- Demographics: One fifth of the world population is statistically Islam. Muslims are the majority in 52 nations.
* 3-11 million Muslims in the Americas (estimates vary greatly)- 5-8 million Muslims in Canada and the United States- 1-3 million Muslims in Latin America
* 84 million Muslims in Europe (including Turkey)- 10 million Muslims in Western Europe, mostly in the UK, France, Germany- 7 million Muslims in the Balkans, mostly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania and Republic of Macedonia- 67 million Muslims in Turkey
* 284 million Muslims in the Middle East or Arab League
* 254 million Muslims in Sub-Saharan Africa
* 103 million Muslims in Central Asia- 49 million Muslims in the former republics of the Soviet Union: Central Asia - in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan- 26 million Muslims in Russia- 28 million Muslims in Afghanistan
* 450 million Muslims in South Asia- 156 million Muslims in Pakistan- 127 million Muslims in Bangladesh- 174 million Muslims in India
* 289 million Muslims in East Asia- 30 million Muslims in China- 209 million Muslims in Indonesia (the largest National Muslim community in the world)- 30 million Muslims in the rest of South-East Asia, especially Malaysia and Brunei.- Small populations in Japan, Mongolia, North Korea or the South Pacific
* Over 1.5 billion in total
The World Factbook 2006 estimates the world has about 6,525,170,264 billion people. Of those, 1.4 billion people, 20.12% are Muslims. Other estimates for 2006 put the Muslim population at about 1.6 billion people.