india has a remarkably diverse range of religions.  Numerous religions are practiced, including Sikhism, Buddhism, islam, Christianity, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, and Hinduism.
 
Every community's festivals, customs, and daily routines reflect these faiths. With 311 million Muslims, india is expected to surpass indonesia as the country with the highest Muslim population in the world by 2050, according to the Pew Research Center. Nearly every indian state has a Muslim community, while the number of Muslims varies by state. In this article, we explicitly examine how Muslims are distributed across a number of indian states.

The nation's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, is home to a sizable Muslim community.  In Uttar Pradesh, there were roughly 200 million people living there as per the 2011 Census, of whom about 38.4 million were Muslims or 19.26% of the total population.  As a result, Uttar Pradesh is the indian state with the largest Muslim population.

Muslim population in India: 97 out of 100 people follow islam in this indian region, but islam Is hardly practiced in this place; it is...
Nearly all of the people in the Union Territory of india are Muslims.  The location is Lakshadweep.  In this area, approximately 97 out of 100 persons are Muslims.  Nonetheless, the 2011 Census found that there were 64,473 people living in Lakshadweep, despite the city's extremely modest overall population.  96.58% of the population, or 62,268 individuals, were Muslims.
 
After Lakshadweep, the Union Territory of kashmir - SRINAGAR/JAMMU' target='_blank' title='jammu and kashmir-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>jammu and kashmir is the next area having a sizable Muslim population. About 12.5 million people lived there as per the 2011 Census, when kashmir - SRINAGAR/JAMMU' target='_blank' title='jammu and kashmir-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>jammu and kashmir was still a state. per them, 85.67 lakh were Muslims, making up roughly 68.31% of the overall population.  The indian government reorganized kashmir - SRINAGAR/JAMMU' target='_blank' title='jammu and kashmir-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>jammu and kashmir in 2019, dividing it into two Union Territories and making Ladakh a distinct legal entity.

With 34.22 percent of the total population, assam is third in terms of the percentage of Muslims, followed by West bengal (27.01) and kerala (26.56).  The remaining states with more than 10 percent of Muslims are Uttar Pradesh (19.26), bihar (16.87), jharkhand (14.53), uttarakhand (13.95), karnataka (12.92), delhi (12.86), and maharashtra (11.54).  Muslims make up fewer than 10% of the population in every other state.

The two states with the lowest percentages of Muslims are sikkim (1.62%), where Muslims comprise 1.62% of the population, and Mizoram (1.35%).  With just 1.93% of its citizens practicing islam, punjab has the lowest percentage of Muslims among the bigger states.
 
States with a Muslim population below 10 percent include gujarat (9.67%), andhra pradesh (9.56%), rajasthan (9.07%), Tripura (8.60%), andaman and nicobar islands (8.52%), Manipur (8.40%), goa (8.33%), daman and diu (7.92%), haryana (7.03%), madhya pradesh (6.57%), puducherry (6.05%), and tamil Nadu (5.86%).

At 4.87%, chandigarh tops the list of states with fewer than 5% of the population being Muslim, followed by meghalaya (4.40%), Dadra, and nagar Haveli (3.67%).  Nagaland (2.47%)  Arunachal Pradesh (1.95%), himachal pradesh (2.18%), odisha (2.17%), and chhattisgarh (2.02%).

 
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17/06/2025 05:00 AM