Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

How many Muslims live in Germany? 79
grated from Southeast Europe and Muslim dependents thereof
who were born in Germany comes a distant second. This group
contains between 496,000 and 606,000 persons. The Middle
East is the origin of between 292,000 and 370,000 Muslims living
in Germany. The remaining 541,000 to 692,000 persons
originate from various regions of origin such as Central Asia/
CIS, Iran, South/Southeast Asia and Africa.
Figure 9: Total number of Muslims from the countries covered according
to their region of origin (in thousands) 32
3.000
2.500
2.000
1.500
1.000
500
0
550
Southeastern
Europe
2.561
17
Turkey Central
Asia/CIS
330
280
186
70 61
Iran South/
Southeast
Asia
Middle
Eas t
North
Africa
other parts
of Africa
Minimum value Mean value Maximum value
Projection on the basis of MLG 2008, dataset covering all household members and the
AZR as at 30 June 2008
2.1.4 Comparison of the extrapolated results with other
sources of data
The figure which has been extrapolated on the basis of
the “Muslim Life in Germany” survey and data from the AZR,
32 The percentage distribution of Muslims by region of origin is presented in figure 10 in
section 2.2.1.