What It Means - Day 67

And while we're talking about fasting, let me include some statistics that I stumbled across while doing some background research about the practices of Muslims from yet another great Pew study. A month ago or so I wrote (I think) that over 82% of American Muslims fasted every day during Ramadan. This study I found from Pew was from 2013, and apparently before they questioned Americans that led to the 82% figure. This was a more global study, and apparently 92% of adult Muslims around the world (or at least the countries in the survey) fast during Ramadan, which is, even for me as a Muslim, a rather a rather amazing figure. That said, the numbers vary dramatically country to country, and I thought I would include them here.

Southeastern Europe
Kosovo 76%
Bosnia-Herzegovina 75%
Russia 56%
Albania 44%

Central Asia
Tajikistan 88%
Turkey 84%
Kyrgyzstan 53%
Uzbekistan 50%
Azerbaijan 43%
Kazakhstan 30%

Southeast Asia
Thailand 100%
Indonesia 99%
Malaysia 99%

South Asia
Pakistan 97%
Afghanistan 96%
Bangladesh 96%

Middle East - North Africa
Morocco 98%
Tunisia 96%
Egypt 95%
Palestine 94%
Iraq 94%
Lebanon 88%
Jordan 86%

Sub-Saharan Africa
Cameroon 100%
Chad 98%
Senegal 98%
Ghana 97%
Ethiopia 96%
Kenya 96%
Nigeria 96%
Niger 95%
Mali 93%
Tanzania 93%
Liberia 89%
Djibouti 88%
Mozambique 86%
Guinea Bissau 85%
Uganda 85%
Democratic Republic of the Congo 69%