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The data on the religious affiliation of Iraq's population are uncertain. 95–99% of the population are Muslims. [15] [16] The CIA World Factbook reported a 2015 estimate according to which 36–39% were Sunni Muslims and 61-64% Shia Muslims. [15] According to a 2011 survey by Pew Research, 51% of the Muslims identified as Shia and 42% as ...
The percentage of Christians has fallen from 6% in 1991 or 1.5 million to about one third of this. Estimates say there are 500,000 Christians in Iraq. [32] Nearly all Iraqi Kurds identify as Sunni Muslims. A 2014 survey in Iraq concluded that "98% of Kurds in Iraq identified themselves as Sunnis and only 2% identified as Shias". [33]
By 1948, their population numbered around 150,000 to 450,000, constituting approximately 3% of Iraq's total population. Following the establishment of Israel in 1948, Jews in Iraq faced persecution, as was the case in much of the Arab and Muslim world.
A CIA World Factbook report from 2015 estimates that 29–34% of the population of Iraq is Sunni Muslim. [2] According to a 2011 survey by Pew Research , 42% of Iraqi Muslims are Sunni. [ 3 ] There were about 9 million Sunni Arabs , 5 million Sunni Kurds and 3 million Sunni Turkmens in Iraq, according to a report published in 2015.
An older 2011 Pew Research Center estimated that 51% of Muslims in Iraq see themselves as Shia, 42% as Sunni, while 5% as "just a Muslim". [192] Iraq is also home to two of the holiest places among the Shi'as – Najaf and Karbala. [193] Shia Muslims are mostly concentrated in southern Iraq and in parts of north region and Baghdad.
South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. [22] [23] [24] Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million ...
The largest minority group in Iraq is the Kurds, with Turkmen following shortly after. Prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Assyrians constituted a sizeable population of 1.5 million, and belonged to various different churches such as the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, and the Syriac Orthodox/Catholic Churches.
From 1950 to 1952 Iraq saw a great exodus of roughly 120,000–130,000 of its Jewish population under the Israel-led "Operation Ezra and Nehemiah". There were at least two large waves of expatriation of both Christians and Muslims alike.