Wednesday, February 8, 2012

7. Demographics of Sunni Islam

Estimates of the world Sunni population varies from over 75% to 90% of all Muslims.
Sunni Muslims dominate in Middle East, Southeast Asia, and North Africa.
Algeria is nearly 99% Sunni (Sunni Islam is the state religion), Kuwait is 70% and Afghanistan is 80% Sunni. Sunnis also outnumber Shi'ites in Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Sudan (70%), Syria (80%), Tajikistan (85%), Libya (97%), Jordan (92%) and certain islands like the Maldives, Comoros (98%) and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (80%).
The number of adherents of Sunni Islam is about 940 million.

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