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Islam is India's second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census. [7] India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. [8] [9] The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of the Muslim ...
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 ...
Currently, Islam is the second largest religion in India, with 14.2% of the country's population or roughly 172 million people identifying as adherents of Islam (2011 census). [75] The estimated number of Muslims in India for 2024 is projected to be around 204,760,392. [76]
South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims living here. [17] [18] Islam is the dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh and Afghanistan). It is the second largest religion in India and third largest in Sri Lanka and Nepal.
India is home to 200 million Muslims who make up a large minority group in the country of more than 1.4 billion people. ... Modi has also increasingly mixed religion with politics in a formula ...
[7] [8] In 1951, at the time of the first population census, just 18% of Indians were literate while life expectancy was 32 years. [9] Based on 1951 census of displaced persons, 7,226,000 Muslims went to Pakistan (both West and East Pakistan) from India, while 7,249,000 Hindus and Sikhs moved to India from Pakistan (both West and East Pakistan ...
The fight over claims to holy sites has divided India, which has a Hindu majority but also the world's third-largest Muslim population, since independence from British rule in 1947.
Editor’s Note: Ziya Us Salam is an associate editor at newspaper The Hindu and author of “Being Muslim in Hindu India.” The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more CNN Opinion.