Muslims in European countries

 

As of 2024, the percentage of Muslims in European countries varies significantly by nation. Here are some approximate figures for selected countries, based on recent estimates and projections:

Western Europe:

1. France: ~10% (largest Muslim population in Europe)

2. Germany: ~6.6% - 7%

3. United Kingdom: ~6.7%

4. Netherlands: ~5% - 6%

5. Belgium: ~7.5%

6. Sweden: ~8% - 8.5%

7. Switzerland: ~6%

8. Austria: ~8%

9. Denmark: ~5.5%

10. Norway: ~3.7%

11. Italy: ~4.5% - 5%

12. Spain: ~4%

Eastern & Southern Europe:

13. Albania: ~60% (majority Muslim)

14. Bosnia and Herzegovina: ~50%

15. Kosovo: ~95%

16. North Macedonia: ~33%

17. Bulgaria: ~10% - 12%

18. Montenegro: ~19%

19. Serbia: ~3.5%

20. Greece: ~2% - 3%

21. Russia: ~10% - 15% (mostly in regions like Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan)

22. Turkey (European part): ~90%+

Other Notable Countries:

23. Finland: ~2.5%

24. Portugal: ~1%

25. Ireland: ~1.5% - 2%

26. Poland: <0.1% (very small Muslim minority)

27. Hungary: ~0.5%

Trends:

• The Muslim population in Europe has been growing due to immigration, higher birth rates, and conversions.

• Countries like Sweden, France, and Germany have seen notable increases.

• Eastern Europe (except Russia and the Balkans) generally has smaller Muslim populations.

Muhammad foi o nome mais comum para recém-nascidos em 2024, em Inglaterra e País de Gales

 

De acordo com dados divulgados pelo Office for National Statistics (ONS) em dezembro de 2024, os nomes mais populares para recém-nascidos em Inglaterra e País de Gales em 2023 foram:​

Meninos:

1. Muhammad – 4.661 registos

2. Noah – 4.382 registos​

3. Oliver – 3.556 registos​

4. George – 3.494 registos

5. Leo – 3.416 registos​

 

Em 2023, filhos de estrangeiros nascidos em Portugal foi de 21,9 % do total

Em Portugal, o índice sintético de fecundidade tem apresentado um aumento nos últimos anos, passando de 1,35 filhos por mulher em 2021 para 1,44 em 2023. As mulheres estrangeiras têm contribuído significativamente para este crescimento. Em 2023, os nascimentos de mães estrangeiras aumentaram 33,8% em relação a 2022, representando 21,9% do total de nascimentos no país. ​

Especificamente, dados de 2024 indicam que o número médio de filhos por mulher é de 1,42 para mulheres portuguesas e 1,97 para mulheres estrangeiras. Este diferencial sugere que, em média, casais imigrantes em Portugal têm mais filhos do que os casais portugueses.

 

Número de imigrantes da Índia, Paquistão e Bangladesh em Portugal

 

Em 2023, as autoridades portuguesas registaram 17.148 cidadãos paquistaneses residentes em Portugal, com 6.869 autorizações de residência concedidas nesse ano. No entanto, estimativas da Embaixada do Paquistão apontam para uma comunidade de cerca de 30.000 indivíduos.  

Esta discrepância pode dever-se a diferenças nos critérios de contabilização ou à presença de indivíduos em processo de regularização. Embora não existam dados específicos disponíveis para 2024, a tendência sugere um crescimento contínuo da comunidade paquistanesa em Portugal.

Observa-se uma tendência crescente na imigração indiana para Portugal nos últimos anos. Em 2022, o número de cidadãos indianos residentes era de 34.232, indicando um aumento de aproximadamente 10.000 indivíduos em um ano. 

Porém, estimativas do Ministério de Relações Exteriores da Índia apontam para uma comunidade indiana em Portugal entre 104.000 e 120.000 indivíduos. Esta discrepância pode dever-se a diferenças nos critérios de contabilização, incluindo cidadãos naturalizados, estudantes e indivíduos em processo de regularização.​

Embora não existam dados específicos disponíveis para 2024, a tendência observada sugere um crescimento contínuo da comunidade indiana em Portugal

Em 2024, estimativas apontam para a presença de aproximadamente 70 mil imigrantes do Bangladesh em Portugal, incluindo tanto indivíduos com situação regularizada quanto aqueles em processo de regularização. ​

Além disso, dados de 2024 indicam que mais de 25 mil imigrantes do Bangladesh adquiriram nacionalidade portuguesa, e cerca de 50 mil são contribuintes ativos no país.

 

 

 

Portugal: Residentes estrangeiros duplicam em 10 anos

 

Em 2022, residiam no país 798.480 cidadãos estrangeiros, representando 7,6% da população total. Este número é o dobro do registado há uma década, evidenciando uma tendência crescente na imigração. ​

O fluxo migratório tem variado ao longo dos anos. Entre 2010 e 2015, observou-se uma diminuição no número de imigrantes. Contudo, desde 2015, a imigração aumentou significativamente. Por exemplo, entre 2018 e 2019, o crescimento foi superior a 110 mil estrangeiros.

Em 2022, registou-se a entrada de 118 mil imigrantes em Portugal. Este aumento contribuiu para um saldo migratório positivo, com a imigração a superar consistentemente a emigração desde 2019.

How much UK spends with migrants?

In the 2023/24 financial year, the UK Home Office spent a record £5.38 billion on asylum support, marking a 36% increase from the previous year. This expenditure primarily covered accommodation and support for asylum seekers, with a significant portion allocated to housing in hotels due to a shortage of alternative accommodations (…)  It's important to note that this figure specifically pertains to asylum support and does not encompass other migration-related costs, such as border enforcement or visa processing.

 

Finland: Teaching migrants how to behave

 

Migrants arriving in Finland are being offered classes on Finnish values and how to behave towards women. Concerned about a rise in the number of sexual assaults in the country, the government wants to make sure that people from very conservative cultures know what to expect in their new home.

Johanna is one of those energetic, animated teachers whose cheerful energy lures even the most reluctant pupil into engaging with the lesson. She uses both her hands to stress her meaning and she always softens any difficult points with a smile.

"So in Finland," she says softly, "you can't buy a wife. A woman will only be your wife if she wants to be - because here women are men's equals."

Her pupils, all recently arrived asylum seekers at this reception centre hidden away in the snowy depths of the Finnish forest, watch her carefully - and I watch them. Some of the young Iraqi men, who already speak good English and passable Finnish, nod sagely. 

Others, particularly the older men, stare at one another with raised eyebrows as Johanna's words are translated into Arabic for them. One man, hunkered down inside his black ski jacket seems to be taking notes while there's a faint smile on the lips of the only headscarfed young woman in the room.

"But you can go out to the disco with a woman here," adds Johanna brightly. "Although remember, even if she dances with you very closely and is wearing a short skirt, that doesn't mean she wants to have sex with you."

A Somali teenager pulls his woolly hat over his ears and cradles his head in his hands as if his brain can't cope with all this new information.

"This is a very liberal country," he says incredulously. "We have a lot to learn. In my country if you make sexy with a woman you are killed!" He turns to his neighbour, a Malian man of a similar age to gauge his reaction.

"It's quite amazing," the Malian nods. "In my country a woman should not go out without her husband or brother."

ohanna turns her attention to homosexuality and the Iraqi men on the back row - it's always the back row - begin to giggle and snigger.

It might seem like a bit of a pantomime, but reception centres in Finland take these voluntary manners and culture classes extremely seriously. If men arriving from very different and conservative cultures are not immediately made aware that Finland has its own set of customs and rules which must be respected, then they will never integrate, warns Johanna.

The men may groan when she tells them that Finnish men share the housework, but they no longer baulk when they see their taxi driver is a woman. Since the autumn, when Johanna first started giving these classes, female asylum seekers frequently approach her to complain that their husbands are not treating them in the Finnish way. The men are also versed in Finnish criminal law so they know exactly what to expect if they touch a woman inappropriately.

And that's why these classes are backed by the interior ministry and the police. Last autumn three asylum seekers were convicted of rape in Finland, and at the new year there were a series of sexual assaults and harassments similar to those in Cologne and Stockholm. Victims reported that the perpetrators were of Middle Eastern appearance - something Helsinki's deputy chief of police, Ilkka Koskimaki decided to go public with.

"It's difficult to talk about," he admits as we drive in a patrol car through the icy streets of the city. "But we have to tell the truth. Usually we would not reveal the ethnic background of a suspect, but these incidents, where groups of young foreign men," as he puts it, "surround a girl in a public place and harass her have become a phenomenon."

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Asylum seekers to outnumber locals in pretty English village: 'No one feels safe'

 

EXCLUSIVE: Sunday Express visited Wethersfield, where asylum seeker's anti-social behaviour is destroying locals' lives - now the migrants may outnumber the villagers.

Villagers have accused asylum seekers living at a former RAF airfield of rioting, attacking moving cars and “defecating” yards from their homes. They say they do not feel safe to walk in the streets surrounding the airbase at night due to the anti-social behaviour and feel “trapped” because they now cannot sell their homes and move away.
And they fear the situation will be made worse by a Home Office decision to house another 220 migrants at MDP Wethersfield, taking the total living there to up to 800. The village of Wethersfield in Essex only has a population of 707 people, so the move will see the migrants outnumber the householders. This is despite Sir Keir Starmer saying prior to the General Election that the airbase-turned-asylum centre “needs to close”.

Villagers have accused asylum seekers living at a former RAF airfield of rioting, attacking moving cars and “defecating” yards from their homes.

They say they do not feel safe to walk in the streets surrounding the airbase at night due to the anti-social behaviour and feel “trapped” because they now cannot sell their homes and move away. And they fear the situation will be made worse by a Home Office decision to house another 220 migrants at MDP Wethersfield, taking the total living there to up to 800.

The village of Wethersfield in Essex only has a population of 707 people, so the move will see the migrants outnumber the householders. This is despite Sir Keir Starmer saying prior to the General Election that the airbase-turned-asylum centre “needs to close”. Agricultural worker Alison Potter, 27, a lifelong resident, said: “No one feels safe. No one wants it any bigger.

“I walk back from the pubs at night and I don’t really want to anymore. I’ve got to walk a hundred yards, I shouldn’t feel like that.” Another villager Tony Clarke-Holland, 56, said: “We actually put our house on the market (after the asylum centre opened in 2023). “It wouldn’t sell, it won’t sell now. You’re kind of trapped.”

The self-employed father-of-four, who lives yards from the airbase’s wire fence, added: “We didn’t get one viewing. It’s devastating when it’s part of your retirement plan”. A local estate agent confirmed that selling property in Wethersfield has become highly challenging since the base took in asylum seekers on July 12, 2023.

The regularity of unidentified male “visitors” in their twenties and thirties pulling up outside his house around midnight, has left Tony reluctant to leave wife Sam, also 56, at home alone. “We’ve seen cars arrive and rucksacks thrown into the base. Whatever’s going on, I’m sure they’re not throwing pyjamas and cosy blankets over”, he said.

Blake Temperley, 51, who lives with his two teenage daughters in a house near Tony, said groups of 20 or more migrants regularly roam the country roads around the village, leaving its many elderly residents “scared”. He claimed he had seen migrants defecating in “plain view” outside the base on separate two occasions.

Tony, who has lived opposite the base for more than 25 years, added that during the past six months he has seen “people defecate in a field 20 yards down the road”. He added: “It’s not acceptable is it? I wouldn’t do it, you wouldn’t do it. It’s not what we expect.”

Blake says an asylum seeker broke free from a medical professional looking after him and attacked his elderly father’s moving car while one of his daughters was inside. He said: “As my dad was just driving past, only at 5mph or 10mph, just driving to get past them, the asylum seeker pulled away from the doctor and threw himself on the bonnet of the car.

“Obviously that scared my daughter and my dad. Nothing’s been done about that.” Adam Finbow, 53, who runs a 150-acre farm near the base, accused the migrants of “rioting”. He said: “Why are they getting everything and we’re getting nothing? And we’re working our a**** off to pay tax to keep them.”
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