Muslim world are: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, and Yemen. Other states where Islam is the politically defined state religion are: Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Somalia and Brunei. Other Muslim-majority countries include: Niger, Indonesia, Sudan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sierra Leone, Djibouti, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Northern Cyprus, Nigeria, Senegal, Syria, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan. More than 24.1% of the world's population is Muslim. Current estimates conclude that the number of Muslims in the world is around 1.8 billion. Muslims are the
Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India School of Oriental and African Studies", Digby stated that estimate lacks accurate data in pre-census times. Marxist historian Irfan Habib criticized the book in his "Economic History of the Delhi Sultanate"(1978). K. S. Lal wrote a reply to Irfan Habib's criticism in 1979 in his book "Bias in Indian Historiography" (1979) and "Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India" (1999). Koenraad Elst, a Hindutva sympathizer, referred to Lal's statistics in his book "Negationism in India", remarking that "More research is needed before we can settle for a quantitatively accurate evaluation of Muslim rule in India, but at least we