Malawi Muslim Population Is 13.8 Percent

The population of Muslims in Malawi has now reached 13.8 percent.

This is according to a final report of 2018 population and housing census which has been released on Friday 7th June 2019 in Lilongwe by National Statistical office NSO.

The report shows that there are 2.4 million Muslims out of the 17, 563, 749 Malawians.

However, in 2008 census the Muslim community comprised 12.8 percent of the total population in the country.

“There are 3.0 million Catholics, 2.5 million people belonging to CCAP church, 1.6 million of Seventh day, 4.7 million for other Christian denominations, 5.6 percent with other non-Christian denominations and 0.4 million had no religion,” shows report

On tribe the report shows that 6 million people were Chewa, 3.3 million Lomwe, 2.3 million Yao, 1.8 million Ngoni and 1.6 million Tumbuka.

In her speech, Commissioner of Statistics Mary Kanyuka said the population of 2018 is almost 4 times the size of the population of 1966 the year when the first census was conducted.

Kanyuka says the total population increased by 35 percent between 2008 and 2018.

“The population is expected to double in 2042 and the general trend is that the growth rate has remained high except for 1987 to 1998 when the country experienced mass repatriation of refugees to Mozambique,” said Kanyuka

The 2018 population and housing census was the 6th in the series of conducting censuses in Malawi and it falls under the 2020 round of world population censuses advocated by United Nations.