Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Numbers that might surprise you

Here's a bit of context for your students to consider the next time you teach about Iran. It's the 15 largest Muslim populations in the world.


  1. Indonesia 196.3 million
  2. India 133.3 million
  3. China 133.1 million
  4. Pakistan 125.4 million
  5. Bangladesh 104.6 million
  6. Nigeria 77.9 million
  7. Iran 65.4 million
  8. Turkey 62.4 million
  9. Egypt 59.7 million
  10. Ethiopia 37.1 million
  11. Morocco 29.4 million
  12. Sudan 26.8 million
  13. Russia 26.7 million
  14. Iraq 20.8 million
  15. Saudi Arabia 19.4 million


From IslamicWeb.com, which based its numbers on the CIA World Factbook.


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