90.5% of the population in Bangka Belitung Islands Province is Muslim.
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The Muslim population in Bangka Belitung Islands Province, as of December 31, 2024, was recorded at 1.39 million people. This figure is up by 34,434 individuals compared to the previous year's reported 1.36 million.
According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs data, the proportion of Muslims in this province reached 90.5 percent of the total population in 2024, which amounted to 1.54 million people.
Considering the distribution across the population of each region in Sumatra, the proportion of Muslims in Bangka Belitung Islands Province ranks tenth.
Meanwhile, the population of Bangka Belitung Islands Province by religion in 2024 was as follows:
* Islam 1,391,050 (90.47%)
* Buddhist 62,233 (4.05%)
* Protestant 32,469 (2.11%)
* Confucian 30,067 (1.96%)
* Catholic 19,692 (1.28%)
* Hindu 1,279 (0.08%)
Other provinces in Sumatra with the highest number of Muslim populations are North Sumatra with 10,394,827 people, Lampung with 8,732,010 people, South Sumatra with 8,723,627 people, Riau with 6,065,816 people, West Sumatra with 5,647,211 people, Aceh with 5,492,487 people, Jambi with 3,608,236 people, Bengkulu with 2,066,774 people, and Riau Islands with 1,740,897 people.
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