According to Adherents.com, the world Sunni population is 940 Million.
20%saudi population and 1% of world muslim population
85% of the Muslim population is Sunni, so there are approximately 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims in the world at this moment in time.There are around 1600 million Muslims in the world. Around 85% from them are Sunnis.
There are roughly 1800 million Muslims in the world, and the percent of Sunni Muslims in the Islamic faith is roughly 85-90%. Thus, around 1500 million of the total 7000 million people (1.5 out of 7 billion of the world population) is Sunni Muslim.
First, you have to understand that there is nothing called Sunni Religion. Sunni Are Muslims who follow the footsteps of the prophet Mohamed PBUH, they are 90% of the Muslim population. Shiite are Muslims also, but they have different approach or understanding in the practices, but both worship the one and only god and believe in Mohamed as the prophet and messenger of Allah. Saying so, the total population of Muslims world wide is 1,226 million.Check the sources on http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm
About 8% of Irans population are Sunni Muslims, the rest are Shi'a.
In Afghanistan, approximately 99 percent of the population is Muslim, and of those 80-85% are Sunni Muslims. In Afghanistan, most Sunni Muslims belong to and follow the Hanafi school of teaching.
Sunni Islam comprises roughly 85% of the worldwide Islamic population.
Sunni Islam is an offshoot of Islam who represent majority of Muslims all around the world. The larges single nation containing Sunni Muslim population is Indonesia. However; they also live as a majority in Turkey, Saudia Arabia, UAE, Bosnia, and Pakistan.
Currently, one can find Muslims all throughout the world, but the Muslim majority countries are as follows (in order of population of Muslims):IndonesiaPakistanBangladeshNigeriaEgyptTurkeyIran (Shi'a majority)SudanAlgeriaAfghanistanMoroccoIraq (Sunni/Shi'a)MalaysiaSaudi ArabiaUzbekistanYemen (Sunni/Shi'a)SyriaKazakhstanNigerBurkina FasoMaliSenegalTunisiaGuineaSomaliaAzerbaijan (Shi'a)TajikistanSierra LeoneLibyaJordanUnited Arab EmiratesKyrgyzstanTurkmenistanChadLebanon (Sunni/Shi'a)Kuwait (Sunni/Shi'a)AlbaniaMauritaniaOman (Ibadi)KosovoThe GambiaBahrain (Shi'a)ComorosQatarDjiboutiBruneiMaldivesIf a country has nothing in parentheses, it is a Sunni majority country. Sunni/Shi'a means that there is a sizable majority of both sects in the country.
The main religion in Egypt is Islam, with the majority of the population being Sunni Muslims. There is also a Christian minority, mainly Copts, who make up about 10% of the population.
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While some 90 percent of Egyptians are Sunni Muslims, the number of Shia in Egypt has been estimated at up to 2.2 million, including "Twelvers" and Ismailis. A Shiite dynasty, the Fatimids, conquered Egypt in 969 and ruled the country for 200 years.