"Say We believe in God and what is revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and I`saac and Jacob and the Tribes, and what was entrusted to Moses and Jesus and the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them and to Him we have surrendered."
(Quran 3: 84)
Islam is the fastest growing religion and
the second largest religion in the world
Population Wise
Muslims in Asia (1996)
1,022,692,000 (30%)
Muslims in Africa (1996)
426,282,000 (59%)
Total Number of Muslims on the Earth (1996)
1,482,596,925
Total Number of People on the Earth (1996)
5,771,939,007
Percentage Wise
Percentage of Muslims (1996)
26%
Islam annual growth rate (1994-1995) from U.N.
6.40%
Christianity growth rate (1994-1995) from U.N.
1.46%
Total Number of Muslims on the Earth (1998)
1,678,442,000
Expected Number of Muslims on the Earth (2000)
1,902,095,000
The growth of Islam
North America (1989-1998)
25%
Africa
2.15%
Asia
12.57%
Europe
142.35%
Latin America
-4.73%
Australia
257.01%
Among every four humans in the world, one of them is Muslim. Muslims have increased by over 235 percent in the last fifty years up to nearly 1.6 billion. By comparison, Christians have increased by only 47 percent, Hinduism, 117 percent, and Buddhism by 63 percent. Islam is the second largest religious group in France, Great Britain and USA (Muslims in USA are 10 millions and Jews are 6 millions).
The number of the total population has been taken from The CIA World's Facts Book
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