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To the left is a map showing the top ten most populous countries as ranked by the CIA website (Country Comparison).
The countries are ranked as follows (one being most populous and ten being the least). 1. China - Population: 1,373,541,278 2. India - Population: 1,266,883,598 3. United States - Population: 323,995,528 4. Indonesia - Population: 258,316,051 5. Brazil- Population: 205,823,665 6. Pakistan- Population: 201,995,540 7. Nigeria- Population: 186,053,386 8. Bangladesh - Population: 156,186,882 9. Russia- Population: 142,355,415 10. Japan- Population: 126,702,133 Works Cited: "COUNTRY COMPARISON :: POPULATION." Central Intelligence Agency. Central Intelligence Agency, n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2017. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html>. |
To the right we are able to see a few of the countries within the world which practice Islam. The countries listed also happen to the the four countries which have the highest Islamic population in the world (Countries With The Largest...). Compared to the world map listed above, we are able to see that the four countries in which Islam is the most widely practiced, also happen to be four of the ten most populous countries in the world. Per the WorldAtlas website, Indonesia has the highest Islamic population in the world with 201.9 million followers. Next is Pakistan with 176.2 million followers, India with 167.4 million, and Bangladesh with 134.4 million followers (Countries With The Largest...).
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