Six countries house more than half of the Muslims around the world

Source: Pew Research website.

Muslims are concentrated in the Asia Pacific region, where six-in-ten (62%) of all Muslims reside, says 2012 figures from Pew Research. Against the total population by region, about one-in-four people (24%) are Muslims. The Middle East-North Africa region is almost wholly Muslim (93%), but represent only about 20% of the world’s Muslims.

The largest share of Muslims live in Indonesia (13%), followed by India (11%), Pakistan (11%), Bangladesh (8%), Nigeria (5%), Egypt (5%), Iran (5%), Turkey (5%), Algeria (2%) and Morocco (2%)*.

In August 2014, Pew Research updated its figures in a 'Fact Tank' about where people from different religions are clustered around the world. The top six nations where Muslims live together account for 53% of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, the consultancy said, accounting for 30% of the world’s population.

Pew Research also created an infographic in 2013 about the world's Muslims which can be viewed here.

*The difference between the rankings in this report, which states that India comes before Pakistan, and previous reports, where Pakistan was ranked larger than India, is primarily due to a downward revision by the United Nations Population Division of its estimate of the size of Pakistan’s total population and an upward revision of the UN estimate of India’s total population.