per cent of the global Muslim population is in Asia and about 20 per cent is in the Middle East and North Africa.”
More than 300 million Muslims, live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion
World Muslim population is 1.57 billion
