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How many followers of Islam are there in the world?

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Best estimates put Islam at between 1 billion and 1.4 billion people. The most cited is 1.2 billion adherents. This makes Islam the second largest religion in the world with approximately 1 billion less followers than Christianity.

However, there is considerable difficulty in ascertaining the number of Muslims and as a result most measurements are inflated. The issue of apostasy in Islam is a major factor in this discrepancy. Countries such as Pakistan, The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Egypt disallow legal recognition of non-Islamic religions, Islamic apostates and or impose the death penalty as a punishment for apostasy.

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There are between 1.1 billion and 1.8 billion Muslims, making Islam the second-largest religion in the world

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