Majority Muslim countries

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This is a list of countries which have a majority of Muslim people using data from the CIA World Factbook. The table represents all the predominantly Muslim countries of the world, viewing the amount of Muslim population in the country, with the percentage. The economy of the countries are also shown to view how the economy of the Muslim world is today.

The population column of the table, is not the population of the country but is the Muslim population of the country, all data of population have been found by working out by the percentage of Muslims with the country population. Note some Muslim majority countries may appear in low figures, this is due to high population of foreign workers, which may not represent the indigenous population (†), and some are also estimates (~).

The percentage column, shows the Muslim percentage of the countries. If a country has over 90% then it has the largest and majority amount of Muslims but is not the largest of all. All data of percentages of Muslims can be found on the Demography pages of the countries.

The GDP (PPP) and GDP per capita is the data for the economy of the Muslim majority countries. The data can be used to compare rich or poor countries or compare the economy, all data of GDP (PPP) can be found in the main article of List of countries by GDP (PPP). The GDP per capita (PPP) have been obtained from IMF, from the World Economic Outlook Database for 2007, all information are estimates.

Rank	Country	Muslim population	Percentage	GDP (PPP) $m	GDP per capita (PPP) $
1		207,000,105	85-88%	1,053,696	4,684
2		159,799,666	96-97%	465,416	2,943
3		132,446,360	89.7%	360,965	2,270
4		72,301,532	90%	387,900	5,272
5		70,047,060	94-99%	722,581	10,380
6	*	67,515,582	50%	196,760	1,281
7		64,089,571	98%	647,592	9,127
8		33,723,418	98-99%	184,489	6,003
9		32,999,884	99%	278,889	8,203
10		31,571,023	99%	41,717	1,522
11		27,565,551	70%	114,929	3,093
12		26,674,649	97%	-	-
13		24,163,500	90.5%~†	417,669	17,196
14		24,446,452	88%	68,069	2,542
15		22,008,225	99%	22,615	1,015
16		17,383,272	90%	87,288	4,498
17		16,750,240	60.4%†	342,344	12,754
18		12,226,000	90%	13,514	1,012
19	*	13,247,197	35%	33,860	869
20		11,759,151	94%	25,508	2,086
21		10,795,860	90%	99,228	9,630
22		10,121,446	98%	99,228	9,630
23		9,118,000	99.89%	-	-
24		8,212,990	93.4%	72,858	6,476
25	*	8,065,381	53%	161,155	10,658
26		7,991,700	85%	23,997	2,438
27	*	7,113,000	50%	20,511	1,494
28	*	7,113,000	35%-40%	32,355	1,726
29		6,533,920	97%	10,510	1,637
30		6,036,811	97%	85,904	14,108
31		5,568,565	95%	34,158	5,964
32	*	5,041,690	51%	16,864	1,777
33		4,547,920	89%	49,180	9,483
34		3,528,000	60%	5,502	959
35		3,119,928	99.9%	7,493	2,530
36		3,416,960	76%†	159,329	35,516
37		2,580,054	92.66%	52,268	19,879
38		2,542,020	82%†	68,629	21,418
39		2,460,000	60%	22,373	5,965
40		2,233,000	70%~	19,621	6,197
41	*	2,220,000	45%~	4,915	1,011
42		-	-	-	-
43	*	1,972,013	40%	39,673	9,964
44		1,572,306	90%	3,816	2,402
45		1,089,000	99%	-	-
46		802,750	77.5%†	35,971	38,672
47	*	713,704	45%	1,311	780
48		668,361	98%	1,327	2,078
49		619,100	81.2%†	19,752	25,851
50		471,555	94%	2,039	2,665
51		306,000	99.98%	3,288	9,531
52		234,608	67%	10,169	26,411

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Note countries which have approximately 50% number of Muslims appear in * and is the majority religion.

''If ~ appears on a country then it is an estimate of the percentage.

If † appears on a country then it has a high foreign population which affects the Muslim percentage, and does not present the indigenous population. (ie - Gulf States)

Majority Muslim countries

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