That figure is expected to rise to 6.2 million (1.7 percent) in 2030, predicted the Pew Research . [17] According to the United Nations, Russia's immigrant population is the world's third largest, numbering over 11.6 million; most of whom are from other post-Soviet states. There are over 5,000 registered Muslim communities in Russia. 3 Historical Muslim population 4 See also 5 References By region [ edit] World [ edit] The six fastest-growing religions in the world are estimated to be Islam (1.84%), the Bah Faith (1.70%), Sikhism (1.62%), Jainism (1.57%), Hinduism (1.52%), and Christianity (1.38%), with high birth rates being cited as the major reason. The Muslim Spiritual Authority is in the Caucasus, which acts as the coordination centre of Muslims in the North Caucasus. [107] It spent roughly 4.7% of its GDP on education in 2018. [56] Russia has one of the world's most female-biased sex ratios, with 0.859 males to every female,[12] due to its high male mortality rate. The growth rate for the Muslim population in Russia is projected to be 0.6% annually over the next two decades. Last week, Russia sentenced five Crimean Tatars to 13 years, and one Crimean Tatar . The number of Muslim houses of worship in the U.S. also has increased over the last 20 years. Putin has called for tolerance and stated that Islam is a peaceful religion but at same time he has characterized the war in Chechnya as battle between Christians and Muslims and has said, If you are a Christian you are in danger.. 38", " :: ", "The Demographic Yearbook of Russia 2019", https://www.gks.ru/storage/mediabank/Popul2020.xls, "Russia trying to resolve demographic problem through immigration", "Immigration Drives Russian Population Increase", "The Caucasus Concerned over Born-Again Russians", "Uzbekistan: Minorities Taking Advantage of New Russian Citizenship Rules", " NEWSru.com:: : 3 , 4 "" ", "Russia reports surge in undocumented migration from Asia", "Illegal immigrants can be barred from Russia for 510 years", "The Backlash Against Immigration in Russia", "Some 500 illegal immigrants from Vietnam arrested in Moscow", "Fleeing Putin, Thousands of Educated Russians Are Moving Abroad", "Russia faces brain drain as thousands flee abroad", "Russia's Brain Drain Becomes a Stampede for the Exits", "Russia's war migrants find mixed reception in Georgia", "Who are the Russians leaving their country? The Muslim population, which stood at 3.9 million or 6.5 percent of the population, up from 4.9 percent before, Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Tuesday. Now, up to 20 percent of the population may be Muslim," he said. In the 2021 census, roughly 71.7% of the population were ethnic Russians, and the remaining 16.7% of the population were ethnic minorities with 11.6% not stating an ethnicity. In 2021, while economies were on the road to recovery, the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, which began in the first quarter of 2022, put the world economy in jeopardy once again. [88] However, various experts have claimed Russia's linguistic diversity is rapidly declining.[89][90]. Many Muslims also reside in Ul'yanovsk, Samara, Nizhniy Novgorod, Moscow, Perm', and Leningrad oblasts. Russia Will Be One-Third Muslim in 15 Years, Chief Mufti Predicts March 5, 2019 Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of the Council of Muftis Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency Around 30 percent of the. Some Muslim ethnic groups have been among the most resistant minorities to becoming part of unfied Russia. Elghobashy made history when she became the first hijabi athlete to . Islam in the Soviet era was fairly secularized. 355384. Mosques and madrassas (Muslim schools) were closed down, turned into museums or run by puppet imams and muftis. Russian data includes occupied Crimea and Sevastopol starting in 2014, Ethnic groups in Russia of more than 1 million people in 2010, Percentage of ethnic Russians by region in 2010. km of land area)", Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, "Migrants Welcome: Is Russia Trying To Solve Its Demographic Crisis By Attracting Foreigners? However, like Orthodoxy, Islam was suppressed during the Soviet Union, and many mosques were closed down during this time. According to the United Nations, Russia's immigrant population is the third-largest in the world, numbering over 11.6 million in 2016;[18] most of which are from post-Soviet states, mainly Ukrainians. [29] Muslim Cossacks in Siberia requested an Imam. Growth factors: Now 25 million people strong, Gaynetdin attributed the growth in Muslim population two main factors: the high birth rate among Muslim families, and throughthe arrival of people from Central Asia. Within each state, excluding, say, 3 or 5 richest districts, rest should get them in proportion to their population. 2: Inter-Regional and Inter-Ethnic Relations, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, pp. . ", "Fact Check: No record of Putin's speech on Muslims", "Russian President Vladimir Putin Says No to Sharia-Fiction! Chechens are accused of following Wahhabism. For the first time since the 7th century AD, England is no longer majority-Christian. 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Hall & Company, Boston); New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times of London, Lonely Planet Guides, Library of Congress, U.S. government, Comptons Encyclopedia, The Guardian, National Geographic, Smithsonian magazine, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Reuters, AP, AFP, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, Foreign Policy, Wikipedia, BBC, CNN, and various books, websites and other publications. Russian Shias are mainly Azeris and Tajiks from Pamir and they are small in number. A census in 2002 counted 14.5 million while Russian Muslim leaders claim there are 23 million. Encouraged by the Russian strategy of using the traditional Islamic structures and leaders against the Islamic extremists, there was a process of religious radicalisation in Chechnya and other Northern Caucasus regions. The number of Muslims allowed to make pilgrimages to Mecca increased sharply after the embargo of the Soviet era ended in 1991. MOSCOW (AA): Muslims will make up 30 percent of Russia's population by 2034, the country's grand mufti said Monday. Afterward, the Ottoman Empire offered to harbor the Circassians who did not wish to accept the rule of a Christian monarch, and many emigrated to Anatolia (the heart of the Ottoman Empire) and ended up in modern Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, and Kosovo. There are believed to be around 20 million Muslims in Russia. [82], Russia is a multilingual nation; approximately 100150 minority languages are spoken across the country. [77], For centuries, the Tatars constituted the only Muslim ethnic group in European Russia, with Tatar language being the only language used in their mosques, a situation which saw rapid change over the course of the 20th century as a large number of Caucasian and Central Asian Muslims migrated to central Russian cities and began attending Tatar-speaking mosques, generating pressure on the imams of such mosques to begin using Russian. An Odesa-based migrant told Crisis Group, however, that the community in that city alone was 1,000-families strong. The number of people following Islam in England and Wales rose 44%, from 2.7 million in 2011 to 3.9 million in 2021. [64], In 1991, Chechnya declared independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Harassment and attacks of people from the Caucasus increased after terrorist attacks involving Chechens. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islam experienced revival in southern Russia and the Northern Caucasus. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. They incite the crowd. Among the top 500 volleyball players in the world, she is training to help Egypt's beach volleyball team qualify for a second time in the 2024 Olympics, with new teammate Farida El Askalany. [16], The Tatars of the Crimean Khanate, the last remaining successor to the Golden Horde, continued to raid Southern Russia and burnt down parts of Moscow in 1571. In 1980 Tazhuddin was made Mufti of the European USSR and Siberia Division. Patterns of violent crime in Russia. [43] Bashkirs had the military statute of 1874 applied to them. Later that year, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan withdrew recognition from the muftiate for European Russia and Siberia and created their own muftiate. Thus in UP, while the Muslim population is about 18%, the UP police has only about 2% Muslims. Many Jordanian Muslims practice Sufism.. The changing demographics mean that dozens of new mosques will need to be built in Russias largest cities, Gainutdin said at a forum hosted by the State Duma on Monday. Among them are two magazines in Russian, Ekho Kavkaza and Islamskiy vestnik , and the Russian-language newspaper Islamskiye novosti , which is published in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Their follow-up study in 2011 found that the number of mosques had grown to 2,106, and the 2020 version found 2,769 mosques . When guests from the Middle East visit Russia, they say ties within the Russian Ummah were exemplary, the Mufti explained. (922). [35][36], There are an estimated four million undocumented immigrants from the ex-Soviet states in Russia. Federal regions also have their own departments of health that oversee local administration. In more than 40 of the world's 120 Muslim-majority countries, Muslims make up the majority of the population . In 2001, the mainstream Islamic Refakh movement announced it was going to form a new party: the Prosperity Party. Speaking at a conference in Moscow, Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin said the number of Muslims in Russia has been growing with every passing day. The Russo-Circassian War ended with the signing of loyalty oaths by Circassian leaders on 2 June [O.S. Chechen and Azerbaijani street traders have had their goods and money seized and their kiosks bulldozed by Russian authorities. In a poll released in July 2005 by the Pew Research Group, 84 percent of those surveyed said that they were concerned about the rise of Muslim extremism in their country and 72 percent said that they felt that Muslim immigrants wish to remain distinct from their society. [53][54][55][56], A chain e-mail spread a hoax speech attributed to Putin which called for tough assimilation policies on immigrants, no evidence of any such speech can be found in Russian media or Duma archives. [67], At the end of the Second Chechen War, in 2005, Chechen rebel leader, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, decreed the formation of a Caucasus Front against Russia, among Islamic believers in the North Caucasus, in an attempt to widen Chechnya's conflict with Russia. In 1900 the Muslim population was 200 million, today they're about 2 billion, so in over a century they increased their population tenfold. Such material is made available in an effort to advance understanding of country or topic discussed in the article. Russias Muslim-majority regions, including republics in the North Caucasus and the republic of Tatarstan, are known to have the highest birth rates in the country, similar trends worldwide. The struggle to delineate the respective powers of the federal and local governments in Russia also has influenced Russian relations with the Islamic community. Mishar Muslims, Teptiar Muslims, service Tatar Muslims, and Bashkir Muslims joined the Orenburg Cossack Host. [74], A record 18,000 Russian Muslim pilgrims from all over the country attended the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2006. In Moscow, there is the Council of Muftis of Russia. The post-Communist union formed a political party, the Nur All-Russia Muslim Public Movement, which acts in close coordination with Muslim imams to defend the political, economic, and cultural rights of Muslims. There are a handful of Muslims that are ethnic Russians and Ukrainians and Belorussians, mostly young and educated. [4] This compares with a world population growth rate of 1.12% per year [5], and according to the World Christian Encyclopaedia, between 1990 and 2000, Islam received around 865,558 converts . [17] In 2010, four-fifths of Russia's population was of European descentof which the vast majority were Slavs,[69] with a substantial minority of Finnic and Germanic peoples. Text Sources: Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Russia and Eurasia, China, edited by Paul Friedrich and Norma Diamond (C.K. The Islamic Cultural Center of Russia, which includes a madrassa (religious school), opened in Moscow in 1991. In his 1985 analysis Mystics and Commissars, S. Enders Wimbush wrote: Members of Sufi brotherhoods were hunted as criminalsThey were accused of immutable hostility towards the Soviet regime or economic sabotage, banditsim, terrorism, and armed rebellion.. Immigrants and migrant workers from Central Asia, which experts estimate at six to seven million, are mostly Muslim. However, the Chechen government's grip on Chechnya was weak, especially outside the ruined capital Grozny. [51], Russia, by constitution, guarantees free, universal health care for all Russian citizens, through a compulsory state health insurance program. Between 1993 and 2008, Russia 's population saw a considerable decline in its population from 148.37 million to 143.25. [85][86] According to the Russian Census of 2002, 142.6million across the country spoke Russian, 5.3million spoke Tatar, and 1.8million spoke Ukrainian. ", "Total Fertility Rate around the world over the last centuries", ". . . The KGB watched over Islamic organizations. [84] The city's economy "could not manage without them," he said. The next most common responses were Hindu (1 million) and . Sat, 6 Aug 2005. updated Tue, 23 Dec 2008. Muslims will make up 30 percent of Russia's population by 2034, the country's grand mufti said Monday. [64] Smoking is another health issue in the country. [69] Putin is believed to have backed protests by Muslims in Russia against Charlie Hebdo cartoons and the West.[70]. The Top 10 Countries with the Largest Muslim Populations in the World in 2021 Maldives (100%) Mauritania (99.9%) Somalia (99.8% - tie) Tunisia (99.8% - tie) Although Islam is a minority religion in Russia, Russia has the largest Muslim population in Europe. (XIX . [41] Kalmyks and Bashkirs served in the Russian army in France. He said the number of Muslims was also mentioned in the population census. Regarded as criminals and often referred to as "blacks" or chernozhopy (black asses), they include people from Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and other regions in the Caucasus Mountains. Moscow has the largest Muslim population in Europe, with estimates suggesting . Ahmad Adil | 07.05.2021 NEW DELHI Dismissing propaganda launched by Hindu nationalists against the growing Muslim populace in India, former top bureaucrat and author Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi said Hindus will always remain in the majority in the country. BY FOYASAL KHAN JAN 06, 2023 - DAILY SABAH This illustration shows the main events, especially in politics, sports and climate change, in the Muslim [5], Recognized under the law and by Russian political leaders as one of Russia's traditional religions, Islam is a part of Russian historical heritage, and is subsidized by the Russian government. Only a handful of Muslim were allowed to make the haj. The Hindu population growth rate is expected to fall even further. In Dagestan there are number of Islamic universities and madrassas, notable among them are: Dagestan Islamic University, Institute of Theology and International Relations, whose rector Maksud Sadikov was assassinated on 8 June 2011.[52]. Thus, combatting Islamophobia is sacrosanct. 18111913 . Russia will continue to have the largest Muslim population (in absolute numbers) in Europe in 2030. 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In the Soviet-era, one Tatar told National Geographic, "I only heard the Koran read at funerals. Communist rule oppressed and suppressed Islam, like other religions in the Soviet Union.[when?] We are concerned about the safety of members of all religious communities in Ukraine, particularly the safety of those living in areas under Russia's control or occupation, including members of the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Crimean Tatar Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Evangelicals, and Baptists. Gavrilova, N.S., Gavrilov, L.A., Semyonova, V.G., Evdokushkina, G.N., Ivanova, A.E. [26] Cossack rank was awarded to Bashkirs. Europe has lost almost 60% of its Jewish population over the past 50 years, mainly as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union after which many Jews . In March 1999, Maskhadov closed down the Chechen parliament and introduced aspects of Sharia. [117] Other major urban areas are Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and Chelyabinsk. [53] The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation oversees the Russian public healthcare system, and the sector employs more than two million people. In the middle Volga Basin are large populations of Tatars, Udmurts, and Chuvash, most of whom are Muslims. . The Chechen separatists were internally divided between the Islamic extremists, the more moderate pro-independent Muslim Chechens and the traditional Islamic authorities with various positions towards Chechen independence. On the same day an 18-year-old Chechen was stabbed to death by skinheads outside the Kremlin. The faith was introduced by merchants visiting the Swahili coast, as it became connected to a larger maritime trade network dominated by Muslims.This would lead to local conversions and assimilations of . ", "Vladimir Putin's Speech to the Duma on Minorities", "Vladimir Putin's Supposed Speech to the Duma on Minorities and Sharia Law", "Comeback: How Islam Got Its Groove Back in Russia", "Do minorities have a place in Putin's Russia? Insurgency in the North Caucasus continued until 2017. Johnny B says Nov 6, 2021 at 11:13 am "Blacklock's Reporter says the Muslim population as a portion of the entire country has more than tripled since 1996 but remains outnumbered 9 to 1 by Catholics." [116] Saint Petersburg, the cultural capital, is the second-largest city, with a population of roughly 5.4 million inhabitants. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. The Russian Federation inherited two of the four spiritual boards, or muftiates, created during the Stalinist era to supervise the religious activities of Islamic groups in various parts of the Soviet Union; the other two are located in Tashkent and Baku. Several factors contribute to the fast growth in the Muslim population. The Union of Muslims of Russia is the direct successor to the pre-World War I Union of Muslims, which had its own faction in the Russian Duma. Beat the Muslims! We are the new Jews.. [82] Russian is the second-most used language on the Internet after English,[83] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station,[84] as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. [68], There was large anger from mostly Muslims from the Caucasus against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons in France. It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 per square mile). More recently, President Putin consolidated this trend, subsidizing the creation of mosques and Islamic education, which he called an "integral part of Russia's cultural code",[10] encouraging immigration from Muslim-majority former Soviet bloc states, and condemning the anti-Muslim hate speech, such as caricatures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The majority of the Muslims resided in the Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union, which now are independent countries. A Chechen refugee went to Red Square to meet his girlfriend and was slapped and stabbed through the heart by a Russian nationalist. *, Relations between the Russian government and Muslim elements of the population have been marked by mistrust and suspicion. [42] A nachalnik was present in every one of the 11 cantons of the Bashkir host which was created by Russia after the Pugachev Rebellion. [7] The position of Islam as a major Russian religion, alongside Orthodox Christianity, dates from the time of Catherine the Great, who sponsored Islamic clerics and scholarship through the Orenburg Assembly. Those that remained loyal to Russia were settled into the lowlands, on the left bank of the Kuban' River. It doesnt just burn me up, it drives me crazy. Central mosque of Karachaevsk, Karachaevo-Cherkessia. [51] In 1995 the newly established Union of Muslims of Russia, led by Imam Khatyb Mukaddas of Tatarstan, began organizing a movement aimed at improving inter-ethnic understanding and ending Russians' lingering misconception of Islam. How many Muslims are there in each European country? India in numbers India now has 966.3 million Hindus,. Through the . By 2022 approx 20-21 crores or 15% of the population are Muslims In India. In 2006, in a bid to compensate for the country's demographic decline, the Russian government started simplifying immigration laws and launched a state program "for providing assistance to voluntary immigration of ethnic Russians from former Soviet republics". Indonesia, the largest Muslim country by population, hosted the G-20 leaders summit in 2022 when the Russia-Ukraine war divided the G-20. Therefore, if current trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4% of the world's total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030, up from 23.4% of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion. [115] Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city entirely within Europe, the most populous urban area in Europe,[114] the most populous metropolitan area in Europe,[115] and also the largest city by land area on the European continent. And as Muslim families have a birth rate one child higher than the rest of the continent, the Pew Research Center projects nearly 1 in 5 people will be Muslim in the United Kingdom (17%),. [60] Obesity is a prevalent health issue in Russia; 61.1% of Russian adults were overweight or obese in 2016. [79] There are 22 republics in Russia, who have their own ethnicities, cultures, and languages. The comments follow the beheading of a French schoolteacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to students. The UK Muslim population rose from 4.9 percent to 6.5 percent from 2011 to 2021. Sources: Our World In Data and Gapminder Foundation.[22]. [25], The Cossack Hetmanate recruited and incorporated Muslim Mishar Tatars. Sudan (39,585,777) Even though the nations on the list above have the most Muslims, several smaller countries have a greater concentration of Muslims than the larger ones. 35. [47] Later most of the European and Caucasian Turkic peoples also became followers of Islam. [82] The city has permitted the existence of four mosques. Chechens are arguably the most hated people in Russia. [citation needed] Due to overwhelming demand from Russian Muslims, on 5 July 2011, Muftis requested President Dmitry Medvedev's assistance in increasing the allocated by Saudi Arabia pilgrimage quota in Vladikavkaz. The new amendments also ban giving away Russian territory, a possible reference to Crimea. XX .). [99] According to various reports, the proportion of Atheists in Russia is between 16% and 48% of the population. Since 1992 he has headed the central or combined Muslim Spiritual Directorate of all of Russia. The Rosstat statistics agency said Russia's population increased 1.4 . If you are the copyright owner and would like this content removed from factsanddetails.com, please contact me. [14] In 2020, the total fertility rate across Russia was estimated to be 1.5 children born per woman,[15] which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and about equal to the European average. In Islam, each country has its own spiritual institutionalisation.. [16] There are over 193 ethnic groups nationwide. Global Muslim Population A report by Pew Research claims there are 1.8 billion muslims in the world and that's set to rise to around 3 billion by 2060. A large proportion of them died in transit from disease. In Muslim areas the slogan was; "There is no God, and Lenin is his prophet. [8], The history of Islam and Russia encompasses periods of conflict between the Muslim minority and the Orthodox majority, as well as periods of collaboration and mutual support. The fourth wave of Russian emigration took place after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 when people began migrating from Russia in large numbers. "This is not true of Muslim-majority countries . Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of the Council of Muftis. Muslims are followers of the religion Islam, who believe in and live by the teachings of the prophet Muhammad. What is it like to be a Muslim in Russia? [16], A policy of deliberately enforcing anti-modern, traditional, ancient conservative Islamic education in schools and Islamic ideology was enforced by the Russians in order to deliberately hamper and destroy opposition to their rule by keeping them in a state of torpor to and prevent foreign ideologies from penetrating in.[48][49]. Brill, 2001. The latter is a post-Soviet group that claims the allegiance of the majority of Russias Muslim groups. [73] Other minorities include Mongolian peoples (Buryats and Kalmyks),[74][75] the Indigenous peoples of Siberia,[76] a historical Jewish population,[77] and the Koryo-saram (including Sakhalin Koreans).[78]. 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