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Islam in the Americas is a minority religion in all of the countries and territories of the Americas. Approximately 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 January 25, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 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. January 3, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^ "New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow". Pew Research Center. January 3, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
- ^ "Demographics: Muslim population" (PDF). Pew Research Center. July 27, 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 27, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^ "Findings from Pew Research Center's 2017 survey of US muslims". Pew Research Center. July 26, 2017.
- ^ "Islam in the Caribbean". El Independiente.com.ar. Archived from the original on September 8, 2014.