How many Muslims stay in Ukraine?
About 1.5 million Muslims live in Ukraine, the most of whom are Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars and people from Muslim countries who came to Ukraine long ago and integrated. The smaller part is made up of refugees and students from the Islamic countries, who do not stay here for a long time.
Muslims make up almost 1 percent of the population in Ukraine, which is predominantly Orthodox Christian. There is a large Muslim population in Crimea — home to the Crimean Tatars and illegally annexed by Russian in 2014.
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Islam in Europe.
| 90–100% | Azerbaijan Kosovo Turkey |
|---|---|
| 70–80% | Kazakhstan |
| 50–70% | Bosnia and Herzegovina Albania |
| 30–50% | North Macedonia |
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Islam in Europe.
| 90–100% | Azerbaijan Kosovo Turkey |
|---|---|
| 10–20% | Bulgaria Cyprus Georgia Montenegro Russia |
About 67.3% of the population declared adherence to one or another strand of Orthodox Christianity (28.7% of the Kyiv Patriarchate, 23.4% just Orthodox, 12.8% of the Moscow Patriarchate, 0.3% Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and 1.9% other types of Orthodoxy), 7.7% just Christians, 9.4% Greek Rite Catholics, ...
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Does Ukraine have a lot of Muslims?
Although Muslims make up only about 1 percent of the predominantly Christian country of 44 million people, many have joined the war effort following Russia's invasion. Many are driven by a history of Russian injustices against Muslim communities and support for what is seen as an open and tolerant Ukraine.
In Ukraine the dominant religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity (over 88% of religious population) and about 15,8% of the religious population in Ukraine are Catholics (mostly in Western Ukraine). In addition, nearly 500,000 Muslims and 400,000 Jews are estimated to live in Ukraine.
Ukraine is an overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian nation, with nearly eight-in-ten adults (78%) identifying as Orthodox (compared with 71% in Russia), according to a 2015 Pew Research Center survey of much of the country (some contested areas in eastern Ukraine were not surveyed).