One skinhead who claimed his girlfriend was killed in the bombing of the Moscow apartments in 1999, which were blamed on Chechens, told the Washington Post, The Dark ones, I hate them. [2], From 1992 to 2012, and again since 2016, Russia's death rate has exceeded its birth rate, which has been called a demographic crisis by analysts. [20], Note: Crude migration change (per 1000) is a trend analysis, an extrapolation [21], The total fertility rate is the number of children born to each woman. 14. (XIX . Demographers estimate Russia's Islamic community may account for a majority of the nation's population by mid-century. Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, an official in Russias Orthodox Church, agreed with Gainutdins forecast and predicted that there won't be any Russians left in 2050.. He said the number of Muslims was also mentioned in the population census. [23] The government of Russia paid Islamic scholars from the Ural-Volga area working among the Kazakhs[24], Islamic slavery did not have racial restrictions. The first Muslim state in the future Russian lands was Volga Bulgaria[15] "[63], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Northern Caucasus experienced an Islamic (as well as a national) renaissance. Various Russian, Caucasus, and Western historians agree on the figure of c. 500,000 inhabitants of the highland Caucasus being deported by Russia in the 1860s. Russian Shias are mainly Azeris and Tajiks from Pamir and they are small in number. Global Muslim Population A report by Pew Research claims there are 1.8 billion muslims in the world and that's set to rise to around 3 billion by 2060. Again, no scope for anti-minority or majority. The struggle to delineate the respective powers of the federal and local governments in Russia also has influenced Russian relations with the Islamic community. According to US Department of State in 2017,[3] Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population. Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of the Council of Muftis. "In Israel, the Christian number is stable because there is freedom of religion," Pastor Petra Heldt, a leading Christian scholar who has lived in Israel 40 years, told Fox News Digital. *. In Russia, there are three federal centres and we believe that this is the best option for the management of Muslim religious affairs in Russia, the mufti said. The Russian army rounded up people, driving Muslims from their villages to ports on the Black Sea, where they awaited ships provided by the neighboring Ottoman Empire. We are concerned about the safety of members of all religious communities in Ukraine, particularly the safety of those living in areas under Russia's control or occupation, including members of the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Crimean Tatar Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Evangelicals, and Baptists. Boulder, Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield Publ., Inc, 117145. In 13 of them in 2010, ethnic Russians constitute a minority: Russian is the official and the predominantly spoken language in Russia. The rector of the madrasah Ilyas hazrat Ziganshin and the first deputy head of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of the Tatars Mars Tukaev also took part in the meeting. Later most of the European and Caucasian Turkic peoples also became followers of Islam. ; Russia 2020 population is estimated at 145,934,462 people at mid year according to UN data. One of the two Russian boards has jurisdiction in European Russia and Siberia, and the other is responsible for the Muslim enclaves of the North Caucasus and Transcaspian regions. - . [37][38] Napoleon's forces faced off against Kalmyks on horseback. *, The Islamic Cultural Center of Russia, which includes a medrese (religious school), opened in Moscow in 1991. The changing demographics mean that dozens of new mosques will need to be built in Russias largest cities, Gainutdin, the Govorit Moskva radio station when asked if the, Russia Will Be One-Third Muslim in 15 Years, Chief Mufti Predicts. The meeting's pan-Islamic complexion created concern in Moscow about the possible spread of radical Islam into Russia from the new Muslim states along the periphery of the former Soviet Union. Russian Army forces were commanded into Grozny in 1994, but, after two years of intense fighting, the Russian troops eventually withdrew from Chechnya under the Khasavyurt Accord. They primarily live in cities such as Moscow, Sochi and Blagoveshchensk. ", "Russia's population undergoes largest ever peacetime decline, analysis shows", "Fertility rate, total (births per woman) - Russian Federation", "Mapped: Which country has the most immigrants? Gaynetdin has told Anadolu news agency that t. Sheikh Gaynetdin said most Muslims in the country live in the Moscow region and other major metropolitan areas such as St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. [33] In August 2012, as the country saw its first demographic growth since the 1990s, President Putin declared that Russia's population could reach 146 million by 2025, mainly as a result of immigration. The number of mosques dropped from 34,000 in the former Soviet Union before 1917 to 400 afterwards, Under Stalin, Muslim leaded were deported and sent to labor camps. In Moscow, only one community is registered as Shia, he said. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 300,000 Russian citizens and residents are estimated to have left Russia by mid-March 2022, at least 500,000 by the end of August 2022, and an additional 400,000 by early October,[citation needed] as political refugees, economic migrants, and conscientious objectors,[44][45][46][47][48] making a total of approximately 900,000. In: Pridemore, W.A. Sudan (39,585,777) Even though the nations on the list above have the most Muslims, several smaller countries have a greater concentration of Muslims than the larger ones. [39] Napoleon faced light mounted Bashkir forces. Sat, 6 Aug 2005. updated Tue, 23 Dec 2008. Note: Crude migration change (per 1000) is a trend analysis, an extrapolation, based the calculation average population change (current year minus previous) minus natural change of the current year (see table vital statistics). A census in 2002 counted 14.5 million while Russian Muslim leaders claim there are 23 million. Russia's population in 2021 hit147.2 million, the state-owned Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily reported Monday, citing census data. [94][95][96] Other branches of Christianity present in Russia include Catholicism (approx. Before 1649 Russians could be sold to Muslims under Russian law in Moscow. The Chechen separatists were internally divided between the Islamic extremists, the more moderate pro-independent Muslim Chechens and the traditional Islamic authorities with various positions towards Chechen independence. Kazan has a large Muslim population (probably the second after Moscow urban group of the Muslims and the biggest indigenous group in Russia) and is home to the Russian Islamic University in Kazan, Tatarstan. [4] This compares with a world population growth rate of 1.12% per year [5], and according to the World Christian Encyclopaedia, between 1990 and 2000, Islam received around 865,558 converts . Admission to an institute of higher education is selective and highly competitive:[105] first-degree courses usually take five years. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islam regained a prestigious, legally recognized space in Russian politics. Russia will continue to have the largest Muslim population (in absolute numbers) in Europe in 2030. More than 58 peoples, nationalities and ethnic groups have historically practised Islam,Gaynetdinsaid. The number of Muslims allowed to make pilgrimages to Mecca increased sharply after the virtual embargo of the Soviet era ended in 1990. Ruling Russia: Law, Crime, and Justice in a Changing Society. Its Muslim population is expected to rise from 16.4 million in 2010 to 18.6 million in 2030. [60] Obesity is a prevalent health issue in Russia; 61.1% of Russian adults were overweight or obese in 2016. In many of the following years, Russia had the highest total fertility rate in the world. Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. The next most common responses were Hindu (1 million) and . However, like Orthodoxy, Islam was suppressed during the Soviet Union, and many mosques were closed down during this time. In the 2021 census, there were 3.9 million Muslims (6.5%): an increase of 44% in just ten years. This contrasted with other places in Europe outside Russia where Muslims were not allowed to own Christians. In a 2007 interview, Damir Gizatullin, from the Council of Muftis, discounted the rise of hostile nationalist sentiment. What is it like to be a Muslim in Russia? Many mosques (for some estimates,[50] more than 83% in Tatarstan) were closed. Islam remains the largest non-Christian faith group at 6.5% of the population, versus 4.9% in 2011. In Dagestan there are number of Islamic universities and madrassas, notable among them are: Dagestan Islamic University, Institute of Theology and International Relations, whose rector Maksud Sadikov was assassinated on 8 June 2011.[52]. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *], Representatives attended from several newly independent Central Asian republics, from Azerbaijan, and from several autonomous jurisdictions of Russia, including the secessionist-minded autonomous republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Mosque in Noyabrsk in Siberia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where Muslims make up 18% of the total population. According to Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin, chairman of the Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation, there were 25 million Muslims in 2018, approximately 18 percent of the population. The trend of Russification has continued at different paces in the rest of Tsarist and Soviet periods, so that[citation needed] as of 2014[update] more Tatars lived outside the Republic of Tatarstan than inside it. Many of the religious leaders were poorly trained and seemed more interested in politics than religion. So the politicians see the Muslimswe are poor, we have no power. According to a 2020 estimate by Pew research center, Muslims represent 34.1% of the total population. Europe has lost almost 60% of its Jewish population over the past 50 years, mainly as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union after which many Jews . Extremist forms of Islam areg grouped together and referred to as Wahhabism in Russia. Sufi rituals, practiced to give the Chechens spiritual strength to resist foreign oppression, became legendary among Russian troops fighting the Chechens during tsarist times. According to a comprehensive survey conducted in 2012, Muslims were 6.5% of Russia's population. [9] It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 per square mile). [64] Smoking is another health issue in the country. Although Islam is a minority religion in Russia, Russia has the largest Muslim population in Europe. While Muslims in Asia have reached more than two-thirds of the world's Muslim population living on this continent. Also radical and extremist streams of Islam started taking root, initially in western (upland) Dagestan. There are currently 4 mosques in Moscow,[85] and 8,000 in the whole of Russia. There are also an additional 3 million to 4 million migrants from former Soviet states. Since Soviet times, the Russian government has divided Russia into a number of Muslim Spiritual Directorates. The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni (85%), with Shia making up 13% of the population. In the Soviet-era, one Tatar told National Geographic, "I only heard the Koran read at funerals. A study conducted in 2000 by the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership identified 1,209 mosques in the U.S. that year. Central mosque of Karachaevsk, Karachaevo-Cherkessia. [12] In 2009, Russia recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years; during the mid-2010s, Russia had seen increased population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates and increased immigration. More than 90% of Muslims in Russia adhere to the Sunni Islam. In fact, in 2020/2021, 45% of religious hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales were targeted against Muslims. Chechnya preserved its de facto independence until 1999. In 2006, countries with a Muslim majority had an average population growth rate of 1.8% per year (when weighted by percentage Muslim and population size). [117] Other major urban areas are Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and Chelyabinsk. I look around and if I dont see any obstacles, Ill go beat up this guy and maybe even kill him and Ill have as much joy as if I bought a car.. The Muslim population in the United States is projected to more than double by 2030, according to a new Pew Forum report. [54], Russia spent 5.32% of its GDP on healthcare in 2018. [97][98] There is some presence of Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism; pagan beliefs are also present to some extent in remote areas, sometimes syncretized with one of the mainstream religions. [82], Russia is a multilingual nation; approximately 100150 minority languages are spoken across the country. The Tatars had tried to rally Muslim groups in the Soviet Union against Moscow with little success. [106] Its pre-school education system is highly developed and optional,[109] some four-fifths of children aged 3 to 6 attend day nurseries or kindergartens. They are shouted down in the streets with the call, Eh, Shamil!, a reference to the 19th century Chechen leader Shamil Basayev. The hate of worker migration has become so severe it has caused a rise in Russian nationalism, and spawned groups like Movement Against Illegal Immigration.[42][43]. Muslims that live in places where they are a minority are harassed, humiliated and talked about by non-Muslims in muffled whispers. ", "Islam, Islamism, and Terrorism in the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia: A Critical Assessment", "ISLAMIC EXTREMISM IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS: WHAT KIND OF THREAT FOR REGIONAL SECURITY? In 1665 Tatars were allowed to buy Polish and Lithuanian slaves from the Russians. [108], Russia has compulsory education for a duration of 11 years, exclusively for children aged 7 to 1718. RUSSIA AND EURASIA Today "it is openly said that Russiais not only an Orthodox, but also a Muslim country. All numbers for the Russian Federation in this section do not include the Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk, which Russia annexed in September 2022 and which are currently partly under Russian military control. The number of Muslims is increasing, in part because their birthrate is higher. A Chechen refugee went to Red Square to meet his girlfriend and was slapped and stabbed through the heart by a Russian nationalist. [11], Muslims form a majority of the population of the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in the Volga Federal District and predominate among the nationalities in the North Caucasian Federal District located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea: the Circassians, Balkars, Chechens, Ingush, Kabardin, Karachay, and numerous Dagestani peoples. by Daniel Pipes. [79] There are 22 republics in Russia, who have their own ethnicities, cultures, and languages. The Muslim community in Russia continues to grow, having reached 25 million, according to the grand mufti of Russia, Sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin. [16] There are over 193 ethnic groups nationwide. . ", "Fact Check: No record of Putin's speech on Muslims", "Russian President Vladimir Putin Says No to Sharia-Fiction! [17] Until the late 18th century, the Crimean Tatars maintained a massive slave-trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, exporting about 2 million slaves from Russia and Ukraine over the period 15001700.[18]. *, In 1995 the newly established Union of Muslims of Russia, led by Imam Khatyb Mukaddas of Tatarstan, began organizing a movement aimed at improving interethnic understanding and ending Russians' lingering conception of Islam as an extremist religion. For that reason, the Russian government has provided extensive military and political support to secular leaders of the five Central Asian republics, all of whom are publicly opposed to political Islam. Around 30 percent of the Russian population will practice Islam within the next 15 years, Russias grand mufti has predicted, citing demographic trends. By 2030, the world's total Muslim population is expected to increase by 35 percent over its 2010 level, to 2.2 billion people. There are more than two billion Muslims worldwide, making Islam the second-largest religion in the world, exceeded only by Christianity. 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Encouraged by the Russian strategy of using the traditional Islamic structures and leaders against the Islamic extremists, there was a process of religious radicalisation in Chechnya and other Northern Caucasus regions. Approximately 87-95% of them are Sunni and roughly 3% are Shia and roughly 7% are non-denominational Muslims. [11] Subsequently, the nation has an ageing population, with the median age of the country being 40.3 years. Education is in Russian and Tatar. The annexation is internationally recognized only by North Korea. From the early 16th century up to including the 19th century, all of Transcaucasia and southern Dagestan was ruled by various successive Iranian empires (the Safavids, Afsharids, and the Qajars), and their geopolitical and ideological neighboring arch-rivals, on the other hand, the Ottoman Turks. They incite the crowd. 1%), Baptists, Pentecostals, Lutherans and other Protestant churches (together totalling about 0.5% of the population) and Old Believers. ", "Vladimir Putin's Speech to the Duma on Minorities", "Vladimir Putin's Supposed Speech to the Duma on Minorities and Sharia Law", "Comeback: How Islam Got Its Groove Back in Russia", "Do minorities have a place in Putin's Russia? km (6,323,482 sq. Regarded as criminals and often referred to as "blacks" or chernozhopy (black asses), they include people from Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and other regions in the Caucasus Mountains. Various estimates place the current Muslim population in Russia at between 14 million and, people, or between 10 to 14 percent of Russia's total, According to experts, Russias [Muslim] population will increase to 30 percent in a decade and a half,. Text Sources: Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Russia and Eurasia, China, edited by Paul Friedrich and Norma Diamond (C.K. The fourth wave of Russian emigration took place after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 when people began migrating from Russia in large numbers. Russian data includes occupied Crimea and Sevastopol starting in 2014, Ethnic groups in Russia of more than 1 million people in 2010, Percentage of ethnic Russians by region in 2010. BY FOYASAL KHAN JAN 06, 2023 - DAILY SABAH This illustration shows the main events, especially in politics, sports and climate change, in the Muslim The UK Muslim population rose from 4.9 percent to 6.5 percent from 2011 to 2021. Its estimated population in 2022 is 145,805,944 * equivalent to 1.87% of the total world population. [27] Muslim Turkics and Buddhist Kalmyks served as Cossacks. ", People from the Caucasus are shunned by landlords and milked for extra high bribes by authorities and officials. None of the Medium-Growth Muslim population countries will have a majority of Muslim population in the next 200 years, the most will be more than 25 per cent of the population in Italy (in 2220) and Switzerland (in 2200). Since the. According to a US State Department release and Pew research group, the population of Tajikistan is 98% Muslim. [57][58][59][60], Islam has been expanding under Putin's rule. The former is based on Bashkortostan and is led by Talgat Tadzhuiddon, who was a member of the Soviet religious bureaucracy. The Union of Muslims of Russia is the direct successor to the pre-World War I Union of Muslims, which had its own faction in the Russian Duma. Celebrations were muted for a second year in a row due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Virtually all the Muslims in Russia adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam except for some Shiites in Dagestan. [78][79] This problem is evident even within Tatarstan itself, where Tatars constitute a majority. Given the demographic changes, Muslims will represent one third (the downward estimate) and half (the upward estimate) of the Russian population . Hundreds of thousands of "dark skinned" people from the Caucasus live in Moscow, many without permits. [25], The Cossack Hetmanate recruited and incorporated Muslim Mishar Tatars. Wahhabis have been accused of stirring up trouble in Dagestan and being behind bloody clashes between rival Muslim groups there. how many muslim in russia | muslim population of Russia 2022 | Islam in Russia The Right Path of Islam 124K subscribers Share 3K views 10 months ago #russia #russiafacts. In the respective areas they ruled, in both the North Caucasus and South Caucasus, Shia Islam and Sunni Islam spread, resulting in a fast and steady conversion of many more ethnic Caucasian peoples in adjacent territories. ; Russia population is equivalent to 1.87% of the total world population. [35] Arrows, bows, and melee combat weapons were wielded by the Muslim Bashkirs. The Sreda Arena Atlas 2012 did not count the populations of two Muslim-majority federal subjects of Russia, namely. Thus, combatting Islamophobia is sacrosanct. Shireen Tahmasseb Hunter, Jeffrey L. Thomas, Alexander Melikishvili. In 1992, for example, Sheikh Ravil Gainurtdin, the imam of the Moscow mosque, complained that "our country [Russia] still retains the ideology of the tsarist empire, which believed that the Orthodox faith alone should be a privileged religion, that is, the state religion." The KGB watched over Islamic organizations. [14] The first people to become Muslims within current Russian territory, the Dagestani people (region of Derbent), converted after the Arab conquest of the region in the 8th century. " Russia's Turning Muslim, Says Mufti " is the startling headline in the Times of London today. United Ummah: We do not divide Muslims into Shias and Sunnis, for us they are all members of the United Muslim Ummah [community], Gaynetdin said. 18111913 . *, In 1992 several Muslim associations withdrew from the Caucasus muftiate and attempted to establish their own spiritual boards. [82] Russian is the second-most used language on the Internet after English,[83] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station,[84] as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Major Islamic communities are concentrated among the minority nationalities residing between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea: the Adyghs, Balkars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Cherkess, Ingush, Kabardins, Karachay, and numerous Dagestani nationalities. [115] Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city entirely within Europe, the most populous urban area in Europe,[114] the most populous metropolitan area in Europe,[115] and also the largest city by land area on the European continent. Ivan the Terrible subjugated the Tatars and forcibly converted[citation needed] some of them to Christianity. Ahmad Adil | 07.05.2021 NEW DELHI Dismissing propaganda launched by Hindu nationalists against the growing Muslim populace in India, former top bureaucrat and author Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi said Hindus will always remain in the majority in the country. After his death, his successor, Dokka Umarov, declared continuing jihad to establish an Islamic fundamentalist Caucasus Emirate in the North Caucasus and beyond. On the same day an 18-year-old Chechen was stabbed to death by skinheads outside the Kremlin. The post-communist union has formed a political party, the Nur All-Russia Muslim Public Movement, which acts in close coordination with Muslim clergy to defend the political, economic, and cultural rights of Muslims and other minorities. [111] There are ten highly prestigious federal universities across the country. [13] However, since 2020, due to excess deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's population has undergone its largest peacetime decline in recorded history. Mishar Muslims, Teptiar Muslims, service Tatar Muslims, and Bashkir Muslims joined the Orenburg Cossack Host. Population Research and Policy Review, 2008, 27: 551574. The Muslim population still grows at a faster rate than the Hindu population, but the gap between the two growth rates is narrowing fast. New laws are in place that require worker migrants to be fluent in Russian, know Russian history and laws. Dark-skinned men with beards are particularly suspected. One migrant from the south told Newsweek, "When the police see our dark skin, they stop us and fine us for not having a residence permit. [72] In a few areas, notably Dagestan and Chechnya, there is a tradition of Sunni Sufism, which is represented by Naqshbandi and Shadhili schools, whose spiritual master Said Afandi al-Chirkawi received hundreds of visitors daily. There are over 5,000 registered religious Muslim organizations,[12] equivalent to over one sixth of the number of registered Russian Orthodox religious organizations of about 29,268 as of December 2006. 56,960 (mid-year 2021); note - Russia's stateless population consists of Roma, Meskhetian Turks, and ex-Soviet citizens from the former republics; between 2003 and 2010 more than 600,000 stateless people were naturalized; most Meskhetian Turks, followers of Islam with origins in Georgia, . Living in the country today are more than 20 million Muslims, including members of more than 30 indigenous Russian nations," according to Talib Saidbaev, advisor to the Head Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia. 21 May] 1864. [5], Recognized under the law and by Russian political leaders as one of Russia's traditional religions, Islam is a part of Russian historical heritage, and is subsidized by the Russian government. Muslim population growth dropped by 4.7 percentage points from 29.3% to 24.6%, while the Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain population groups saw even larger declines. The Rosstat statistics agency said Russia's population increased 1.4 . [70][71] Turkic peoples form a large minority, and are spread around pockets across the vast nation. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit. The Union of Muslims of Russia is the direct successor to the pre-World War I Union of Muslims, which had its own faction in the Russian Duma. Population Research and Policy Review, 2000, 19: 397419. Russias Muslim-majority regions, including republics in the North Caucasus and the republic of Tatarstan, are known to have the highest birth rates in the country, similar trends worldwide. [85][86] According to the Russian Census of 2002, 142.6million across the country spoke Russian, 5.3million spoke Tatar, and 1.8million spoke Ukrainian. Asia's population increased from 1.4 billion in 1950 to 4.7 billion in. [49], Russia has encouraged or even forced people in occupied or annexed regions to become Russian citizens, a procedure known as passportization. According to Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin, chairman of the Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation, there were 25 million Muslims in 2018, approximately 18 percent of the population. Questions or comments, e-mail ajhays98@yahoo.com, Minorities - Muslims, Jews and Old Believers. The Islamic Cultural Center of Russia, which includes a madrassa (religious school), opened in Moscow in 1991. Among them are two magazines in Russian, Ekho Kavkaza and Islamskiy vestnik , and the Russian-language newspaper Islamskiye novosti , which is published in Makhachkala, Dagestan. And the first Adhan, call to worship, in Russia, was made on the lands of Dagestan, the mufti said. Only a handful of Muslim were allowed to make the haj. [88] However, various experts have claimed Russia's linguistic diversity is rapidly declining.[89][90]. According to the United Nations, Russia's immigrant population is the third-largest in the world, numbering over 11.6 million in 2016;[18] most of which are from post-Soviet states, mainly Ukrainians. Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, . Gavrilova N.S., Gavrilov L.A. He also informed the students about the events that took place in the regions on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by the Volga Bulgaria. Experts agree that economic class and education levels, particularly of the mother, are the biggest determinants of fertility and hence population growth. The number of Muslims allowed to make pilgrimages to Mecca increased sharply after the embargo of the Soviet era ended in 1991. 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