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What percentage of Pakistanis are Sunni?

What percentage of Pakistanis are Sunni?

76%
Pakistan is a Sunni majority country, with 76% of Pakistanis identifying as Sunni and 10-15% estimated to be Shi’ites (2010 est.). Both variations of Islam have many different religious schools that Pakistanis adhere to. Sufism is quite popular among both Sunni and Shi’a Muslims.

What is the main religion in Pakistan?

The constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and requires all provisions of the law to be consistent with Islam.

What percentage of Pakistanis are Shia?

I’ll be talking about Shias in Pakistan. They constitute about 20 percent of Pakistan’s 180 million people. Pakistan is arguably one of the deadliest countries for Shias outside the Middle East.

Is Afghanistan Sunni or Shia?

Islam is the official state religion of Afghanistan, with approximately 99.7% of the Afghan population being Muslim. Roughly 90% practice Sunni Islam, while around 10% are Shias. Most Shias belong to the Twelver branch and only a smaller number follow Ismailism.

What percent of Afghanistan is Shia?

Shia Islam in Afghanistan Roughly 10% of the Afghan population is Shia. Majority of Shias in Afghanistan belong to the Twelver branch.

Are there Shia in India?

Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq. Iran has 66 million to 70 million Shias, or 37-40% of the world’s total Shia population. Iraq, India and Pakistan each are home to at least 16 million Shias.

Is Syria a Shia?

The Sunni Muslims make up the vast majority in the country (74% of Syria’s total population)). The Alawites are the minority group (10% of the country’s population), followed by Shia Ismailis (1%). Christians are the main non-Muslim group in the country, they comprise 10% of the population .

Is Tajikistan Sunni or Shiite?

The five post-Soviet countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) are secular states with a majority Sunni Muslim population — and each has a Shiite minority population.