Editing Demographics of Bahrain (section)

==Religion==
{{main|Religion in Bahrain}}
{{See also|Freedom of religion in Bahrain|Islam in Bahrain}}
{| class="wikitable"
|- align="center"
| <ref name="auto"/>
! Men
! Women
! Total
! Bahraini
! Non-Bahraini
|- align="center"
! Muslims
| 674,329
| 437,204
! 1,111,533
| 710,067
| 401,466
|- align="center"
! Others
| 268,566
| 121,536
! 390,102
| 2,295
| 387,807
|- align="center"
! Total
| 942,895
| 558,740
! 1,501,635
| 712,362
| 789,273
|- align="center"
! Muslim %
| 
| 
! 74.0%
| 99.7%
| 50.9%
|-
|}
[[Islam in Bahrain|Islam]] is the official religion forming 74% of the population.<ref name="auto"/> Current census data does not differentiate between the other religions in Bahrain, but in 2022, the country was approximately 12%<ref name="US State Dept 2022 report">[https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/bahrain US State Dept 2022 report]</ref> [[Christianity in Bahrain|Christian]] and had about 40<ref name="US State Dept 2022 report"/><ref name="bahjew">{{cite news|title=Low profile but welcome: a Jewish outpost in the Gulf|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/low-profile-but-welcome-a-jewish-outpost-in-the-gulf-398656.html|newspaper=Independent|date=2 Nov 2007|access-date=16 March 2012|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224183810/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/low-profile-but-welcome-a-jewish-outpost-in-the-gulf-398656.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[History of the Jews in Bahrain|Jewish]] citizens.

According to the website of Ministry of Information Affairs, 74% of the population are [[Muslim]], with [[Christians]] being the second largest religious group, forming 10.2% of the population, [[Jews]] making up 0.21%. The percentage of local Bahraini Christians, Jews, Hindus and Baha’is is collectively 0.2%.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Population and Demographics - Ministry of Information Affairs {{!}} Kingdom of Bahrain|url=https://www.mia.gov.bh/kingdom-of-bahrain/population-and-demographics/?lang=en|access-date=2020-11-06|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110161444/https://www.mia.gov.bh/kingdom-of-bahrain/population-and-demographics/?lang=en|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url=https://www.data.gov.bh/en/ResourceCenter/DownloadFile?id=3582 |title= Kingdom of Bahrain Open Data Portal: Archived copy |access-date=2021-05-02 |archive-date=2021-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502014151/https://www.data.gov.bh/en/ResourceCenter/DownloadFile?id=3582 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Bahrani people|Bahraini citizen]]s of Muslim faith belong to the [[Shi'a]] and [[Sunni]] branches of Islam. The last official census (1941) to include sectarian identification reported 52% (88,298 citizens) as [[Shia Islam|Shia]] and 48% as [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] of the Muslim population.<ref>Qubain, Fahim Issa (1955) “Social Classes and Tensions in Bahrain.” The Middle East Journal 9, no. 3: 269–280, p. 270</ref><ref name=":1" /> Unofficial sources, such as the [[Library of Congress Country Studies]],<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+bh0022) Bahrain Country Study] Library of Congress</ref> and ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/25/world/1981-plot-in-bahrain-linked-to-iranians.html 1981 Plot in Bahrain linked to Iranians] New York Times, 25 July 1982, retrieved 20 June 2018</ref> estimate sectarian identification to be approximately 45% [[Sunni]] and 55% [[Shia]]. An official Bahraini document revealed that 51% of the country's citizens are Sunnis, while the Shiite population has declined to 49% of the Muslim population.<ref>[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]]: [http://www.aljazeera.net/news/reportsandinterviews/2011/7/4/%d9%88%d8%ab%d9%8a%d9%82%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b4%d9%8a%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d9%82%d9%84-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d8%b5%d9%81 ''وثيقة بحرينية: الشيعة أقل من النصف''], 1973, retrieved 14 February 2021</ref>

Foreigners, overwhelmingly from [[South Asia]] and other [[Arab countries]], constituted 52.6% of the population in 2020.<ref name="auto"/> Of these, 50.9% are Muslim and 49.1% are non-Muslim,<ref name="auto"/> including Christians (primarily: [[Catholic]], [[Protestant]], [[Syriac Orthodox]], and [[Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church|Mar Thoma]] from [[South India]]), [[Hinduism in Arab states|Hindu]]s, [[Buddhism in the Middle East|Buddhist]]s, [[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼís]], and [[Sikh]]s.
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