African Countries with the Most Muslims

Can you guess the 10 countries of Africa which have the greatest number of Muslims?

Percentages based from Pew Research Center and Wikipedia

Total population as of 8 October 2025. More info here.

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# Muslims	Country	%
115 mil	Nigeria	47
110 mil	Egypt	92.4
50.0 mil	Sudan	96
44.7 mil	Algeria	99
42.7 mil	Ethiopia	31.3

# Muslims	Country	%
38.7 mil	Morocco	99
27.7 mil	Niger	98.3
25.0 mil	Tanzania	35.2
24.4 mil	Mali	96.2
18.5 mil	Senegal	97.2

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61 Comments

+16

Level 86

Jul 7, 2018

extra 30 seconds?

Level 47

Jul 7, 2018

Extra 15/30 sec would help touchscreen peeps!

Level 74

Jul 8, 2018

Seconded.

Level 76

Jul 10, 2018

Thirded

Level ∞

Jul 10, 2018

Okay

Level 34

Oct 11, 2018

Fourthed

Level 66

Jan 31, 2023

And yet… this was after QM added more time

Level 51

Feb 1, 2023

Fifthed

Level 46

Oct 11, 2025

Sixthed

Level 46

Oct 11, 2025

Seventhed

Level 76

Jul 9, 2018

Definitely. I got through my first (and only) 8 at a reasonable clip only to find that I had just 15 seconds left...

Level 63

Feb 15, 2023

I ran out of time too, it bugs me.

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Level 80

Jul 23, 2018

Did not realise Ethiopia had that many Muslims.

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Level 82

Aug 19, 2018

As a percentage of the population, the number is quite small. Ethiopia just has a lot of people in general.

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Level 67

Oct 11, 2018

34% is a third of the population, over 35 million people - that's A LOT I would say. I was surprised it was that many.

Level 79

Oct 11, 2018

^ me too. I don't think I met any Muslims there in Addis, Gondar, Lalibela or Axum. They might be in the villages along the borders closer to Sudan and Somalia, maybe. I only met Christians and Rastafarians.

Level 56

Oct 14, 2025

Because those are the Christian Majority regions. You'll have better luck finding a Muslim in the Ogaden or parts of the Oromo Region

Level 75

Jan 31, 2023

They are the majority in the Somali region.

Level 76

Oct 11, 2025

Also a sizable number of the Oromo speakers I believe? The Amhara speakers form the vast majority of the upper and ruling classes, and they are all mostly Christian. That's why Addis feels like a primarily Christian city.

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Level 78

Oct 11, 2018

Kal: You must be joking or interacting with lots of tourists visiting their promised land? Rastafarians number maybe 1 million worldwide and are certainly scarse in Ethiopia (even though Ethiopia is their promised land). There are more in Jamaica :). In any case, chances of you meeting a Muslim are far greater than meeting a Rastafari, granted locations visited will play a part (visiting a holy place for Rastafarians will help). Visiting Harar (Islams 4th holiest place) would have certainly changed your perception. Most of the islamic people live in Eastern parts of Ethiopia, although Addis Ababa also has a large muslim community (incl. many Somali) which you may not have noticed. Interesting reading: https://qz.com/africa/1042140/ethiopia-the-land-of-haile-selassie-is-finally-recognizing-its-rastafarians-by-issuing-them-identity-cards/

Level 79

May 11, 2019

Have you been there or are you pulling stats off the Internet? Because I've been there. And I was interacting with locals almost exclusively. I didn't say there were more Rastafarians in Ethiopia than Muslims. I said I met some in Addis Ababa. And where did I say there were no Muslims in Harar? I listed the cities that I went to. Harar wasn't one of them.

Level 68

Apr 13, 2021

PjotrL, most muslims (including myself) think Damascus is the 4th holiest city of Islam, just so you know.

Level 76

Oct 11, 2025

Actually, there is technically no such thing as the 4th holiest place in Islam. Nowhere in the Qur'an or Hadith is any explicit location mentioned that is 4th holiest after Jerusalem (Al-Quds). So, naturally, many places like to compete for the title. Many also say the Ibrahimi Sanctuary in Hebron (Al-Khalil) is the 4th holiest.

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Level 71

Oct 11, 2018

I was surprised Somalia wasn't on the list.

Level 86

Jan 2, 2021

not that many people in the desert

Level 68

Jan 31, 2023

17 mil is a lot of people + there are plenty of cities in areas of desert. It was just slightly too few.

Level 68

Jan 31, 2023

Like 16 mil if I'm not mistaken.

Level 67

Oct 11, 2018

Mauritania = 100% muslim

Tunisia = 99.9%

Somalia = 98.9

Comoros = 98.3%

I could go on. Please actually look at the source material.

+75

Level 62

Oct 11, 2018

"Name the countries of Africa that have THE GREATEST NUMBER of Muslims", not percentage in population.

+48

Level 72

Oct 12, 2019

Please actually look at the quiz description

Level 81

Oct 11, 2018

Warning - boast post! I did this with 52 seconds remaining - I surprised myself tbh haha. Nice quiz though, thanks

Level 46

Oct 11, 2018

Strangest title of a quiz on here, ever.

+21

Level 91

Oct 11, 2018

How so?

+17

Level 76

Oct 13, 2019

I dont see what is strange about it. Even if I try my hardest to see if there is any way it could be strange (and usually quite good at seeing things from others perspectives). I have no idea what you could have meant. Especially that for you it is the stranges EVER so it must be very very very strange.

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Level 68

Oct 13, 2019

I guess you've never taken my "People From Whose Funerals I've Been Ejected" quiz.

+21

Level 79

Oct 18, 2019

I was disappointed to discover this was not a real quiz.

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Level 68

Jun 28, 2021

Most people don't like quizzes with 500 answers.

Level 64

Oct 11, 2018

I kept typing in Somalia and Tunisia before I realized it was number of, not percentage. Whoops

Level 31

Oct 12, 2018

I think it would make more sense to ask for the biggest percentage of muslims.

Level 72

Jan 15, 2020

If it asked for that then people might think they were supposed to type in countries with the biggest percentage of Muslims. And that would be a different quiz.

Level 68

Oct 12, 2019

almost missed nigeria. dôh

Level 79

Jan 15, 2020

Forgot about Sudan

Level 48

Jan 29, 2020

Tanzania??? I guess I should’ve known based on Dar es salaam

Level 59

Apr 4, 2020

Got Senegal with 4 seconds left :)

Level 49

Dec 7, 2020

wow no somalia and no morocco??

Level 56

Mar 9, 2021

Somalia, "just" 15 million peope. Moroco is there.

Level 67

May 20, 2021

easy!

Level 38

Jun 28, 2021

Not accurate : Mauritania , Somalia , Comoros all have a rate of Muslim people above 90%!!!

Level 65

Jun 28, 2021

This quiz is about the TOTAL population, not the %. The % is just provided as an additional interesting fact :)

Level 67

Jun 28, 2021

jesus christ.

+27

Level 64

Jun 28, 2021

Wrong religion

Level 63

Jun 10, 2022

jerusalem?

Level 57

Dec 9, 2022

I got many by just calculating the population :/

Level 34

Jan 31, 2023

Senegal's population is 16 million. How could it have 17 Million Muslims?

Level 74

Jan 31, 2023

The source for population is given in the quiz description.

Level 79

Feb 1, 2023

1:24

Level 63

Feb 15, 2023

9/10 didn't have time to type Ethiopia. Unkind time limit.

Level 65

Nov 16, 2023

I think Somalia should be on here now because the population has a rate of about 99.99 percent Muslim, and has about 18 million people, which is more than Senegal's 17.5 million people and 97 percent Muslim rate.

Level 75

Oct 11, 2025

I agree.

Level 45

May 14, 2024

Crazy how Senegal only has around 17-18 million people which means almost all of them are muslim

Level 63

Jul 11, 2025

theres percentages on the quiz