Editing Shia Islam (section)

==Demographics==
{{Main|Islam by country}}
[[File:Islam by country.png|thumb|upright=1.8|Islam by country
{{color box|#4a6600}}{{color box|#a8e600}}{{color box|#f8ffe6}} [[Sunni Islam|Sunnī]]
{{color box|#66004a}}{{color box|#cc0096}}{{color box|#ffe6f8}} Shia
{{color box|#000000}} [[Ibadi Islam|Ibadi]]]]
[[File:Madhhab Map3.png|thumb|upright=1.8|Map of the Muslim world's schools of jurisprudence<ref>{{cite web |date=2009 |title=Jurisprudence and Law – Islam: Reorienting the Veil |url=http://veil.unc.edu/religions/islam/law/ |publisher=University of North Carolina}}</ref>]]
Shia Islam is the [[Islamic schools and branches|second largest branch of Islam]].<ref name="PEW2009">{{cite web |date=7 October 2009 |title=Mapping the Global Muslim Population |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151214172939/http://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/ |archive-date=14 December 2015 |access-date=10 December 2014 |quote=The Pew Forum's estimate of the Shia population (10–13%) is in keeping with previous estimates, which generally have been in the range of 10–15%.}}</ref> It is estimated that 10–13%<ref name="BritannicaShiite1">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Shīʿite |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shii/Shii-dynasties |access-date=18 January 2022 |quotation=In the early 21st century some 10–13 percent of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims were Shiʿi.}}</ref><ref name="PRC">{{cite web |date=7 October 2009 |title=Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151214172939/http://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/ |archive-date=14 December 2015 |access-date=25 August 2010 |work=[[Pew Research Center]] |quotation=Of the total Muslim population, 10–13% are Shia Muslims and 87–90% are Sunni Muslims. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.}}</ref><ref name="mgmpPRC">{{cite book |url=http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/Muslimpopulation/Muslimpopulation.pdf |title=Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population |date=October 2009 |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |editor-last=Miller |editor-first=Tracy |access-date=8 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113140829/http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/Muslimpopulation/Muslimpopulation.pdf |archive-date=13 January 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> of the [[Islam by country|global Muslim population]] are Shias. They may number up to 200&nbsp;million as of 2009.<ref name="PRC" /> As of 1985, Shia Muslims are estimated to be 21% of the Muslim population in [[South Asia]], although the total number is difficult to estimate.<ref>{{harvnb|Momen|1985|p=277}}</ref>

Shia Muslims form a distinct majority of the population in three countries of the [[Muslim world]]: [[Islam in Iran|Iran]], [[Islam in Iraq|Iraq]], and [[Islam in Azerbaijan|Azerbaijan]].<ref name="mafhoum1">{{cite web |title=Foreign Affairs – When the Shiites Rise – Vali Nasr |url=http://www.mafhoum.com/press9/282S26.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115124722/http://www.mafhoum.com/press9/282S26.htm |archive-date=15 January 2014 |access-date=27 January 2014 |publisher=Mafhoum.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=11 December 2006 |title=Quick guide: Sunnis and Shias |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6213248.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228101639/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6213248.stm |archive-date=28 December 2008 |work=BBC News}}</ref> Shia Muslims constitute 36.3% of the entire population (and 38.6% of the Muslim population) of the [[Middle East]].<ref name="sha">{{cite book |title=Atlas of the Middle East |date=2008 |publisher=[[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] |isbn=978-1-4262-0221-6 |edition=Second |location=Washington, DC |pages=80–81}}</ref>

Estimates have placed the proportion of Shia Muslims in Lebanon between 27% and 45% of the population,<ref name="mafhoum1" /><ref>{{cite web |title=International Religious Freedom Report 2010 |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2010/148830.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213121147/https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2010/148830.htm |archive-date=13 December 2019 |access-date=17 November 2010 |publisher=U.S. Government Department of State}}</ref> 30–35% of the citizen population in [[Islam in Kuwait|Kuwait]] (no figures exist for the non-citizen population),<ref name="irfr2012">{{cite web |year=2012 |title=International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/religiousfreedom/index.htm?year=2012&dlid=208398#wrapper |work=[[US State Department]]}}</ref><ref name="ssi">{{cite web |date=April 2008 |title=The New Middle East, Turkey, and the Search for Regional Stability |url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub861.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318173523/http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub861.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2015 |work=[[Strategic Studies Institute]] |page=87}}</ref> over 20% in [[Islam in Turkey|Turkey]],<ref name="PRC" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Shankland |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lFFRzTqLp6AC&pg=PP1 |title=The Alevis in Turkey: The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition |publisher=Routledge |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7007-1606-7}}</ref> 5–20% of the population in [[Islam in Pakistan|Pakistan]],<ref>{{cite web |date=February 2005 |title=Country Profile: Pakistan |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Pakistan.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050717171649/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Pakistan.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2005 |access-date=1 September 2010 |work=[[Library of Congress Country Studies]] on Pakistan |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |quote=''Religion: The overwhelming majority of the population (96.3 percent) is Muslim, of whom approximately 95 percent are Sunni and 5 percent Shia.''}}</ref><ref name="PRC" /> and 10–19% of [[Shi'a Islam in Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]'s population,<ref name="lcweb2.loc.gov">{{cite web |date=August 2008 |title=Shia women too can initiate divorce |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Afghanistan.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408085103/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Afghanistan.pdf |archive-date=8 April 2014 |access-date=27 August 2010 |publisher=[[Library of Congress Country Studies]] on Afghanistan |quote=''Religion: Virtually the entire population is Muslim. Between 80 and 85 percent of Muslims are Sunni and 15 to 19 percent, Shia.''}}</ref><ref name="CIAAFG">{{cite web |title=Afghanistan |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html?countryName=Afghanistan&countryCode=af&regionCode=sas&#af |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528122742/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html?countryName=Afghanistan&countryCode=af&regionCode=sas&#af |archive-date=28 May 2010 |access-date=27 August 2010 |work=[[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) |publisher=[[The World Factbook]] on Afghanistan |quote=Religions: Sunni Muslim 80%, Shia Muslim 19%, other 1%}}</ref> and 45% in [[Islam in Bahrain|Bahrain]].<ref>[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]]: [], 1973, retrieved 14 February 2021</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Joyce|first=Miriam|title=Bahrain from the Twentieth Century to the Arab Spring|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2012|isbn=978-1-137-03178-5|location=New York, NY|pages=121}}</ref>

[[Saudi Arabia]] hosts a number of distinct Shia communities, including the [[Twelver]] [[Bahrani people|Baharna]] in the [[Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia|Eastern Province]] and [[Nakhawila]] of Medina, and the [[Isma'ilism|Ismāʿīlī]] [[Sulaymani]] and [[Zaydism|Zaydī Shias]] of [[Najran]]. Estimations put the number of Shīʿīte citizens at roughly 15% of the local population.<ref>{{cite news |last=al-Qudaihi |first=Anees |date=24 March 2009 |title=Saudi Arabia's Shia press for rights |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7959531.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407072038/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7959531.stm |archive-date=7 April 2010 |access-date=24 March 2009 |publisher=BBC Arabic Service}}</ref> Approximately 40% of the population of Yemen are Shia Muslims.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Merrick |first1=Jane |last2=Sengupta |first2=Kim |date=20 September 2009 |title=Yemen: The land with more guns than people |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-the-land-with-more-guns-than-people-1790461.html |access-date=21 March 2010 |work=The Independent |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Hriday |date=30 June 2011 |title=The Arab Spring: The Initiating Event for a New Arab World Order |url=https://www.e-ir.info/2011/06/30/the-arab-spring-the-initiating-event-for-a-new-arab-world-order/#_ednref24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829054650/https://www.e-ir.info/2011/06/30/the-arab-spring-the-initiating-event-for-a-new-arab-world-order/ |archive-date=29 August 2020 |website=E-international Relations |quote="In Yemen, Zaidists, a Shia offshoot, constitute 30% of the total population"}}</ref>

Significant Shia communities also exist in the coastal regions of [[West Sumatra]] and [[Aceh]] in Indonesia (see [[Tabuik]]).<ref name="Leo">{{cite book |author=Leonard Leo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYSA2uew3CUC&pg=PA261 |title=International Religious Freedom (2010): Annual Report to Congress |publisher=Diane Publishing |isbn=978-1-4379-4439-6 |pages=261– |access-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101201437/http://books.google.com/books?id=eYSA2uew3CUC&pg=PA261 |archive-date=1 January 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Shia presence is negligible elsewhere in Southeast Asia, where Muslims are predominantly [[Shafiʽi school|Shāfiʿī]] Sunnīs.

A significant [[Shi'a Islam in Nigeria|Shia minority is present in Nigeria]], made up of modern-era converts to a [[Islamic Movement (Nigeria)|Shīʿīte movement]] centered around [[Kano State|Kano]] and [[Sokoto State|Sokoto]] states.<ref name="PRC" /><ref name="mgmpPRC" /><ref>{{cite news |author=Paul Ohia |date=16 November 2010 |title=Nigeria: 'No Settlement With Iran Yet' |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201011170502.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018004932/http://allafrica.com/stories/201011170502.html |archive-date=18 October 2012 |newspaper=This Day}}</ref> Several African countries like [[Kenya]],<ref name="Nairobi">{{cite book |last1=Charton-Bigot |first1=Helene |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLX9n4fG5V8C&pg=PA239 |title=Nairobi Today: the Paradox of a Fragmented City |last2=Rodriguez-Torres |first2=Deyssi |date=2010 |publisher=African Books Collective |isbn=978-9987080939 |pages=239}}</ref> [[South Africa]],<ref name="Matthée2008">{{cite book |author=Heinrich Matthée |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hwGjbDurQ5IC&pg=PA136 |title=Muslim Identities and Political Strategies: A Case Study of Muslims in the Greater Cape Town Area of South Africa, 1994–2000 |publisher=kassel university press GmbH |year=2008 |isbn=978-3-89958-406-6 |pages=136– |access-date=14 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009062019/http://books.google.com/books?id=hwGjbDurQ5IC&pg=PA136 |archive-date=9 October 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Somalia]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Abdullahi |first=Mohamed Diriye |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Nu918tYMB8C&pg=PA55 |title=Culture and customs of Somalia |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-31333-2 |pages=55}}</ref> etc. hold small minority populations of various Shia subsects, primarily descendants of immigrants from South Asia during the colonial period, such as the [[Khoja]].<ref name="HaseMiyake2002">{{cite book |author1=Yasurō Hase |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qh0EAQAAIAAJ |title=South Asian migration in comparative perspective, movement, settlement and diaspora |author2=Hiroyuki Miyake |author3=Fumiko Oshikawa |publisher=Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology |year=2002 |access-date=20 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906043850/https://books.google.com/books?id=Qh0EAQAAIAAJ |archive-date=6 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Significant populations worldwide===
Figures indicated in the first three columns below are based on the October 2009 demographic study by the [[Pew Research Center]] report, ''Mapping the Global Muslim Population''.<ref name="PRC" /><ref name="mgmpPRC" />

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; float:left;"
|+Nations with over 100,000 Shia<ref name="PRC" /><ref name="mgmpPRC" />
|-
! style="width:10%;"|Country
! style="width:10%;"|Article
! style="width:10%;"|Shia population in 2009 (Pew)<ref name="PRC" /><ref name="mgmpPRC" /><!-- This column shows Pew statistics only, please! -->
! style="width:10%;"|Percent of population that is Shia in 2009 (Pew)<ref name="PRC" /><ref name="mgmpPRC" /><!-- This column shows Pew statistics only, please! -->
! style="width:10%;"|Percent of global Shia population in 2009 (Pew)<ref name="PRC" /><ref name="mgmpPRC" /><!-- This column shows Pew statistics only, please! -->
! style="width:20%;" class="unsortable"|Population estimate ranges and notes <!-- Please provide reliable, verifiable reference with the claim -->
|-
| {{Flagicon|Iran}} [[Islam in Iran|Iran]]
| [[Islam in Iran]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|66000}}66,000,000–69,500,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|90}}90–95
| align=right | {{ntsh|37}}37–40
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Shi'a Islam in Pakistan|Pakistan]]
| [[Shia Islam in the Indian subcontinent]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|25200}}25,272,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|15}}15
| align=right | {{ntsh|15}}15
| align=right | A 2023 census estimate was that Shia made up about 15-20% of Pakistan's population.<ref>{{cite web |date= 2023 |title=2023 Report on International Religious Freedom: Pakistan |url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/pakistan/ |publisher=US Department of State}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagicon|Iraq}} [[Iraq]]
| [[Shi'a Islam in Iraq]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|19000}}19,000,000–24,000,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|55}}55–65
| align=right | {{ntsh|10}}10–11
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|India}} [[Shi'a Islam in India|India]]
| [[Shia Islam in the Indian subcontinent]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|12300}}12,300,000–18,500,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|1.3}}1.3–2
| align=right | {{ntsh|9}}9–14
| align=right | 
|-
| {{Flagicon|Yemen}} [[Yemen]]
| [[Shia Islam in Yemen]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|7000}}7,000,000–8,000,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|35}}35–40
| align=right | {{ntsh|5}}~5
| align=right | Majority following [[Zaidiyyah|Zaydi Shia]] sect.
|-
| {{Flagicon|Turkey}} [[Turkey]]
| [[Shi'a Islam in Turkey]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|6000}}6,000,000–9,000,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|10}}~10–15
| align=right | {{ntsh|3}}~3–4
| align=right | Majority following [[Alevism|Alevi Shia]] sect.
|-
| {{Flagicon|Azerbaijan}} [[Azerbaijan]]
| [[Islam in Azerbaijan]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|4500}}4,575,000–5,590,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|45}}45–55
| align=right | {{ntsh|2}}2–3
| align=right | Azerbaijan is majority Shia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Reynolds |first=James |date=12 August 2012 |title=Why Azerbaijan is closer to Israel than Iran |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19063885 |publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Umutlu |first=Ayseba |title=Islam's gradual resurgence in post-Soviet Azerbaijan |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/islam-gradual-resurgence-post-soviet-azerbaijan-180108110517329.html}}</ref><ref name="Bedford">{{cite book |last=Bedford |first=Sofie |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327829401 |title=Turkish–Azerbaijani Relations: One Nation – Two States? |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1138650817 |editor-last1=Ismayilov |editor-first1=Murad |page=128 |editor-last2=Graham |editor-first2=Norman A.}}</ref> A 2012 work noted that in Azerbaijan, among believers of all faiths, 10% identified as Sunni, 30% identified as Shia, and the remainder of followers of Islam simply identified as Muslim.<ref name="Bedford" />
|-
| {{Flagicon|Afghanistan}}[[Afghanistan]]
| [[Shi'a Islam in Afghanistan]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|3000}}3,000,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|15}}15
| align=right | {{ntsh|1}}~2
| align=right | A reliable census has not been taken in Afghanistan in decades, but about 20% of Afghan population is Shia, mostly among ethnic [[Tajiks|Tajik]] and [[Hazaras|Hazara]] minorities.<ref>{{cite news |last=Massoud |first=Waheed |date=6 December 2011 |title=Why have Afghanistan's Shias been targeted now? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16045209 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagicon|Syria}} [[Syria]]
| [[Islam in Syria]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|2400}}2,400,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|13}}13
| align=right | {{ntsh|1}}~2
| align=right | Majority following [[Alawites|Alawites Shia]] sect.
|-
| {{Flagicon|Lebanon}} [[Lebanon]]
| [[Shi'a Islam in Lebanon]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|1000}}2,100,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|31}} 31.2
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right |In 2020, the CIA World Factbook stated that Shia Muslims constitute 31.2% of Lebanon's population.<ref>{{cite web |date=2020 |title=Lebanon |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/lebanon/ |publisher=CIA World Factbook}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagicon|KSA}} [[Saudi Arabia]]
| [[Shi'a Islam in Saudi Arabia]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|2000}}2,000,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|6}}~6
| align=right | {{ntsh|1}}
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Nigeria]]
| [[Shi'a Islam in Nigeria]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|3000}}<2,000,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|1}}<1
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right | Estimates range from as low as 2% of Nigeria's Muslim population to as high as 17% of Nigeria's Muslim population.{{Efn|A 2019 [[Council on Foreign Relations]] article states: "Nobody really knows the size of the Shia population in Nigeria. Credible estimates that its numbers range between 2 and 3 percent of Nigeria's population, which would amount to roughly four million."<ref name=Campbell>{{cite web |first=John |last=Campbell |url=https://www.cfr.org/blog/more-trouble-between-nigerias-shia-minority-and-police |title=More Trouble Between Nigeria's Shia Minority and the Police |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |date=10 July 2019}}</ref> A 2019 BBC News article said that "Estimates of [Nigerian Shia] numbers vary wildly, ranging from less than 5% to 17% of Nigeria's Muslim population of about 100 million."<ref>{{cite news |first=Haruna Shehu |last=Tangaza |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49175639 |title=Islamic Movement in Nigeria: The Iranian-inspired Shia group |publisher=BBC |date=5 August 2019}}</ref>}} Some, but not all, Nigerian Shia are affiliated with the banned [[Islamic Movement in Nigeria]], an Iranian-inspired Shia organization led by [[Ibrahim Zakzaky]].<ref name="Campbell" />
|-
| {{Flagicon|Tanzania}} [[Tanzania]]
| [[Islam in Tanzania]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|1500}}~1,500,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|2.5}}~2.5
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|Kuwait}} [[Kuwait]]
| [[Shi'a Islam in Kuwait]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|0500}}500,000–700,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|20}}20–25
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right | Among Kuwait's estimated 1.4&nbsp;million citizens, about 30% are Shia (including [[Ismaili]] and [[Ahmadi]], whom the Kuwaiti government count as Shia). Among [[Expatriates in Kuwait|Kuwait's large expatriate community]] of 3.3&nbsp;million noncitizens, about 64% are Muslim, and among expatriate Muslims, about 5% are Shia.<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Report on International Religious Freedom: Kuwait |url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-report-on-international-religious-freedom/kuwait/ |publisher=[[Office of International Religious Freedom]], United States Department of State}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagicon|Bahrain}} [[Bahrain]]
| [[Islam in Bahrain]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|400}}400,000–500,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|66}}65–70
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|Tajikistan}} [[Tajikistan]]
| [[Shi'a Islam in Tajikistan]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|400}}~400,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|4}}~4
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right |Shi'a Muslims in Tajikistan are predominantly [[Nizari Isma'ilism|Nizari Ismaili]]
|-
| {{Flagicon|Germany}} [[Germany]]
| [[Islam in Germany]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|400}}~400,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|0.5}}~0.5
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|UAE}} [[United Arab Emirates]]
| [[Islam in the United Arab Emirates]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|300}}~300,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|3}}~3
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|USA}} [[United States]]
| [[Islam in the United States]]<br />[[Shia Islam in the Americas]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|225}}~225,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|0.07}}~0.07
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right | Shi'a form a majority amongst Arab Muslims in many American cities, e.g. Lebanese Shi'a forming the majority in [[Detroit]].<ref>Aswad, B. and Abowd, T., 2013. Arab Americans. Race and Ethnicity: ''The United States and the World'', pp. 272–301.</ref>
|-
| {{Flagicon|UK}} [[United Kingdom]]
| [[Islam in the United Kingdom]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|125}}~125,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|0.2}}~0.2
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|Qatar}} [[Qatar]]
| [[Islam in Qatar]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|100}}~100,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|3.5}}~3.5
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right |
|-
| {{Flagicon|Oman}} [[Oman]]
| [[Islam in Oman]]
| align=right | {{ntsh|100}}~100,000
| align=right | {{ntsh|2}}~2
| align=right | {{ntsh|0}}<1
| align=right | As of 2015, about 5% of Omanis are Shia (compared to about 50% [[Ibadi]] and 45% Sunni).<ref>{{cite news |last=Erlich |first=Reese |date=4 August 2015 |title=Mitigating Sunni-Shia conflict in 'the world's most charming police state' |url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-04/mitigating-sunni-shia-conflict-world-s-most-charming-police-state |publisher=Agence France-Presse}}</ref>
|}
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