Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

How many Muslims live in Germany? 83
Table 7: Religious affiliation of individuals with a migrant background
according to their country of origin in comparison with the religious
composition of the population of their country of origin
according to the CIA World Factbook (part 2)
Muslims
according
to the CIA World
Factbook at
18.12.2008
(in per cent)
Religious affiliation of the household
members covered by the survey
according to Muslim Life in Germany 2008
(in per cent)
Muslim
Other
religious
affiliation
No
religious
affiliation
Total
Kazakhstan 47,0 0,5 69,3 30,2 100,0
Lebanon 59,7 74,0 7,6 18,4 100,0
Morocco 98,7 77,8 1,8 20,3 100,0
Pakistan 95,0 86,6 1,5 11,9 100,0
Rest of North Africa X 69,4 5,9 24,7 100,0
Rest of central Asia/CIS X 5,2 57,0 37,8 100,0
Rest of Africa X 22,1 60,7 17,1 100,0
Russian Federation 12,5 1,3 57,9 40,8 100,0
Syria 90,0 40,7 37,6 21,7 100,0
Source: CIA World Factbook as at 18 December 2008 and MLG 2008, dataset covering all
household members, weighted (X = no figures given in the CIA World Factbook, as the
project states were compiled into groups)
Another difficulty encountered in extrapolating the
number of Muslims in Germany lies in the fact that while the
number of foreign nationals living in Germany from each country
of origin is known, there is no information on the number of
Germans with a migrant background for most of the countries
of origin covered in the Muslim Life in Germany study. This
means that, unlike for foreign nationals, there are no external
substantiated figures provided by official statistics or other
such sources for Germans with a migrant background which