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Estimates of around 20 million would be appropriate
Pakistan has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia.
In the early 21st century some 10–13 percent of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims were Shiʿi.
Of the total Muslim population, 10–13% are Shia Muslims and 87–90% are Sunni Muslims.
Of the total Muslim population, 30%-40% are Shia Muslims and 60-70% are Sunni Muslims.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Of the total Muslim population, 10-13% are Shia Muslims and 87-90% are Sunni Muslims. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.
Increases in the global Muslim population are largely due to Muslims having a relatively young age structure and high fertility rate, two characteristics that result in natural population growth.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Muslims and Hindus have been the least likely to gain or lose adherents from religious switching. About one in every 100 adults raised Muslim (or Hindu) has left their childhood religion, and a similar number from a different religious category have switched into Islam (or Hinduism).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Islam is the youngest, the fastest growing, and in many ways the least complicated of the world's great monotheistic faiths. It is based on its own holy book, but it is also a direct descendant of Judaism and Christianity, incorporating some of the teachings of those religions—modifying some and rejecting others.
Estimates of around 20 million would be appropriate
The Prophet of Islam was a religious, political, and social reformer who gave rise to one of the great civilizations of the world. From a modern, historical perspective, Muḥammad was the founder of Islam. From the perspective of the Islamic faith, he was God's Messenger (rasūl Allāh), called to be a "warner," first to the Arabs and then to all humankind.
Of the total Muslim population, 10–13% are Shia Muslims and 87–90% are Sunni Muslims.
Islam is the youngest, the fastest growing, and in many ways the least complicated of the world's great monotheistic faiths. It is based on its own holy book, but it is also a direct descendant of Judaism and Christianity, incorporating some of the teachings of those religions—modifying some and rejecting others.
Of the total Muslim population, 30%-40% are Shia Muslims and 60-70% are Sunni Muslims.