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How many Sunnis are in Iraq?

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There are roughly 1800 million Muslims in the world, and the percent of Sunni Muslims in the Islamic faith is roughly 85-90%. Thus, around 1500 million of the total 7000 million people (1.5 out of 7 billion of the world population) is Sunni Muslim.

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There are nearly 53 Muslim nations in the world. out of the 53 nations only Iran is majority shia nationa while the rest are sunni nations or there majority population is sunni.

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Iraq has 33 millions population with 95% Muslims and 35% of Muslims in Iraq are Sunni Muslims and 65% are Shia Muslims. so Iraq has 11 millions of Sunni Muslims.

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