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What is the population of Muslims in the world? |
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How many Muslim women are there in the UK? |
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What is the educational attainment for Muslim girls in Britain? |
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What is the employment rate for Muslim women in Britain? |
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How many Muslim graduates are there in the UK? |
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What is the age structure of Muslims in Britain? |
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Where do Muslim communities live in Britain? |
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What are the ethnic backgrounds of Muslims living in Britain? |
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In the UK, Where are the imams / religious clerics from? |
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How many mosques are there in Britain? |
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What is the population of Muslims in the world? |
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There are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world and make up about 23% of the total global population, which means 1 in 4 people in the world are Muslim. |
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How many Muslim women are there in the UK? |
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According to the 2001 Census, there are 1.6 million Muslims in Britain who make up 3% of the total population. However, this data is old and current estimates suggest a population of about 2 million Muslims. As half of the Muslim population are women, there are approximately 800 000 to 1 million Muslim women in Britain. |
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What is the educational attainment for Muslim girls in Britain? |
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Muslims are among those who experience the highest levels of academic under achievement and lack of qualifications in Britain. About 31% of Muslims of working age have no qualifications (the highest proportion for any religious group). Muslims are the least likely to have degrees. In 2002, the proportion of Muslim children achieving five or more A-C grades in GSCE subjects was lower than for white, Chinese and Indian groups. For example, Pakistanis (40%); Bangladeshi (45%); Indian (64%); Chinese (72%); White (50%). Muslim girls are achieving higher grades than Muslim boys and White boys and are catching up to White girls. The proportion of Muslim children in higher education is slowly increasing. (Source : Dept of Education and Skills, 2003). |
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What is the employment rate for Muslim women in Britain? |
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Approximately 66% of Muslim women of working age are economically inactive, which is the highest when compared with women of other faith groups. |
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How many Muslim graduates are there in the UK? |
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Muslim graduates are a small group in the labour market - there are 150,000 Muslim graduates in GB, representing about 2% of all graduates. Muslim graduates are less likely to be in employment than the average graduate. Their employment rate is 76% compared to an overall graduate rate of 87% - a 12% gap.
There are higher inactivity rates among female Muslim graduates compared with other female graduates and Muslim male graduates. This could be related to cultural issues where female graduates face barriers to employment because of family commitment including childcare which makes it difficult for them to get employment outside the areas they live.
(Source: Ethnic Minority Employment Task Force). |
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What is the age structure of Muslims in Britain? |
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The Muslim population has the youngest age structure of all religions in the UK. More than half of Britain’s Muslims are below 25 years of age. One third of Muslims are under 16 years of age. (The average nationally is 20%). The average age of Muslims is 28 years while the average age nationally is 41 years. (Source : National Statistics : Census 2001). |
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Where do Muslim communities live in Britain? |
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The Muslim population is highly concentrated into a small number of large urban areas: 38% of Muslims live in London and make up 8% of London’s population. The West Midlands (majority in Birmingham) has about 14% of the Muslim population. The North West (mainly in Manchester) has 13% Muslims. Yorkshire and Humber (mainly in Bradford, Dewsbury, Leeds etc) has 12% Muslims. (Source : National Statistics : Census 2001). |
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What are the ethnic backgrounds of Muslims living in Britain? |
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Ethnic backgrounds of Muslims in Britain Pakistani (43%); Bangladeshi (17%); Indian (8%); White (4%); the rest of Muslims come from Middle, East Africa, Europe and other parts of the world. Newer Muslim communities included: Iraqis, Turks, Nigerians, Iranians, Algerians, Kurds, Somalis, Bosnians, Kosovars and others. |
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In the UK, Where are the imams / religious clerics from? |
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Approximately 8% of imams preaching in British mosques are born in the UK which does not reflect the percentage of British Muslims who represent more than half of the Muslim population. 50% of imams are from Pakistan, 20% from Bangladesh and 15% from India. Almost 45% of imams have been in the UK for less than five years. 6% of imams arrived in the UK in the past 12 months with 23% being in the UK for more than 10 years. Approximately 6% of imams speak English as a first language. (Source : Research carried out by Chester University for the BBC between February and March 2007). |
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How many mosques are there in Britain? |
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There are at least 1600 mosques in the UK. Mosques often remained in the control of first generation migrants. The different communites, e.g. Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, Arabs etc tend to have separate mosques. |
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