The government has published only rough estimates of the population since 1932. The estimate for 1956, for example, showed that in a total population of 1,411,416, Christians accounted for 54 percent and Muslims, 44 percent. The estimate was seriously contested because it was based on figures ...
where Qatar and Yemen has no women represents for parliament, Thailand, Lebanon and Haiti has less than 5% representation and United States is less than 20% of women for Parliament. In the justice dimension, legal discrimination is extensive in the worst-scoring countries in all regions. Legal ...
In recent decades, the “big microdata revolution” has transformed access to transcribed historical census data for social science research. However, the population records of the Ottoman Empire, spanning Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa, remained inaccessible to the big microdata ...
The vast majority of Saudi citizens are Muslim and, officially, all are. The Sunni population of Saudi Arabia is between 75% and 90%, and the remaining percentage is Shia Muslim. There are also an estimated 1,500,000 Christians in Saudi Arabia, though almost all of these are foreign worke...
Muslims constitutes about 90% of the Egyptian population, Coptic 9% and other Christians constitute 1%. In our study consanguinity was more common among Muslims than among Christians, but with no significant difference (P < 0.05). The same was also reported in Lebanon [37] and other Arab coun...
Annan said the population of all countries will continue to age substantially, but the increase will be faster in developing countries and social security systems that depend on workers to pay for those who are retired will be affected. ``Such rapid growth will require far-reaching economic and...
Virtually the entire population isSunniMuslim; Christiansconstitutemost of the rest, of whom two-thirds adhere to the Greek Orthodox church. Other Christian groups include the Greek Catholics, also called theMelchites, or Catholics of theByzantine rite, who recognize the supremacy of the Roman pope...
Beirut, Lebanon: caféPatrons seated at an outdoor café in Beirut. According to the government, the resident population of Beirut is more or less evenly divided between Muslims and Christians. In the absence of reliable statistics, however, this official supposition has never been possible to ver...
in 638ceby the Arabs, in 1103 by the Crusaders, and in 1188 bySaladin. Subsequently the town was administered by Christians fromTripoli, Muslims fromHama, and the Ottoman Turks; it came within the Frenchmandateof Syria and Lebanon in 1920. French authorities promotedautonomyfor theAlawite...
The region (or at least a part of it) is also known as the Holy Land and is held sacred among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Since the 20th century it has been the object of conflicting claims of Jewish and Arab national movements, and the conflict has led to prolonged violence and, ...