Islam in the Americas

Islam is a minority religion in all of the countries and territories of the Americas, around 1% of North America population are Muslims, and 0.1% of Latin America and Caribbean population are Muslims.^[1]

Suriname has the highest percentage of Muslims in its population for the region, with 13.9% or 75,053 individuals, according to its 2012 census.^[2] However, the United States, in which estimates vary due to a lack of a census question, is generally believed to have the largest population, with approximately 3.45 million Muslims living there,^[3] about 1.1 percent of the total U.S. population.^[4]

Most Muslims in the former British Caribbean came from the Indian subcontinent as indentured servants following the abolition of slavery.^[5] This movement also reached Suriname, although other Muslims there moved from a separate Dutch colony, which is now Indonesia. In the United States, the largest Muslim ethnic group is of white Arabs from the Middle East.^[6] However, in South America, the Muslim population is mainly composed of upper-class immigrants from the Levant, including those from Lebanon and Syria.^[7]

^ "The Global Religious Landscape" (PDF). Pewforum.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
^ 2012 Suriname Census Definitive Results Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. Algemeen Bureau voor de Statistiek - Suriname.
^ "A new estimate of U.S. Muslim population". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
^ "New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow". Pew Research Center. January 3, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
^ . 2011-07-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20110727173718/http://pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Demographics/Muslimpopulation.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/07/26/findings-from-pew-research-centers-2017-survey-of-us-muslims/#:~:text=Pew%20Research%20Center%20estimates%20that,1.1%25%20of%20the%20U.S.%20population. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Islam in the Caribbean". Archived from the original on 2014-09-08.

[Survey-1] "The Global Religious Landscape" (PDF). Pewforum.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2020.

[2] 2012 Suriname Census Definitive Results Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. Algemeen Bureau voor de Statistiek - Suriname.

[3] "A new estimate of U.S. Muslim population". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2019-11-11.

[Pew2017-4] "New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow". Pew Research Center. January 3, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2018.

[5] . 2011-07-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20110727173718/http://pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Demographics/Muslimpopulation.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[6] ttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/07/26/findings-from-pew-research-centers-2017-survey-of-us-muslims/#:~:text=Pew%20Research%20Center%20estimates%20that,1.1%25%20of%20the%20U.S.%20population. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[7] "Islam in the Caribbean". Archived from the original on 2014-09-08.

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