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Countries with the Most Muslims

Try to name the countries which have the highest Muslim populations.
Percentages based from Pew Research Center (2017) and Wikipedia
Total population as of 5 November 2022. More info here.
Quiz by valdo94
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Last updated: November 6, 2022
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First submittedSeptember 7, 2014
Times taken117,830
Average score80.0%
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# Muslims
%
Answer
239 mil
86.7
Indonesia
229 mil
96.5
Pakistan
207 mil
14.6
India
156 mil
91
Bangladesh
118 mil
53.5
Nigeria
103 mil
92.4
Egypt
88.2 mil
99.4
Iran
80.0 mil
93.5
Turkey
45.4 mil
96
Sudan
44.7 mil
99
Algeria
# Muslims
%
Answer
43.3 mil
96.5
Iraq
41.4 mil
99.7
Afghanistan
39.0 mil
31.3
Ethiopia
37.8 mil
99
Morocco
35.2 mil
96.2
Saudi Arabia
33.0 mil
97.2
Yemen
30.9 mil
88.7
Uzbekistan
26.1 mil
98.3
Niger
24.7 mil
1.73
China
23.3 mil
35.2
Tanzania
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Level 77
Sep 12, 2014
1.8% of people in China are Muslim and yet they account for over 23 million people. It's insane how many people there are in China.
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Level 51
Oct 1, 2014
Yeah and in India as well! Only 14.6% are Muslim and yet account for 177.3 million. Crazy.
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Level 66
Mar 11, 2016
Atleast the population growth in these to countries has redused. I don't think any of thoes two will pass 1.5 Billion. It is very insteresting to learn and talk about population and religion. Watch Hans Rosling on Ted Talk (you can find videos on YouTube)
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Level 85
Jun 30, 2018
India is set to pass 1.5 billion.
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Level 73
Jun 30, 2018
China is probably being reduced because they have laws saying you can't have more than two kids per married couple. As well as they kill the 2nd born girl once they're born.
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Level 58
Apr 9, 2019
Nah, they recently made a new law, and now everyone under 18 is set for execution, and no more children can be had. That's communist regime for ya.
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Level 89
Oct 26, 2019
Yeah, get your spoon-fed propaganda straight.
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Level 44
Jul 21, 2021
Lots of wrong comments here lol. India's population is still exploding, and will pass China in the very near future. They will almost certainly pass 1.5 billion people, baring some catastrophic event.

As for China, they just passed a law allowing couples to have 3 children now as of May 2021.

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Level 72
Apr 10, 2023
They also said that in 2016.
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Level 59
Mar 11, 2024
2016 was 2 child policy i thought?
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Level 51
Nov 13, 2016
Yup. That's half roughly less then half the population of just the Guangzhou/Shenzen area. I agree it's insane.
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Level 76
Apr 11, 2017
1,388,040,453 in 2017
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Level 41
Oct 20, 2014
Forgot 4 of them, tried Turkmenistan, tried Tajikistan, tried Kyrgyzstan, cant believe i did not type in Uzbekistan too.
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Level 55
Apr 24, 2015
Sometimes, after spelling a few of them, I just run out of energy to try to spell the others. Sad but true.
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Level 68
Oct 1, 2016
....I did literally the EXACT same thing. Typed the exact same countries, still missed Uzbekistan, missed 4 countries total. Funny...
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Level 64
Nov 14, 2016
I only tried Turkmenistan, then thought: ugh, never mind. No regrets.
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Level 65
May 20, 2023
Fun fact: Uzbekistan is BY FAR the most populous Central Asian country, and Kazakhstan and Tajikistan are second and third respectively, and the third most populous "Stan" country, after Pakistan and Afghanistan, of course.
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Level 26
Mar 20, 2024
same thing lol
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Level 37
Oct 20, 2014
Missed out Sudan...
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Level 55
Nov 14, 2014
yes, by some accounts india has more muslims than pakistan, here they show about equal
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Level 27
Aug 12, 2020
Pakistan has 220 million muslims now
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Level 42
Apr 18, 2015
Got 100% on my first try! With Uzbekistan being the least guessed country, I'm guessing people started typing a few of the -stans (not Afghanistan or Pakistan) and then decided that none of the others had it. On another note: There would be much different results if this quiz was the highest percentage of Muslims.
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Level 78
Apr 19, 2015
There is a quiz called majority muslim countries which includes highest percenatage
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Level 74
Jun 15, 2015
missed number 20, a pretty easy guess considering I've been there multiple times.
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Level 34
Jun 26, 2015
love how 2% of china is more than Australia's population
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Level 85
Jul 14, 2015
cool...got 100% on first try....guessed ethiopia with 5 seconds left
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Level 52
Mar 11, 2016
I can't believe I forgot afghanistan.. What is wrong with me~!?
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Level 78
May 13, 2016
Surprised not to see Libya
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Level 78
May 14, 2016
Libya has population of 6 million people, while last country on this list has 17 million
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Level 70
Aug 15, 2016
Missed Uzbekistan, never realized their total population exceeded 30 million. Guess the other 3 million are Orthodox due to it being a former Soviet Republic.
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Level 82
Jan 2, 2021
or atheist
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Level 67
Nov 13, 2016
19/20. Dang Uzbekistan! >:-(
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Level 77
Nov 13, 2016
must be tough to be that 0.1% in Morocco
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Level 41
Nov 13, 2016
hahahahahaha
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Level 60
May 31, 2019
actually no, the jewish moroccan minority was always very well treated by the Moroccan monarchy, protected by the king during World War II, and one of the king's closest counselors is a Jewish Moroccan.
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Level 65
Nov 13, 2016
easy
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Level 61
May 31, 2019
You so smart!
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Level 66
Nov 18, 2022
Want a cookie?
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Level 43
Nov 14, 2016
I'm surprised Tanzania hasn't made this list yet. The country has a population of 55 million which is roughly evenly split between Muslims and Christians
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Level 67
Nov 14, 2016
Unfortunately, the number for Syria has decreased significantly since the quiz's data was gathered (refugee crisis).
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Level 60
Dec 8, 2016
got 'em all with a minute left.
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Level 80
Feb 15, 2017
What wonderful and progressive countries.
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Level 56
Mar 15, 2017
All on the first try!

35 seconds left

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Level 71
Oct 24, 2017
That moment when you got 18/20 and the 2 you missed are Iran and Iraq...
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Level 40
Dec 8, 2017
100% with first try, I almost missed Uzbekistan but then I tried all the stans and got it.
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Level 28
Jul 29, 2018
I missed Nigeria
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Level 46
Jan 31, 2019
How does only 53% guess Saudi Arabia I thought that was the most obvious
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Level 79
Jan 31, 2019
Where is Malaysia?
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Level 74
Feb 1, 2019
Southeast Asia, next to Indonesia. The Wikipedia article Islam in Malaysia with numbers from 2013, tells us are there approximately 19.5 million Muslin adherents. Malaysia probably should be added to this quiz unless their number of muslims has somehow steeply declined in 5 years.
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Level 79
Apr 3, 2020
Haha, I know where Malaysia is, geographically (along with all other countries by the way; well at least nearly all of them; I often get confused between the Caribbean countries and Pacific island ones). Also, I come from Malaysia, so I definitely should know where it is! 😉
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
Why would you ask something you already knew? ;)
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Level 48
Feb 1, 2019
Got Uzbekistan with 40 sec
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Level 66
May 31, 2019
How did more people get Nigeria than Niger?
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Level 67
May 31, 2019
Lol
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Level 79
Apr 3, 2020
Yes. Does anyone know the answer to that question? Is it because many quiz takers type 'Nigeria' so quickly that their computers were unable to accept Niger before Nigeria?
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Level 56
Jul 24, 2020
In that case, both Niger and Nigeria will be accepted simultaneously.
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Level 78
Jul 31, 2020
You start with -igeria, and add the N last. Edit, that brings them both up.
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Level 55
May 19, 2022
Probably copy and paste or smth idk.
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Level 75
Nov 18, 2022
I don't really know how these results are tabulated, but Niger has one of the highest rates of population growth in the world - and it's near the bottom of the list. So, maybe, earlier, Nigeria was on this list, and Niger wasn't. And maybe, during that time, Nigeria was guessed more frequently than once Niger got on the list. If that's the case, then maybe Nigeria's percentage would have come down, but Niger's would be still lower.
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Level 71
Jun 30, 2023
This is probably it. Niger and Nigeria are now at the same %.
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Level 55
Aug 27, 2020
yeah how is that even possible
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Level 67
Feb 26, 2022
Maybe there's some type-in?
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
There isn't. Even if you paste Nigeria, it will also be accepted for Niger.
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Level 55
Jul 22, 2021
Atleast for me I have a SwiftKey keyboard. Meaning I swipe over letters and it types the word in one go. So no need to type out individual letters.
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Level 47
May 31, 2019
mine us
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Level 67
May 31, 2019
I'm muslim, 19/20. Only missed Sudan.
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Level 35
May 31, 2019
Just missed Uzbekistan.
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
Did that twice.
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Level 53
Jun 2, 2019
If you need to type Niger to spell Nigeria, HOW DO MORE PEOPLE GET NIGERIA?!?
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Level 68
Jun 4, 2019
That's exactly what I'm asking myself right now...
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Level 79
Apr 3, 2020
Me too.
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Level 55
Jul 22, 2021
SwiftKey keyboard. I guess.
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
Then I think both would be accepted.
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Level 78
May 5, 2020
I already put that, so in next revision of quiz it will be fixed :D
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Level 88
Jul 31, 2020
turkey 99 % that is wrong
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Level 55
Sep 20, 2020
Check the total population, and you will see what is what. Muslim includes the Shi'a, the Alevis, the Bektasis, the Sunnis, etc. etc. etc. There are also Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Jews, but when you consider the overall population, and figure those numbers in you'll see.
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Level 82
Jan 2, 2021
There are very few Christians and Jews left, but there are way more than 0.8 % atheists in Turkey, so it depends on your source and methodology.
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Level ∞
Jun 1, 2021
It's tricky. 99.8% of people in Turkey are registered Muslims. Only 0.2% belong Christianity or another religion. However, up to 10% of people may be irreligious.
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Level 32
Mar 2, 2021
Good Thanks !
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Level 44
Jul 21, 2021
really surprised that Mauritania wasn't on here.
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
I don't think there's too many people there. That being said, I did also try it.
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Level 66
Jul 21, 2021
According to Wikipedia there is 30.1 million Uzbeks, and 88% of them are Muslim. So there is 26.7 million Uzbek Muslims. Still enough to be on the list though.
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Level 44
Oct 21, 2021
got tanzania but not afghanistan
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Level 78
Nov 3, 2021
I tried Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and I figured it wouldn't even be worth it to try Uzbekistan. I was -wrong-.
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Level 64
Nov 15, 2022
But Uzbekistan has a larger population than Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan combined... It is comfortably the most heavily populated country in Central Asia.
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
Huh. Didn't realize that!
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Level 30
May 21, 2022
Was reading comments, and remembered Tanzania all of a sudden and got it with 0:02 to spare.
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Level 64
Nov 15, 2022
I álways forget that Yemen is one of the most densely populated countries in the Middle East... Part of my brain always assumes their population is roughly equal to Oman's.
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Level 58
Nov 16, 2022
19/20 ran out of time Tanzania got me!
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Level 59
May 17, 2023
I got the #1 country last . . .
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Level 72
Aug 28, 2023
Do we need an update? The Pakistan Wikipedia page says "It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of 241.5 million people, and has the world's largest Muslim population as of year 2023." and on the "Islam by Country" page it has Pakistan at 249 million and Indonesia at 275 million.
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Level 72
Nov 7, 2023
I meant Wikipedia has Pakistan at 240,760,000 Muslims and Indonesia at 231,069,932.
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Level 50
Nov 17, 2023
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