Muslim ASEAN

According to a recent Pew Forum survey,  "Indonesia is the country with the world's largest Muslim population (203 million); about 13% of all Muslims in the world live in Indonesia. Indonesia's Muslim population accounts for about 80% of all Muslims living in Southeast-East Asia."

Some facts that might surprise you:

• Malaysia has fewer Muslims than China.
  
• Myanmar has more Muslims than Qatar and Bahrain put together.
• Thailand has more Muslims than Oman and the UAE put together.
  
• Philippines has more Muslims than Kuwait.

The Muslim populations of the countries of ASEAN, ordered from most to least, are: 203 million in Indonesia, 16.6 million in Malaysia, 4.7  million in the Philippines, 4 million in Thailand, 1.9 million in Burma, 0.7 million in Singapore, 0.3 million in Brunei, 0.2 million in Cambodia and slightly fewer in Vietnam.

Adding up these numbers, we see that nearly 15% of the world's 1.8 billion Muslims live in ASEAN countries.   Just over 40% of ASEAN's population of 560 million is Muslim.