Bangladesh is a Muslim majority nation and Islam is the state religion of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The Muslim population was approximately 152 million, constituting 90.39% of the total population as of 2011 census and making Bangladesh the third-largest Muslim majority nation in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan. The majority of Bangladeshis are Sunni. They follow the Hanafi Islamic jurisprudence, but there is also an increasing numbers of the Ahle Hadith. Religion has always been a strong part of Bangladeshi identity, but the specific identity has varied at different times. Bangladesh although a developing country is one of the few secular Muslim majority countries in the world.