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Islam is the largest and the state religion of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. [1][2] According to the 2022 census, Bangladesh had a population of about 150 million Muslims, or 91.04% [3] of its total population of 165 million. [4] Muslims of Bangladesh are predominant native Bengali Muslims.
Bengali Muslims constitute the world's second-largest Muslim ethnicity (after the Arab world) and the largest Muslim community in South Asia. [108] An estimated 152 million Bengali Muslims live in Bangladesh as of 2021, where Islam is the state religion and commands the demographic majority. [ 109 ]
15 godz. temu · The repression of Muslim identity in Bangladesh since 1971 has been a significant factor in the rise of conservative religiosity among the population. The initial imposition of secularism by the ...
Muslims are the predominant community of the country and they form the majority of the population in all eight divisions of Bangladesh. The overwhelming majority of Bangladeshi Muslims are Bengali Muslims at 88 percent, but a small segment about 2 percent of them are Bihari Muslims and Rohingyas.
29 paź 2021 · Bangladesh’s Hindus are now a beleaguered minority, increasingly facing discrimination and even violence in everyday life. Bangladesh’s Muslim majority has long had a divided identity.
14 paź 2019 · A miserable life. According to local NGOs working for Bihari welfare, around 400,000 members of the community live in camps in Bangladesh. Recent data released by the government of Bangladesh...
The remainder of the population is predominantly Christian, with approximately 400,000 Roman Catholics, and approximately one million Theravada-Hinayana Buddhists. The country also has small numbers of Shia Muslims, Ahmadi Muslims, Baha’is, animists, ISKCON members, agnostics, and atheists.
