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Muslim Populace around the world

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This community consists of between 1.2 and 1.6 billion people, or roughly one-fifth of mankind. This diaspora is spread across many different nations and ethnic groups connected by religion and a shared sense of belonging.  With the exception of India, Ethiopia, China and Russia the majority of the population in the following countries are Muslim. Indonesia 202,867,000 (88.2%) Pakistan 174,082,000 (96.3%) India 160,945,000 (13.4%) Bangladesh 145,312,000 (89.6%) Egypt 78,513,000 (94.6%) Nigeria  78,056,000 (50.4%) Iran 73,777,000 (99.4%) Turkey 73,619,000 (98.0%) Algeria  34,199,000 (98.0  %) Morocco 31,993,000 (99.0%) Iraq  30,428,000 (99.0%) Sudan  30,121,000 (71.3%) Afghanistan 28,072,000 (99.7%) Ethiopia 28,063,000 (33.9%) Uzbekistan 26,469,000 (96.3%) Saudi Arabia 24,949,000 (97.0%) Yemen  23,363,000 (99.1%) China 21,667,000 (1.6%) Syria  20,196,000 (92.2%) Malaysia  16,581,000 (60.4%) Russia...

Arab World - countries, map and rulers

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Arabs are] A people/ethnicity/nation, including a culture, language and religion, that originated in the 7th century western Arabian peninsula, and was spread to almost all the aboriginal semitic peoples of the near east by conquest and forced conversions to Islam. Arabs are Muslims or are descendants of Muslim Arab ancestors (since it has always been illegal for an arab to convert to any other religion, the rare non-Muslim Arab is usually an atheist); Arabic is a  Semitic language  of the Arabo-Canaanite subgroup (Ruhlen 1987). With approximately 186 million speakers, it ranks in sixth place among the world’s major languages, behind Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, English and Bengali. list of current dictators: http://www.planetrulers.com/current-dictators/ Algeria Bahrain Djibuti Egypt Jordan Kuwait Iraq Jordan Lebanon Libya Mauritius Morocco Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Som...