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    Personally Know a Muslim

    Nearly half of Americans (45%) personally know a Muslim, slightly more than in November 2001, when 38% said they personally knew a Muslim.

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    Methodology for Sunni-Shia Estimates

    For the purposes of this report, sectarian differences among Muslims were simplified into two categories: Sunni and Shia. It should be noted, however, that both these groups contain self-identified Muslim communities that may be considered heterodox or nonmainstream by other Muslims. Unlike estimates for Muslim populations overall, almost no censuses and relatively few surveys ask […]

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    Public Closely Tracking Health Care Debate

    Summary of Findings Americans followed the health care debate more closely than any other news story last week as Senate Democrats struggled to find a compromise that would allow them to move legislation through their chamber despite strong Republican opposition. About three-in-ten (31%) say the health care debate was the story they followed most closely, […]

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    Interactive Data Table: World Muslim Population by Region

    For information about how data for each country or territory were collected and analyzed, see Data Sources by Country. Sources include national censuses, demographic and health surveys, and other general population surveys and studies. Population figures for previous years have been projected forward to 2009 based on the assumption that the Muslim population of the country […]

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    See Muslims as Victims of Discrimination

    Nearly six-in-ten adults say that Muslims are subject to a lot of discrimination, far more than say the same about Jews, evangelical Christians, atheists or Mormons.

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    Know Muslim Name for God

    A slim majority of Americans (53%) know the Muslim name for God is Allah, and a similar number (52%) can correctly name the Koran as the Islamic sacred text.

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    Obama’s Nobel Prize

    The Peace Prize award is another sign of the president’s international appeal; his election lifted America’s image around the globe

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    Interactive Data Table: World Muslim Population by Country

    For information about how data for each country or territory were collected and analyzed, see Data Sources by Region. Sources include national censuses, demographic and health surveys, and other general population surveys and studies. Population figures for previous years have been projected forward to 2009 based on the assumption that the Muslim population of the […]

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    Less Confidence in bin Laden Among Muslims

    Just a quarter of Muslims in Indonesia now have confidence in Osama bin Laden; similarly sharp declines are seen elsewhere in the Muslim world.

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    Data Sources by Country

    The below list of general sources provides bibliographic information for sources that were used to provide estimates for the Muslim populations of multiple countries. The subsequent list of sources by country provides abbreviated bibliographic information identifying which general sources were used to provide estimates for countries, as well as fuller bibliographic information for sources that […]