Ahmadiyya Population in World (2016)

According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, the Ahmadiyya movement is the fastest growing sect within Islam as of the early 21st century. The country with the largest Ahmadiyya population is Pakistan, with an estimated 4 million Ahmadi Muslims. Excluding small nations, the country with the largest proportion of Ahmadi Muslims to other Muslims is Ghana, standing at 16%. The country with the highest percentage is Sierra Leone standing at over 8%.

As of 2016 the community has been established in 209 countries and territories of the world. with concentrations in South Asia, West Africa, East Africa and Indonesia. The community is a minority Muslim sect in almost every country of the world. On the other hand, it has spread to most countries of the world.[4][5] In some countries, it is practically illegal to be an Ahmadi Muslim. For instance, in Pakistan, following the Ordinance XX, Ahmadis cannot call themselves Muslims, profess the Islamic creed publicly or call their places of worship mosques. Together, these factors make it difficult to estimate the Ahmadiyya population for both the community itself and as well as independent organizations. For this reason, the community gives a figure of "tens of millions";[6] however, most independent sources variously estimate the population to be at least 10 to 20 million[7] worldwide, thereby representing around 1% of the world's Muslim population


The following maps summarize the data presented in the table below.

World Ahmadi Muslim population. (Sources are various. See table below.)

World Ahmadi Muslims as a percentage of Muslims. (Sources are various. See table below.)

The following figures display estimates of the number of Ahmadi Muslims and their percentages by country. However, it does not list all the countries with the Ahmadiyya presence. In particular, it does not list a number of countries which have a large presence of Ahmadis. This includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, The Gambia and a number of Arab States.

Country/Region	Ahmadiyya population	Percentage (%) of Muslims	Percentage (%) of population	Notes/ Sources
Algeria (details)	1,000	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[8][9]
Argentina (details)	15,500	2.0	< 0.1	Estimate[10]
Australia (details)	3,000	0.8	< 0.1	Estimate[11]
Austria (details)	300	0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[12]
Bangladesh (details)	100,000	0.1	0.1	Estimate[13][n 5]
Belarus (details)	30	0.2	< 0.1	Estimate[14]
Belgium (details)	1,250	0.2	< 0.1	Estimate[15]
Belize (details)	50	1.8	< 0.1	Estimate[16]
Brazil (details)	20	0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[17]
Bulgaria (details)	400	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[18]
Cameroon (details)	430,000	12.0	2.2	PRC[19]
Canada (details)	25,000	2.5	0.1	Estimate[20]
Chad (details)	220,000	4.0	2.0	PRC[19]
Congo (details)	540,000	6.0	0.7	PRC[19]
Denmark (details)	600	0.3	< 0.1	Estimate[21]
Egypt (details)	50,000	0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[22]
Fiji (details)	2,000	3.6	0.3	1996 Census[n 6]
France (details)	1,000	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[23]
Germany (details)	35,000-45,000	0.9	< 0.1	Estimate[24][25][26]
Ghana (details)	635,000	16.0	2.5	PRC[19][n 7]
Guatemala (details)	100	8.3	< 0.1	Estimate[27]
Guinea Bissau (details)	13,000	2.0	0.8	PRC[19]
Guyana (details)	200*	0.4	< 0.1	Estimate[n 8]
India (details)	1,000,000	0.6	< 0.1	Estimate[28][29]
Indonesia (details)	400,000	0.2	0.2	ARDA[30][31]
Ireland (details)	500	1.2	< 0.1	Estimate[32]
Israel (details)	2,200	0.2	< 0.1	Estimate[33]
Italy (details)	100	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[34]
Jamaica (details)	100	2.0	< 0.1	Estimate[35]
Japan (details)	300	0.3	< 0.1	Estimate[36]
Kazakhstan (details)	500	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[37]
Kenya (details)	198,000	4.0	0.3	PRC[19]
Kyrgyzstan (details)	1,000	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[38]
Lesotho (details)	350	35.0	< 0.1	AMC[39]:76
Liberia (details)	85,000	10.0	1.2	PRC[19]
Malaysia (details)	2,000	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[40]
Mali (details)	260,000	2.0	1.6	PRC[19]
Marshall Islands (details)	10	100.0	< 0.1	Estimate[41]
Mauritius (details)	4,000	1.9	0.3	Estimate[42]
Mexico (details)	100	2.7	< 0.1	Esitimate[43]
Morocco (details)	500	< 0.1	< 0.1	Esitimate[44]
Netherlands (details)	1,500	0.2	< 0.1	Estimate[45]
New Zealand (details)	400	1.0	< 0.1	Estimate[46]
Niger (details)	970,000	6.0	5.5	PRC[19]
Nigeria (details)	2,840,000	3.0	1.3	PRC[19]
Norway (details)	1,500	1.0	< 0.1	Estimate[47]
Pakistan (details)	600,000 - 4,900,000	0.3 - 2.2	0.3 - 2.2	Various estimates[n 9]
Poland (details)	38	0.2	< 0.1	Estimate[48]
Russia (details)	50	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[37]
Senegal (details)	116,000	1.0	0.9	PRC[19]
Sierra Leone (details)	500,000	12.0	8.1	AMC
Singapore (details)	200	< 0.1	< 0.1	1970s Estimate[49]
Solomon Islands (details)	1,000	50.0	0.2	Estimate[n 10]
Spain (details)	500	< 0.1	< 0.1	Estimate[50]
Suriname (details)	14,000	18.9	2.6	2012 Census[n 11]
Swaziland (details)	250	12.5	< 0.1	AMC[39]:107
Sweden (details)	800	0.2	< 0.1	Estimate.[n 12]
Switzerland (details)	800	0.2	< 0.1	Estimate[51]
Tanzania (details)	2,540,000	15.0	4.5	PRC[19]
Thailand (details)	300	< 0.1	< 0.1	AMC Estimate[52]
Trinidad and Tobago (details)	500*	0.7	< 0.1	Estimate[n 13]
Tuvalu (details)	50	100.0	0.5	2005 Estimate[53]
Uganda (details)	192,000	4.0	0.5	PRC[19]
United Kingdom (details)	30,000	1.0	< 0.1	Estimate[54]
United States (details)	15,000	0.6	< 0.1	Estimate[55]
Zambia (details)	500	0.8	< 0.1	Estimate[56]