Dearborn is the seventh-largest city in Michigan and is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States per capita. It also is home to the largest mosque in North America.
Muslims represent a majority of the local population in Lakshadweep (96.2%) and Jammu and Kashmir (68.3%). The largest concentration – about 47% of all Muslims in India, live in the three states of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Bihar.
Other religions are growing but continue to make up a small proportion of the population. Hinduism has grown by 55.3 per cent to 684,002 people, or 2.7 per cent of the population. Islam has grown to 813,392 people, which is 3.2 per cent of the Australian population.
Most of these new immigrants settled in the outer boroughs, in neighborhoods such as Bay Ridge, Jackson Heights, Midwood, Astoria, Boerum Hill, and the West Bronx. Alongside other foreign-born residents, they would play a key role in reviving the city's fortunes following the crisis years of the 1970s.
Muslims are a fast-growing community in the state; there are at least 420,000 Muslims in Texas today.
The majority of the world's Muslims live in Muslim countries, specifically in Asia and the Middle East, with Indonesia being the country with the largest Muslim population. However, the Muslim population is also growing in other regions, such as Europe and North America, due to immigration and conversion.
According to the 2016 census, the Muslim population numbered 604,235 individuals, of whom 42% live in Greater Sydney, 31% in Greater Melbourne, and 8% in Greater Perth.
The proportion of Muslims was highest among immigrants from Jordan (40% of Jordanian Australians are Muslim), followed by Syria (34% of Syrian Australians are Muslim) and Iraq (31% of Iraqi Australians are Muslim). Arab Australians are mainly concentrated in Victoria and New South Wales.
Hinduism is Australia's fastest growing religion. The diversity of modern Australia connects us to every part of the world, including South Asia.
The main regions of the world with a predominantly Islamic population are located in Central Asia, the entire Middle East and Western Asia (except Armenia and Israel), all of North Africa, and many countries in West Africa, South Asia, and Maritime Southeast Asia. In how many countries is Islam the main religion?
Approximately 9% of New York City residents are Muslim, constituting 22.3% of American Muslims, with 1.5 million Muslims in the greater New York metropolitan area, representing the largest metropolitan Muslim population in the Western Hemisphere [2] and the most ethnically diverse Muslim population of any city in the ...
As of 2012, the city of Houston has the largest Muslim population in Texas and the largest Muslim population in the Southern United States.
While this number is dwarfed by the 50% to 70% growth in cities like Dallas and Atlanta, according to Bagby, the Chicago area still has a higher percentage of Muslims than most U.S. cities. CAIR-Chicago's Sohel estimates that there are between 350,000 and 500,000 Muslims in the area.
About 90 percent of the Australian Jewish community live in Sydney and Melbourne. Melbourne Ports has the largest Jewish community of any electorate in Australia. The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has estimated that 60,000 Australian Jews live in Victoria.
As the city with the largest overseas-born population in Australia, Sydney is an important entry point for many new arrivals to the country. Sydney is not only home to a number of established migrant communities, but also hosts a number of higher education institutions and businesses which draw in overseas migrants.
Chinese and Indian Australians, particularly second and third generation immigrants, are present in large numbers in Sydney and Melbourne, with Chinese Australians constituting Sydney's fourth largest ancestry group.
According to the 2016 census, Queensland (56.03%) and New South Wales (55.18%) had Christian majorities, while the lowest proportion of Christians were found in the Northern Territory (47.69%) and the Australian Capital Territory (45.38%).
Nationally, the Bureau of Statistics recorded 813,392 Muslims in Australia in 2021. Islam is the world's fastest growing religion. Due to globalisation, immigration and higher birth rates — as noted by Pew Research Centre — it makes sense. Interestingly, there's also a gradual stream of Westerners picking up Islam.
The Pew Research Center estimated that there were 185,000 Muslims in Japan in 2010. For 2019 it was estimated that the numbers rose to 230,000, due to the more friendly policies towards immigration, the Japanese converts being estimated at 50,000, and Japan now has more than 110 mosques compared to 24 in 2001.
Modern growth. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. In 1990, 1.1 billion people were Muslims, while in 2010, 1.6 billion people were Muslims.