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Maps, charts and statistics of Bangladesh ethnic people groups, languages and religions. Sortable and downloadable Bangladesh data.
The Constitution of Bangladesh declares Islam as the state religion. Bangladesh is the fourth-largest Muslim-populated country. Muslims are the predominant community of the country and they form the majority of the population in all eight divisions of Bangladesh.
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.
25 kwi 2017 · Islam is the dominant religion in Bangladesh, and its adherents constitute 83.4% of the total population. The introduction of Islam in the Bengal region dates to as early as the 13th Century. Arab and Persian missionaries and merchants were responsible for the conversions to Islam.
16 gru 2017 · Analysing data from 2400 households across 12 districts in Bangladesh, the authors claim that neither religion nor gender had any significant impact on happiness. Instead they found that the influence of inter-personal relations and social trust on happiness was statistically significant.
For example, in the Ghoraghat area of Dinajpur District in northern Bangladesh, Catholic members of the indigenous Santal ethnic group have struggled during the reporting period - aided by the Catholic Church and NGOs such as Caritas - to recover ancestral farmlands they lost to Muslim landowners.
This study investigates the present condition of religious co-existence in Bangladesh, a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic yet Muslim majority country in South Asia, on the basis of a sample survey conducted in Satkhira, a southern district of Bangladesh.
