Overall support for prohibiting Christian Migration is 13.1%, Sikh migration is 11.8% and Jewish migration is 12%. Buckland, Dictionary of Indian Biography, Haskell House Publishers Ltd, 1968, p.217, Khizar Humayun Ansari, 'Ali, Abdullah Yusuf (18721953)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oct 2012; online edn, Jan 2013. [136] Some Islamic schools have been accused of promoting extremist versions of Islam. Some 26.5% agree that there are certain areas of the UK that operate under Sharia law and that non-Muslims are prohibited from entering. They found that only 1% of speaking characters were Muslim whereas 25% of the worlds population is Muslim. Although not a convert himself, the Victorian Age adventurer, Sir Richard Francis Burton visited Mecca in disguise, documented in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. As per the UK Census of 2011, Total Indian Population in the United Kingdom is 1,451,862 (14.51 Lakhs). The UK population was estimated to be 66 million in 2017, but the latest ONS estimate from 2020 is 67.1 [182] Roy has also argued that the burkini bans and secularist policies of France provoked religious violence in France, to which Kepel responded that Britain has no such policies and still suffered several jihadist attacks in 2017 while there were no major attacks in France. [115], An August 2017 survey by the Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation found that among British Muslims, 75% were Sunni and 8% were Shia. Published. Muslims in UK. [242][243], According to British Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan, "anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace". Webe. Altogether it therefore seems likely that there are about 4 million Muslims in the UK in total. The Office for National Statistics data shows that there were 3.9 million people who described themselves as Muslim in 2021, which equates to 6.5% of the population of England and Wales. The Muslim population has grown from 4.9 percent to 6.5 percent in England and Wales. 14% of British Muslims said they did not know or refused to answer the survey. It is based on the Office For National Statistics (ONS) census, published on Tuesday, November 29. Some 26.5% agree that there are certain areas of the UK that operate under Sharia law and that non-Muslims are prohibited from entering. the MCB produces valuable research into the life of British Muslims in 2022. Webe. [1] Converts to the religion outside of courtly life, the majority of the Muslim population in the Subcontinent, too were more focused on their regional and lingual cultural identities-whether that be Bengali, Punjabi, Sindhi, or Gujarati. The Office for National Statistics data shows that there were 3.9 million people who described themselves as Muslim in 2021, which equates to 6.5% of the population of England and Wales. In August 2014 she resigned over the government's approach to the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. [219][220][221] However, Met Police figures showed an 8.5 per cent fall in anti-Muslim crimes between 2009 and 2012, with a spike in 2013 due to the murder of Lee Rigby. [40][41] The first mosque in London was the Fazl Mosque, established in 1924, commonly called the London mosque. Estimates for their number range between 30 and 85. Latest prison population figures for 2022. [209] Such polls suggest that British Muslims have strongly conservative views on issues relating to extra-marital and/or homosexual sexual acts compared with their European Muslim counterparts who are markedly more liberal. In December 2021, we published Population estimates by ethnic group and religion, England and Wales: 2019. The population density in the United Kingdom is 281 per Km 2 (727 Published. It has an estimated 16 million people who adhere to Islam. [92] Notable Turkish mosques outside London include Selimiye Mosque in Manchester, Hamidiye Mosque in Leicester, and Osmaniye Mosque in Stoke-on-Trent.[93]. Globally, the Muslim population is forecast to grow at about twice the rate of the non [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. [106], The United Kingdom, with 43,532 Somalia-born residents in 2001,[107] and an estimated 101,000 in 2008,[108] is home to the largest Somali community in Europe. From: Ministry of Justice. The international Muslim population is exploding; Muslims are, in fact, the worlds fastest growing religious group. Unfortunately, your request for information on the population of Shia Muslims is not held. [222], The emergence of the English Defence League resulted in demonstrations in English cities with large Muslim populations. 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. [182], Some preachers in London's mosques look for Muslim boys who lack clear direction, and set them on the path to radicalisation and terror. For the first time, fewer than half of people in England and Wales described themselves as Christian. Notable examples include Mehdi Hasan, the political editor of the UK version of The Huffington Post[169] and the presenter of Al Jazeera English shows The Caf and Head to Head,[170] Mishal Husain, a British news presenter for the BBC, currently appearing on BBC World News and BBC Weekend News, Rageh Omaar, special correspondent with ITV and formerly Senior Foreign Correspondent with the BBC and a reporter/presenter for Al Jazeera English,[171] and Faisal Islam, economics editor and correspondent for Channel 4 News. The Muslim population has grown from 4.9 percent to 6.5 percent in England and Wales. London has the greatest population of Muslims in the country. There were 1.6 million Muslims in England and Wales in 2001, or 3 per cent of the population, according to the census. London is the place with People born in India are the UKs largest foreign-born population, totaling an estimated 734,000 in 2013. The top 20 local authorities in England and Wales with the highest percentage of Muslims in 2021[59][60] were: Several large cities have one area that is a majority Muslim even if the rest of the city has a fairly small Muslim population. [22] Winston Churchill also stated in 1942: "We must not on any account break with the Moslems, who represent a hundred million people, and the main army elements on which we must rely for the immediate fighting."[38]. [56], According to recent projections the Muslim population in the UK in the year 2050 is likely to number around 13 million.[58]. We said. About 13% of the prison population, or over 11,000 prisoners, are Muslims, disproportionately higher than the general population. "[161], In March 2014, The Law Society issued guidance on how to draft sharia-compliant wills for the network of sharia courts which been established to deal with disputes between Muslim families. And across the 200 TV series, only 12 series regulars were Muslim, the study found. They received fines and a curfew. Griffin, T., Aked, H., Miller, D., & Marusek, S. (2015). This is up from 2.7 million Muslims residing in England and Wales in 2011, which equated to 4.9% of the population. [77] A report published by the Home Affairs Committee in 2011 claimed that there was 500,000 British Turks,[77] made up of approximately 150,000 Turkish nationals, 300,000 Turkish Cypriots, and the remainder from other countries. As per the report, there are 13,724 Muslims residing in England and Wales. One of the most famous early Asian immigrants to England was the Bengali Muslim entrepreneur Sake Dean Mahomet, a captain of the East India Company who in 1810 founded London's first Indian restaurant, the Hindoostanee Coffee House.[30]. Furthermore, 55% of Britons believe there is a fundamental clash between Islam and the values of British society, according to a YouGov poll. the United Kingdom population is equivalent to 0.87% of the total world population. [175], In June 2017, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, said that difficult conversations are needed, starting with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states that have funded and fuelled extremist ideology. Thank you for your enquiry about how many Muslims there are in the UK. Gujarati Muslims from the Surat and Bharuch districts started to arrive from the 1940s when India was under British colonial rule, settling in the towns of Dewsbury and Batley in Yorkshire and in parts of Lancashire. Published. WebOpen document format spreadsheet. There were 1,318,755 Muslims reported in the 2021 census in the Greater London area. With a 5.5 million Muslim population, Germany is in second place closely followed by France. We have also pasted below the 80 constituencies where Muslims were 10% or more of the residents. [125], There has also been discrimination by orthodox Sunni Muslims against Ahmadi Muslims. The population density in the United Kingdom is 281 per Km 2 (727 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. WebWhilst it is theoretically possible for a population of 4 million to create an army capable of taking over a country, the number of radical muslims who would form such an army are pretty small (thank goodness) and those that have shown such a tendency are pretty well monitored by MI5 and suspicious activities of the others would almost certainly [25] He wrote of his experiences and travels in his Persian book, Shigurf-nama-i-Wilayat (or 'Wonder Book of Europe'). [109] The first Somali immigrants were seamen and traders who arrived in small numbers in port cities in the late 19th century, although most Somalis in the UK are recent arrivals. We said. The panel was not aware of any sharia councils operating in Scotland. London is the place with [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. 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. [citation needed] 65% of white Muslims described themselves as "other white", and would likely have originated from locations such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Adygea, Chechnya, Albania, Turkey, Bulgaria, the region of East Macedonia and Thrace in Northern Greece, and North Macedonia. The census, which was held on March 21 2021, shows that the Muslim population in England and Wales has increased by 44% in [citation needed], Such classifications done by British historians throughout their long period of rule paved the way for a more cohesive Muslim identity. 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. [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. For example, in February 2008 Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury (the head of the Church of England) lectured at the Royal Courts of Justice on Islam and English law. Children playing football have been seen falling to their knees as if in prayer after scoring a goal, a common practice of Muslim footballers. "The cost of not being Christian: Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims in Britain and Canada. [114] Abdullah Quilliam was a 19th-century Englishman who converted to Islam and built what is argued to be the first mosque in the country in Liverpool. 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. 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. Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) info@nisra.gov.uk can be contacted for Northern Ireland data and National Records of Scotland (NRS) foi@nrscotland.gov.uk can be contacted for Scottish data. The Muslim population in England and Wales has increased significantly in recent years. The majority of mosques founded after World War II in Britain are reflective of the major strands of Sunni Islam predominating in the Indian subcontinent; namely Deobandi and Barelvi (the latter of which is more Sufi-orientated). People born in India are the UKs largest foreign-born population, totaling an estimated 734,000 in 2013. Several months later, Lord Phillips, then Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales supported the idea that sharia could be reasonably employed as a basis for "mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution", and explained that "It is not very radical to advocate embracing sharia law in the context of family disputes, for example, and our system already goes a long way towards accommodating the archbishop's suggestion. However, it is not possible to distinguish an estimate for the Shia Muslim population from these write-in responses, since we cannot tell how many Shia Muslim respondents would have chosen to simply tick the Musim tick-box response. (3) How many of the Muslims are Shia Muslims, i.e., Muslims who are from the "twelvers section" or - as they are known - Shia Itha-Asheri Muslims. 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 November2022[update]) show a population of 3,868,133 (6.5%) in England and Wales, 3,801,178 in England and 66,950 in Wales. Get emails about this page. Naval cooks also came, many of them from the Sylhet district of British Bengal (now in Bangladesh). [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. We said. The UK population was estimated to be 66 million in 2017, but the latest ONS estimate from 2020 is 67.1 In 2010 the affiliation of the mosques was: 44.6% Deobandi, 28.2% Barelvi and other Sufi, 5.8% Salafi, 2.8% Maudoodi-inspired; of the remainder many were part of other Sunni traditions or unaffiliated, while 4.2% were Shi'a (4%). In addition to this there are Twelver Shia Mosques. Some 26.5% agree that there are certain areas of the UK that operate under Sharia law and that non-Muslims are prohibited from entering. 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. 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). Mughal courts divided not into Hindu or Muslim factions but Persian and Turkish ones. "> International Advocacy. France has an estimated 5.7 million French Muslims, the largest Muslim population in western Europe. 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. 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When accessing any of our files,please read the 'notes, terms and conditions' contained within them. 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. [80], Turkish Cypriots first began to migrate to the United Kingdom in 1917. But the percentage rise in Muslim prisoner numbers has been far greater than the Muslim population increase: Muslim inmates now account for 14.4% of those behind bars, compared with 7.7 % in 2002. The report shows that there has been a remarkable increase in number of criminal activities by Muslims in the UK. By 1911, the British Empire had a Muslim population of 94 million, larger than the empire's 58 million Christian population. [119], In 2015, The Economist stated that were 2.3 million Sunnis in the UK. ", This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 05:19. 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". The international Muslim population is exploding; Muslims are, in fact, the worlds fastest growing religious group. 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. [13] Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United Kingdom and its adherents have the lowest average age out of all the major religious groups. Webthe United Kingdom 2020 population is estimated at 67,886,011 people at mid year according to UN data. "Ethnic and Racial Studies, Lewis, Valerie A., and Ridhi Kashyap. TheReligion (detailed)[QS210EW] table has a detailed breakdown of the population of England and Wales (not the whole of the UK) as at census day, 27 March 2011, by 59 religious groupings (or classifications). From: Office for National Statistics Published 25 February 2022. Nigerian Muslims in the UK are represented by several community organizations including the Nigeria Muslim Forum. Whilst Muslim is a tick box response in the religion question on the census questionnaire, we do not ask for more detailed information beyond that response. As the overall England and Wales population grows by 3.52 million in the decade 2011-2021, so do Muslim communities by 1.16 million contributing to 33% of the increase. The 2011 census recorded 2.7 million Muslims, which then constituted 4.8 per cent of the overall population. [239] However, in 2019 this report was criticised by researchers and an official UK government report lead by two Sikh academics for false and misleading information. 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