Muslim Population by Country

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Muslim Population by Country

Given frightening growth of Muslim population worldwide, let’s take a look at Muslim population by country, with special focus on countries with highest and lowest population of Muslims in the world.

List of Countries with Muslim Population of 100%

In these countries, everyone is a Muslim and I’m guessing that unless you embrace Islam, you are not welcomed:

  • Libya
  • Maldives
  • Mauritania
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Somalia
  • Western Sahara

List of Countries with Muslim Population of 99%

These are the countries where basically whole population are Muslims, but some weirdoes of unknown origin are spoiling their numbers. Only 1% or less of total population are Muslims:

  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria
  • Gaza Strip
  • Iran
  • Turkey
  • Yemen

List of Other Countries with Muslim Population of More than 90%

List of other countries with super high Muslim population, even though they have more than 1% of non Muslim people there.

  • Azerbaijan
  • Comoros
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Gambia
  • Iraq
  • Jordan
  • Mayotte
  • Morocco
  • Pakistan
  • Senegal
  • Tajikistan
  • Tunisia
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Senegal

…and to offset it:

List of Other Countries with No Muslim Population (0%)

These are the countries that are free from Muslims:

  • Angola
  • Antigua Barbuda
  • The Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Cape Verde
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • Greenland
  • Granada
  • Guam
  • Guatemala
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Iceland
  • Jamaica
  • North Korea
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Puerto Rico
  • Taiwan
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

Looks like countries in Central America and the Caribbean do the best job keeping themselves free from Muslims. Iceland and Greenland are also on top of it, though I was surprised to find out that Slovakia, one of the nicest countries in the world has 0.2% Muslim population. I guess that’s what they get for being in Europe. Muslim population in Indonesia, a country with largest Muslim population in the world is at 86.1%.

These Muslim population by country statistics have been collected from the CIA World Factbook and are based on each country’s respective census. Some may be outdated or inaccurate due to deliberate provision of twisted facts. For more information, go to:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html

Muslim population circular graph image by the University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences

 

Google is Watching You

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Google is Watching You

Google is watching you in more ways than one. It is no secret that Google is the biggest repository of people’s online behaviors. If you have used Google but once on your computer, a cookie has been nested in it that tracks everything you do on line and every track of it is stored in Google databases. It gets far worse if you use Google toolbar and further worsens if you agreed for Google History to store your own data for yourself to see. But Google is watching you in more ways than by just tracking your activities on line.

As satellite technology improves, Google Maps views of our planes from space get more detailed. Then you have Google Street View with pictures taken by cameras mounted on cars and trikes riding the streets of popular cities. Google claims that it respects people’s privacy and their software automatically blurs people’s faces and license plate numbers. While the idea of being able to see what streets you may wish to visit look like, there is also an idea of one of those Google tricycles may capture your precious ass in an awkward moment and pictures of it will be all over Google. Imagine you get captured walking with toilet paper stuck to your shoe or vomiting after a good night out. Blurring my face my ass. Google is watching you and while there is a lot of convenience to being able to look up stuff, the inconvenience of being stripped of any and all privacy negates the purpose.

Oh, that cookie that Google embeds in your computer never quits and if you increase your computer’s security settings so it rejects cookies, all Google services quit functioning. You will get an error message appealing on your to enable cookies or else Google won’t provide any of their services. They want something in return for their “services”. They want to know everything about you. And given that Google are good buddies with CIA, this whole “Google is Watching You” phenomenon should make everyone feel uneasy. And rightly so.