The other parts of the UK, Scotland, and Northern Ireland report their census results separately. [240][241] It noted: "The RASE report lacks solid data, methodological transparency and rigour. [citation needed]. [163], In 20162018 an independent panel commissioned by the UK government investigated the practices of sharia councils operating in England and Wales. [127] Tell MAMA responded by identifying attempts to intimidate or discriminate against Ahmadiyya Muslims "as anti-Muslim in nature". (Alberto Pezzali / AP) Thats pretty fast growth, up from nearly 5 per cent in 2016, due mainly to migration and higher fertility in the Muslim population. Unfortunately, your request for information on the population of Shia Muslims is not held. This included overt racism in the form of "Paki bashing", predominantly from white power skinheads, the National Front, and the British National Party, throughout the 1970s and 1980s. [223][224][225][226][227] The EDL was a right wing, anti Islam[224][225][223][228][229] street protest movement which opposed what it considers to be a spread of Islamism, Sharia law and Islamic extremism in the United Kingdom. Published. The 2011 census recorded 2.7 million Muslims, which then constituted 4.8 per cent of the overall population. He was known locally for his work advocating trade unionism and divorce law reform and persuaded more people in Liverpool to convert but they faced abuse from the wider society. [238] In 2018, a report by a Sikh activist organisation, Sikh Youth UK, entitled "The Religiously Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of Young Sikh Women Across the UK" made allegations of similarities between the case of Sikh women and the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal. MCB is the largest and most diverse representative body for the British Muslim community in the UK. [90] There are numerous other Turkish mosques in London, mainly in Hackney, including the Aziziye Mosque[91] and Suleymaniye Mosque. This was, in part, due to the way British historians periodized South Asian history into an "ancient" Hindu one and a "medieval" Muslim one. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This is up from 2.7 million Muslims residing in England and Wales in 2011, which equated to 4.9% of the population. "> International Advocacy. [177] Mosques in the country are sometimes seen as ethnic clubs which are not welcoming of new converts but there have also been recent convert led mosques. [117] [204] In polls taken across Europe 2006, British Muslims hold the most negative view of westerners out of all Muslims in Europe, whilst overall in Britain 63% of British hold the most favourable view of Muslims out of all the European countries (down from 67% the year before). [81] At the time, the British Empire had already annexed Cyprus and the residents of Cyprus became subjects of the Crown. The accompanying dataset includes estimates for the Muslim population of England and Wales as both counts and percentages. We empower communities to thrive by mutual representation and collaboration. Islam is the world's second most widely practiced religion. Estimates for their number range between 30 and 85. the U.K. ranks number 21 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population. As UK Population Grows, So Do British Muslim [94] The majority live in capital city of London, particularly in Hackney, Haringey, Enfield, Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark, Croydon, Islington, Kensington, Waltham Forest, and Wood Green. While they in general are opposed to Western-style human rights, they use human rights to promote an Islamist ideology. [234] The group has faced confrontations with various groups, including supporters of Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Anonymous, of which the latter has also harassed Muslims as well. More recent data from the Office of National Statistics and their Annual Population Survey puts the population of Muslims in England, Scotland and Wales at 3.3 million. (Alberto Pezzali / AP) Today, Thursday, February 23, 2023, it is estimated that 2,004,797,793 people around the world identify themselves as Muslims, which represents over 25% of the world's total population of 8,019,191,174. Another new entry tp the list of 15 countries in 2050 would be the United Kingdom with 11.3% of its total population adhering to Islam. The AMC also has the largest Muslim youth organisation, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya) in the UK (membership of 7,500) and the largest Muslim women's organisation, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women's Association (Lajna Ima'illah), in the UK (membership of 10,000). "[193][194] Another survey by Gallup in 2009 also found that the Muslim community claimed to feel more patriotic about Britain than the general British population as a whole,[195][196] while another survey found that Muslims assert that they support the role of Christianity in British life more so than British Christians themselves. This process has continued down to the present day with the East London Mosque recently expanding into a large former car park where the London Muslim Centre is now used for prayers, recreational facilities and housing. Islam is the second-largest religion in the world, behind Christianity, with more than two billion adherents. "Acts and practices of citizenship: Muslim womens activism in the UK. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Pakistanis were one of the first South Asian Muslim communities to permanently settle in the United Kingdom, arriving in England first in the late 1940s. A September 2017 survey by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) found that among British Muslims, 77% were Sunni, 5% were Shia, 1% were Ahmadiyya, and 4% were members of other denominations. People born in India are the UKs largest foreign-born population, totaling an estimated 734,000 in 2013. The proportion of people who identify as Muslim has risen by 1.2 million in 10 years, bringing the Muslim population to 3.9 million in 2021, the census shows. Support for prohibiting all Muslim migration to the UK is 4-6% higher for Muslims than it is for other ethnic and religious groups: 18.1% of people support banning all Muslim migration to the UK (9.5% strongly support). Islam is the second largest religion in the United Kingdom, with results from the 2011 Census giving the total population as 2,786,635, or 4.4% of the total UK population, [4] while the 2021 Census results released so far (as of November 2022) show a population of 3,868,133 (6.5%) in England and Wales, 3,801,178 in England and 66,950 in Wales. 14% of British Muslims said they did not know or refused to answer the survey. The worlds Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the Pew Research Centers Forum on Religion & Public Life. Britain has long ties with Maghrebis, through contact with the Maghrebis. By the year 2050, in a mere 37 years, Britain will be a majority Muslim nation. Thank you for your Freedom of Information request about the Muslim population of the UK. It appealed heavily to historical tensions between Sikhs and Muslims and narratives of honour in a way that seemed designed to whip up fear and hate". Scotlands census was delayed to 2022 so data on religion has not yet been released but the 2011 census found that 76,737 people were Muslim. As per the report, there are 13,724 Muslims residing in England and Wales. 5.9 percent of england is muslim 2018 figures show that London was home to nearly 1.26 million Muslims, making up 14.2 per cent of the capital's population. IST. November 30, 2022. Further detail of strengths, limitations and quality information is outlined inSection 6of the article. The 2021 census will provide more up-to-date data. Immigration from Mirpur in Pakistan grew from the late 1950s, accompanied by immigration from other parts of Pakistan especially from Punjab, particularly from the surrounding Punjab villages of Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujar Khan and Gujarat, in addition to from the north-west Punjab including the chhachhi Pathans and Pashtuns from Attock District, and some from villages of Ghazi, Nowshera and Peshawar. London is the place with Marmaduke Pickthall, an English writer and novelist, and a convert to Islam, provided the first complete English-language translation of the Qur'an by a British Muslim in 1930. In addition, it is possible to find small areas that are almost entirely Muslim: for example, Savile Town in Dewsbury. [133], There are around 184 Muslim faith schools in the UK, 28 of them being state-funded. It is also one of the fastest growing religions and today, has approximately 1.7 billion followers. In the same year, Abdullah Quilliam installed a mosque in a terrace in Liverpool, which became the Liverpool Muslim Institute. Scotlands census was delayed to 2022 so data on religion has not yet been released but the 2011 census found that 76,737 people were Muslim. 29 Nov 2022 Muslim population stood at 3.9 million or 6.5 percent of the total UK population in 2021, up from 4.9 percent in 2011. [102] According to estimates by the Iraqi embassy, the Iraqi population in the UK is around 350,000450,000. Globally, the Muslim population is forecast to grow at about twice the rate of the non 36.3% agree that Islam threatens the British way of life. [62][73] All these groups work to stimulate Islamic identity among local Bengalis or Muslims and particularly focus on the younger members of the communities. [47], British Asians (both Muslim and non-Muslim) faced increased discrimination following Powell's Rivers of Blood speech and the establishment of the National Front in the late 1960s. There have been no more loyal adherents to the throne and no more effective and loyal supporters of the Empire in its hour of trial." 29 Nov 2022 Muslim population stood at 3.9 million or 6.5 percent of the total UK population in 2021, up from 4.9 percent in 2011. Under the system, the colonial period was classified as "modern". WebThomson Reuters has released its 2018 UK Islamic Economy Report, which predicts growth from $1.24 trillion in 2016 to $1.93 trillion by 2022. The [63][74][75] The British Bangladeshi community has held a strong point in Islam, often opening large mosques such as East London Mosque and Brick Lane Masjid, as well as opening madrassas and Islamic TV channels. [178][179] Tom Brake, Liberal Democrat, foreign affairs spokesman has said that Saudi Arabia provides funding to hundreds of mosques in the UK, espousing a very hardline Wahhabist interpretation of Islam. [39] David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922, stated: "we are the greatest Mahomedan power in the world and one-fourth of the population of the British Empire is Mahomedan. About 13% of the prison population, or over 11,000 prisoners, are Muslims, disproportionately higher than the general population. This religion is based on the Quran, a religious text that followers of Islam believe is the direct word of God. Islam is the third-largest religious group of British Indian people, after Hinduism and Sikhism. 13 per cent of Muslims had no qualifications, higher than every other religious group. There are also sizable and very long-established communities of Muslim Yemenis in the United Kingdom in among other places Cardiff and the South Shields area near Newcastle. But the average guess from a representative sample of Britons was that 22 per cent of us will be Muslim by 2020one Finally, you may also be interested in Census 2021 data which will be released later this year. For the first time, fewer than half of people in England and Wales described themselves as Christian. It has an estimated 16 million people who adhere to Islam. With a 5.5 million Muslim population, Germany is in second place closely followed by France. [122], In 2015, The Economist stated that were 400,000 Shias in the UK.[120]. The baseline for all three scenarios is the Muslim population in Europe (defined here as the 28 countries presently in the European Union, plus Norway and Switzerland) as of mid-2016, estimated at 25.8 million (4.9% of the overall population) up from 19.5 million (3.8%) in 2010. A poll reported that 59% of Muslims would prefer to live under British law, compared to 28% who would prefer to live under sharia law. the United Kingdom population is equivalent to 0.87% of the total world population. Youve accepted all cookies. The UK population was estimated to be 66 million in 2017, but the latest ONS estimate from 2020 is 67.1 [135], In 2019, four Islamic schools were in the top ten ranking for secondary schools in England, including Tauheedul Islam Girls High School in first place. [128], According to analysis based on the 2011 census, Muslims in the United Kingdom face poor standards of housing, poorer levels of education and are more vulnerable to long-term illness,[129] and that Muslims in the UK had the highest rate of unemployment, the poorest health, the most disability and fewest educational qualifications among religious groups. [244] A 2016 survey of 5,446 adult Britons, part of a report titled Anti-Semitism in contemporary Great Britain conducted by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research found that the prevalence of anti-semitic views among Muslims was two to four times higher than the rest of the population,[245] that 55% of British Muslims held at least one anti-semitic view (compared to 30% of the general population), and that there was a correlation between Muslim religiosity and antisemitism. [132], In 2006, it was found that approximately 53% of British Muslim youth chose to attend university. Turkish Germans and Turkish Dutch) had also immigrated to Britain in accordance with the freedom of movement under EU law. [46] Large numbers of doctors recruited from India and Pakistan, encouraged by health minister Enoch Powell in the early 1960s, also played a key role in the establishment of the National Health Service. London is the place with Koenig, Matthias. A Muslim-majority country is one in which more than 50% of the people are Muslims. [210][211][212] On 18 May 2013, just as the bill to legalise same-sex marriages was being prepared to pass into law, over 400 leading Muslims including head teachers and senior representatives of mosques across the country, published an open letter opposing the bill on the grounds that "Muslim parents will be robbed of their right to raise their children according to their beliefs, as homosexual relationships are taught as something normal to their primary-aged children". WebOpen document format spreadsheet. With a 5.5 million Muslim population, Germany is in second place closely followed by France. Islam is the second largest religion in the United Kingdom, with results from the 2011 Census giving the total population as 2,786,635, or 4.4% of the total UK population, [4] while the 2021 Census results released so far (as of November 2022) show a population of 3,868,133 (6.5%) in England and Wales, 3,801,178 in England and 66,950 in Wales. Minority groups", "White pupils less tolerant, survey shows", "Poll: European Muslims more patriotic than average populace", "79 per cent of Muslims say Christianity should have strong role in Britain", "What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration? We have also pasted below the 80 constituencies where Muslims were 10% or more of the residents. This projection is based on reasonably good data. [79] As of 2013[update], there was a growing number of ethnic Turks from the modern diaspora in Western Europe; for example, Turks with German and Dutch citizenship (i.e. Get emails about this page. It has an estimated 16 million people who adhere to Islam. There is also a fairly large Punjabi community from East Africa found in London. Get emails about this page. [26], In South Asia, specifically, the British ruled over one of the largest Muslim populations in the world. [citation needed] Upon coming into contact with such a population, the British authorities forged a uniquely Muslim identity for the local believers. November 29, 2022 The population of England & Wales stands at 59.60 million; the Muslim population is 3.87 million, or 6.5 % of the total. Under the British Indian Army, a significant number of Muslims fought for the United Kingdom during the First and the Second World Wars (a number of whom were awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest honour). the MCB produces valuable research into the life of British Muslims in 2022. [130], According to a 2013 assessment from the Muslim Council of Britain, it was estimated that there were more than 10,000 Muslim millionaires and 13,400 Muslim-owned businesses in London, creating more than 70,000 jobs and representing just over 33 per cent of Small to Medium Enterprises in London. [150], In the 2017 general election, 15 Muslim MPs (12 Labour and 3 Conservative) were elected, up from 13 Muslim MPs in 2015 general election. [241] Another investigation by another Sikh scholar, Katy Sian of the University of York, also found no truth to the allegations and instead found it was an allegation being pushed by extremist Sikh groups. To provide a summary of the UK population, highlighting the changes and the factors which contribute to this. At ONS, we produce population estimates by religion for England and Wales, not the whole of the UK. This publication builds on previous research and user feedback and was published in response to the need for more timely population estimates by ethnic group and religion. As these are 2011 figures, the number of constituencies in this category will have increased since Muslims, on average, are younger than people who are white British. There were 1,318,755 Muslims reported in the 2021 census in the Greater London area. It is filled instead with sweeping generalisations and poorly substantiated claims around the nature and scale of abuse of Sikh girls and causal factors driving it. During the Middle Ages, there was some general cultural exchange between Christendom and the Islamic world, however, there were no Muslims in the British Isles (a few Crusaders did convert in the East, such as Robert of St. Albans). The UK and worldwide headquarters of the AMC are currently situated on the grounds of 'The Blessed Mosque' (Masjid Mubarak), inaugurated on 17 May 2019 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth caliph of the Ahmadiyya movement,[124] in Tilford, Surrey. Muslims who hailed from Afghan, Turk, Persian, or Arab roots did not find their Muslim identities especially salient. [33][34] A prominent English convert of the 19th century was Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley, who became a Muslim in 1862. [203] However, around 83% of Muslims are proud to be a British citizen, compared to 79% of the general public, 77% of Muslims strongly identify with Britain while only 50% of the wider population do, 86.4% of Muslims feel they belong in Britain, slightly more than the 85.9% of Christians, 82% of Muslims want to live in diverse and mixed neighbourhoods compared to 63% of non-Muslim Britons. 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