{"id":74128,"date":"2009-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2009\/10\/07\/mapping-the-global-muslim-population21\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:48:59","slug":"mapping-the-global-muslim-population21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2009\/10\/07\/mapping-the-global-muslim-population21\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Sources by Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The below list of general sources provides bibliographic information for sources that were used to provide estimates for the Muslim populations of multiple countries. 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London: Led by Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University, 2004, 2006.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/\">Pew Research Center&#8217;s Global Attitudes Project<\/a> 2009 Survey<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/datasets\/\">Pew Research Center&#8217;s Global Attitudes Project<\/a> 2007 Survey<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/datasets\/\">Pew Research Center&#8217;s Global Attitudes Project<\/a> 2002 Survey<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/demographic\/sconcerns\/popchar\/popchar2.htm\">United Nations Demographic Yearbook<\/a>. &#8220;Special Census Topics Volume 2 &#8211; Social characteristics, &#8216;Table 6: Population by religion, sex, urban\/rural residence and percentage: each census, 1985-2004.&#8217; &#8221; New York: United Nations Statistics Division, 2006.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Christian Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition. 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