what is the important source of income of for most Islamic countries
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The economy of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) combines the economies of 57 member states. 53 are predominantly Muslim states. Those 57 OIC countries have a combined GDP (at Purchasing power parity; PPP) of US$27,949 billion. The richest country on the basis of GDP per capita at PPP is United Arab Emirates. On basis of per capita GDP, Qatar is richest country with incomes exceeding US$133,357 per capita. According to a report by Salam Standard, the GDP impact of the world’s Muslim tourism sector exceeded $138 billion in 2015, generating 4.3 million jobs and contributing more than $18 billion in tax revenue.[1]
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Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest religious group. According to a study in 2015, Islam has 1.8 billion adherents, making up about 24.1% of the world population.[1] Most Muslims are either of two denominations: Sunni (80–85%, roughly 1.5 billion people)[2] or Shia (15-20%, roughly 240–340 million people).[3] Islam is the dominant religion in Central Asia, Indonesia, Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel[4][5][6][7] and some other parts of Asia.[8] The diverse Asia-Pacific region contains the highest number of Muslims in the world, easily surpassing the Middle East and North Africa.[9]
South Asia contains the largest population of Muslims in the world. One-third of Muslims are of South Asian origin.[10][11][12] Pakistan is the second largest Muslim-majority country in terms of population in the world.[13] Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with about 200 million people.[14]
The various Hamito-Semitic (including Arab, Berber), Turkic, and Iranic countries of the greater Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region,[15] where Islam is the dominant religion in every country other than Israel,[5] host 23% of world Muslims.
The country with the single largest population of Muslims is Indonesia in Southeast Asia, which on its own hosts 13% of the world's Muslims.[16] Together, the Muslims in the countries of Southeast Asia constitute the world's third-largest population of Muslims. In the countries of the Malay Archipelago, Muslims are majorities in each country other than the Philippines, Singapore, and East Timor.
About 15% of Muslims reside in Sub-Saharan Africa,[17][page needed][6][18] and sizeable Muslim communities are also found in the Americas, China, Russia, and Europe.[4]
Western Europe hosts many Muslim immigrant communities where Islam is the second-largest religion after Christianity, where it represents 6% of the total population or 24 million people.[19] Converts and immigrant communities are found in almost every part of the world.