U.S. admits its highest number of Muslim refugees on record in fiscal 2016 Number of refugees entering the USS by religious affiliation 90K 70
A total of 38,901 Muslim refugees entered the U.S. in fiscal year 2016, making up almost half (46%) of the nearly 85,000 refugees who entered the country in that period, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. That means the U.S. has admitted the highest number of Muslim refugees of any year since data on self-reported religious affiliations first became publicly available in 2002.
Almost the same number of Christian (37,521) as Muslim refugees were admitted in fiscal 2016, which ended Sept. 30. A slightly lower share of 2016’s refugees were Christian (44%) than Muslim, the first time that has happened since fiscal 2006, when a large number of Somali refugees entered the U.S.
U.S. admits its highest number of Muslim refugees  | on record in fiscal 2016  | Number of refugees entering the USS by religious affiliation  | 90K  | 80  | 70  | 60  | Unaffiliated  | 50  | Other  | 40  | 30 Unknown  | Christian  | 20  | Muslim  | 10  | '02 '03 100 `05 '06 '07 '08 '09 10 '11 12 '13 '14 '15 16  | FISCAL YEAR  | Note: Other religions include Hindus, Buddhists Jews and other religions. Data  | do not include special immigrant visas and certain humanitarian parole entrants.  | Fiscal years are Oct. 1 through Sept 30 each year.  | Source: U.S State Depa rtment's Refugee Processing Center accessed  | Oct. 3. 2016.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 