Muslims living in the UK

FOI reference: FOI-2025-2877

You asked

Please provide:

1) the number of Muslim men living in the UK

2) the number of Muslim women living in the UK

3) the total number of Muslims living in the UK

We said

Thank you for your freedom of information request. 

Census 2021 data shows that 1,907,371 females reported their religion as Muslim and 1,960,762 males in England and Wales.  

This question was voluntary and includes people who identified with one of 8 tick-box response options, including "No religion", alongside those who chose not to answer this question and is the religion people connect or identify with (their religious affiliation), whether or not they practise or have belief in it.

Although traditionally held on the same day, we are only responsible for the Census in England and Wales. Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) conduct their own censuses and equivalent data can be obtained from their websites.

For future reference in case it is helpful, our 'Create a custom dataset', enables users to make their own datasets combining variables from demography and migration, UK armed forces veterans, ethnic group, national identity, language and religion, Welsh language skills, housing, labour market and travel to work, education and health, disability and unpaid care.