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The US Department of State's Sweden 2014 International Religious Freedom Report set the 2014 figure of Muslims in Sweden at around 600,000 people, 6% of the total Swedish population. A 2017 Pew Research report documents Sweden's Muslim population at 810,000 people, 8.1% of Sweden's total population of 10 million people.
Any country in which Muslims make up 50% or more of the population is considered a Muslim majority country. The country with the largest number of Muslims overall is Indonesia, which is home to an estimated 231 million Muslims. This is 86.7% of the Indonesian population and nearly 13% of the world’s total population of Muslims. In Indonesia ...
- A Brief History of Islam in Europe
- European Countries with Greatest Shares of Muslims in Their Population
- Factors Driving The Rise in Europe’s Muslim Population
While Islam has a relatively recent history in the countries of Western Europe, it has a long history in the Balkans region of the continent. Islam first arrived in southern Europe in the 8th to 10th centuries via the invaders from North Africa. However, Christian conquest of the region later led to the end of Islamic reign and conversion of a larg...
From the table below (data obtained from the Pew Research Center), we can see that the top five countries with the greatest share of Muslims in their population are all from the Balkans region. Kosovo, Albania, and Bosnia rank the highest with 93.8%, 80.3%, and 45.2% of the total population being Muslim respectively. In 2050, the share of Muslims i...
Large-scale immigration of Muslims seeking asylum in European countries, as well as those entering the continent for work and education and then staying back, have led to the spike in the continent’s Muslim population. Between mid-2010 and mid-2016, Europe received around 2.5 million Muslims. In addition to immigration, the relatively young age of ...
- Oishimaya Sen Nag
21. März 2024 · Mar 21, 2024. In 2022, there were 188,000 members of Islamic communities under the umbrella of the Islamic Cooperation Council in Sweden. The number of Muslims in Sweden increased steadily...
29. Nov. 2017 · The biggest increase for a country in any scenario would be Sweden in the high scenario – an increase of 22.4 percentage points, with the percentage of Muslims in the Swedish population rising to 30.6%.
1. Aug. 2018 · In 2018, according to unofficial data, the Muslim population of Sweden is balancing between 14,5 and 17,5%. 75% of all Muslims in Sweden live in two agglomerations, of which 53-55% in the metropolis of Stockholm and Uppsala, 20-25% in the capital of Denmark Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö connected by the Öresund Bridge ...
27. Nov. 2014 · The number of individuals with a Muslim background in Sweden has been estimated at 450,000 (Bevelander and Otterbeck 2012, p. 72).
