According to the Finland official census (2021), there are 20,876 people in Finland belonging to registered Muslim communities, representing 0.37% of the total population. However, the vast majority of Muslims in Finland do not belong to any registered communities.
However, Finnish legislation in respect of religious freedom is appreciated by the Muslim population. Dressing code and rules – Islamic dress or hijab, which is worn by some Muslim women, has not become an issue in Finland and Ireland in the way it has in France and Germany.
There are around 40 mosques in Finland, of which two are purpose-built and owned by the Tatar community.
The largest religious group in Finland is the Evangelical Lutheran Church, to which about 60% of Finns belong. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and the Orthodox Church of Finland enjoy special status in Finland: for example, they have the power to levy taxes.
Sweden's official statistics counted 241,933 formally affiliated Muslims in 2020. The US Department of State's Sweden 2014 International Religious Freedom Report set the 2014 figure at around 6% (almost 600,000) of the total Swedish population.
Islam has grown to 813,392 people, which is 3.2 per cent of the Australian population.
According to the survey data, there are 850 thousand Muslims in the Netherlands, i.e. approximately 5 percent of the population. This implies that nearly half of people with a non-western background living in the Netherlands adhere to Islam.
According to the Finland official census (2021), there are 20,876 people in Finland belonging to registered Muslim communities, representing 0.37% of the total population. However, the vast majority of Muslims in Finland do not belong to any registered communities.
85% of Norwegians belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway, but this membership is primarily cultural, as religious practice is low. There is no separation between Church and State: the Church of Norway is recognised by the constitution and the King is the head.
Arabic is Finland's third most spoken foreign language, after Russian and Estonian. As of 2018, 29,462 people speak it as their mother tongue. 1.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Finland refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Finland. In 1950, there were 204 members in Finland. In December of 2022, there were 4,826 members in 29 congregations.
There are quite a number of halal restaurants in Helsinki. Some of the well-known halal restaurants in Helsinki include RavintolaHabibi, RavintolaGrecia, Singapore Restaurant, Fez, Maharaja Restaurant, New Bamboo Center, TurkkilainenRavintolaHalikarnas, etc.
Iran and neighboring Taliban-controlled Afghanistan are the only countries where the hijab remains mandatory for women. Before protests erupted in September, it was rare to see women without headscarves, though some occasionally let their hijab fall to their shoulders.
In the Indonesian Aceh province, Muslim women are required to wear the hijab and all women are required to do so regardless of religion in Iran and Afghanistan. In countries such as Saudi Arabia, the hijab is not required.
Although Islam is a minority religion in Russia, Russia has the largest Muslim population in Europe. According to the US Department of State in 2017, Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population.
Muslims are a minority group in China, representing 1.6 to 2 percent of the total population (21-28 million people) according to various estimates. Though Hui Muslims are the most numerous group, the greatest concentration of Muslims are in Xinjiang, which contains a significant Uyghur population.
Between 2010 and 2016, the number of Muslims living in Germany rose from 3.3 million (4.1% of the population) to nearly 5 million (6.1%), while the rest of the population shrank modestly from 77.1 million to 76.5 million.
5% of the Swiss population are Muslim, most of whom originate from the Balkans and Turkey and mainly live in the cities. Other Christian denominations in Switzerland make up 6% of the population, of which the largest group at 2% are followers of the Orthodox Church. 0.2% of the Swiss population are Jewish.
Around 62% of the world's Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region (from Turkey to Indonesia), with over one billion adherents. As of June 2023, the largest Muslim population in a country is in Pakistan (240,760,000), followed by Indonesia (236,000,000), India (200,000,000), and Bangladesh (150,800,000).
Although accurate statistics on religion are not available (because the national census does not solicit religious data), the actual size of Argentina's Muslim community is estimated to be around 1% of the total population (400,000 to 500,000 members), according to the International Religious Freedom Report in 2015.
Belgium has a population of ten million people and 5% of them—over 500,000—are Muslim. Muslims also constitute about 20% of the population of Brussels, the capital of the European Union. Over 300,000 Belgian Muslims are of Moroccan ancestry and over 160,000 are Turkish.
According to the latest 2021 United Kingdom census, 3,801,186 Muslims live in England, or 6.7% of the population. The Muslim population again grew by over a million compared to the previous census.
The distribution by state of the nation's Islamic followers has New South Wales with 50% of the total number of Muslims, followed by Victoria (33%), Western Australia (7%), Queensland (5%), South Australia (3%), ACT (1%) and both Northern Territory and Tasmania sharing 0.3%.