A Muslim in a burkha.

There are 1.57billion Muslims around the world, meaning that nearly one in four people practises Islam, and 1,647,000 of them live in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail reports.

The size of the Muslim population has long been the subject of guesswork, with estimates ranging anywhere from one billion to 1.8billion. But a report by the Pew Research Centre’s Forum on Religion and Public Life is billed as the most comprehensive of its kind.

According to the report, Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon, China has more than Syria, and Russia has more than Jordan and Libya combined.

Britain has 1,647,000 Muslims – 2.7 per cent of the UK population, and 0.1 per cent of the global Muslim population.

Islam is the world’s second largest religion behind Christianity, which has an estimated 2.1billion to 2.2billion followers.

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