"A quarter of all Muslims today exist as a minority - they are overlooked by many. However, they are an important part of the ummah. [...]
The oldest community outside Mecca, that in Ethiopia, accounts for 36 percent of all inhabitants in this African country. Other leading, and in some cases historical, minorities include those of China (28 million), Tanzania (21 million), Russia (16 million), Côte d'Ivoire (9 million) and the Philippines (6 million). [...]
India is the second largest community in the world with an estimated 213 million members (as of 2020). It is estimated that it will overtake Indonesia in terms of size in the next 50 years.
What many people are not aware of is that some of the population groups listed in a minority situation are larger than those of OIC states. For example, there are more people living in India than in Nigeria and Egypt combined. There are more Muslims in Ethiopia than in Saudi Arabia, more in China than in Syria, more in Tanzania than in Somalia and more in Russia than in Tunisia.
In the Euro-American region, there were around 29 million members in 2020. This is a comparatively new development, as most communities emerged after 1945. [...] According to some estimates, there will be a total of 45 million Muslims in the “western nine” countries.
Today, more Muslims live in France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy than in the only Muslim countries in Europe, Albania and Kosovo."