As of October 2009, there are about 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today (in more than 200 countries of the world). This represents 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion people. (per study done by Pew forum). Refer to related link below.
60% of these Muslims live in Asia, mainly Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.
20% of these Muslims live in North Africa and the Middle East, from Morocco to Iran.
This shows a person how many Muslims are non-Arab and that Islam allows people of any background to convert and accept the religion. The country currently with the most Muslims is Indonesia.
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No, not all Muslims are Arabs. Islam is a global religion with followers from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities. While there are many Arab Muslims, Muslims come from various countries around the world.
Muslims make up 3 percent of the UKâ??s population. This percentage constitutes about 1.8 million of the 60 million living in Great Britain. By comparison, the world has approximately 2.4 billion Muslims.
There are approximately 1.8 billion Muslims in the world today, making Islam the second largest religion globally.
There are approximately 2 million Christians (one million Catholics and one million Protestants of varying sects), plus 1 million Muslims. Thus, the total would be 3 million, or about half of the world's total population. (Of the other 3 billion of the world's population, 1.2 billion are Chinese, 1.1 billion are from India, and the rest include "all others").
The highest estimate for the total number of Muslims living in the world today is around 2 billion.