More than half of all Muslims in the world live in South Asia. Only Indonesia (210 million) has more Muslims than Pakistan (154 million), with India close behind (138 million) and Bangladesh next (117 million).
Muslims make up 13.4 percent of India's billion-plus. They are the country’s largest and fastest-growing religious minority, and one of its very poorest and most backward communities by every measure: income, literacy, female literacy, access to piped water, access to electricity, employment, land ownership, SSC examinees (i.e., high school graduates). Muslim women are among the most subjugated, which in India is saying a lot.
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