Washington,
Washington, Oct 8 (PTI) Muslim population across the globe stands at 1.57 billion which means nearly one in four people in the world practice Islam, according to a study which also says that India has the third-largest population of the community.
The study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life which covered more than 200 countries found that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23 per cent of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion.
"While Muslims are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60 per cent of the global Muslim population is in Asia and about 20 per cent is in the Middle East and North Africa," the study said.
However, the Middle East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries.
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