Table 1. Overall Country Rankings for 2023 Islamic Well-Being Index 4.0
Table 2. 2023 Country Rankings for the Non-Deen Maqasid (Objectives)
Notes: (*) Normalised for 51 countries. N = Newly appearing country.
Table 3. Comparing Vital Indicators for Islamic Well-Being: 2022 and 2023 MMC vs World Averages
Notes: (1) Gulf Arab countries not included. (2) 2020 (3) 2019 (4) 2020 (5) 2020 (6) 2020.
Table 4. DEEN MAQSAD 2023
Sources: Three main sources are utilised: Most are taken from The Age Gap in Religion Around the World (Washington DC: Pew Center, June 13, 2018), Appendix B data is used for Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Djibouti, Kosovo, Niger, Palestine, Senegal, and Uzbekistan. World Values Survey Wave 7 (2017-2022): Results in % by country weighted by w_weight. Study #WVS-2017-2022 v4.0 data is used for Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tunisia and Turkey. Data for Muslims in Muslim countries having large non-Muslim majorities – Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Malaysia, Mali and Nigeria – are derived from The World Muslims: Unity and Diversity (Washington DC: Pew Center, August 9, 2012), although the data is older than other sources that report for the whole population, not exclusively for Muslims. Note that this publication contains data on Sub-Sahara countries derived from Pew Center’s Sub-Saharan Africa Survey (2010) comprising 2008-2009 survey data. N/A = newly appearing country.
Table 5. LIFE MAQSAD 2023
Sources: (1) Institute off Economics and Peace, Global Peace Index 2023: Measuring Peace in a Complex World, Sydney, June 2023 https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GPI-2023-Web.pdf (Accessed September 30, 2023) (2) UN Statistical Division, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023. Special Edition, 10 July 2023 https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/ (Accessed September 30, 2023 (3) List of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate (Accessed October 2, 2023) (4) Environmental Performance Index 2022 (New Haven, CT: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy) https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/epi (Accessed June 13, 2022) Notes: SDG = UN Sustainable Development Goals. N/A = data unavailable.
Table 6. INTELLECT MAQSAD 2023
Sources: (1) Literacy rate, % aged 15 and above https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators/Series/SE.ADT.LITR.ZS (Accessed October 2, 2023) (2), Human Capital Index, World Bank, 2022, Wall Street Journal https://graphics.wsj.com/table/zumbrun_1010 (Accessed July 31, 2023) (3) World Bank, School enrolment, secondary, female (%gross). UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Data at October 24, 2022 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.ENRR.FE (Accessed October 2, 2023) (4) Reporters Without Borders, 2023 World Press Freedom Index https://rsf.org/en/2023-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-threatened-fake-content-industry (Accessed October 2, 2023). (5) Research and Development Expenditure as a proportion of GDP. http://data.uis.unesco.org/index.aspx?queryid=3684 (Accessed October 2, 2023) Note: N/A = data unavailable.
Table 7. FAMILY MAQSAD 2023
Sources: (1) World Bank, Maternal Mortality Ratio https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.MMRT (Accessed June 23, 2022) (2) World Bank, Infant Mortality Rate https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators/Series/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN (Accessed October 2, 2023) (3) Crude Marriage Rate based mainly on Wikipedia, Divorce Demography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_demography (Accessed October 2, 2023) and UN, World Marriage Data 2008. Annual Number of Marriages and Crude Marriage Rates https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/dataset/marriage/data.asp (Accessed June 19, 2022). Other Sources – Azerbaijan 2019. https://countryeconomy.com/demography/marriages/azerbaijan (Accessed October 2, 2023) Brunei 2021. https://deps.mofe.gov.bn/SitePages/Vital%20Statistics.aspx Egypt 2021. https://www.capmas.gov.eg/Admin/News/PressRelease/2022823122131_666%20e.pdf (Accessed October 2, 2023) Indonesia 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/705540/number-of-muslim-marriages-in-indonesia/ (Accessed October 2, 2023) Kuwait 2021. https://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/marriage-and-divorce-rate-increases-in-kuwait/ (Accessed October 2, 2023) Malaysia 2021. https://www.dosm.gov.my/portal-main/release-content/marriage-and-divorce-statistics-malaysia-2022 (Accessed October 2, 2023) Maldives 2019. http://statisticsmaldives.gov.mv/yearbook/2020/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/12/3.25.pdf (Accessed October 2, 2023) Morocco 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1297511/number-of-marriages-in-morocco/ (Accessed October 2, 2023) Oman 2020. https://omannews.gov.om/topics/en/80/show/106816 (Accessed June 19,2022) Qatar 2022. December 2022 Example. https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/General/QMS/QMS_PSA_108_Jan_2023_poster.pdf (Accessed October 2, 2023) Tunisia 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1185217/number-of-marriages-in-tunisia/ (Accessed October 2, 2023) Turkmenistan 2019. https://knoema.com/data/turkmenistan+marriages (Accessed June 19, 2022). For Albania, Kosovo, Turkey https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Marriage_and_divorce_statistics (Accessed October 2, 2023). For Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan 2018. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1226437/marriage-rate-worldwide-by-country/ (Accessed October 2, 2023) (4) Sources for country crude divorce rates, see CMR sources. Turkmenistan – https://knoema.com/data/turkmenistan+general-divorce-rate (Accessed June 19, 2022) (5) The CIA, World Factbook, Total Fertility Rate https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/total-fertility-rate/ (Accessed October 2, 2023)
Table 8. Wealth MAQSAD 2023
Sources: (1) World Population Review 2022, Gini Coefficient by Country 2023 https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coefficient-by-country (Accessed October 4, 2023); Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia see CIA.gov The World Factbook, Country Comparison: Gini Index Coefficient – distribution of family incomes https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/gini-index-coefficient-distribution-of-family-income/country-comparison/ (Accessed October 4, 2023); Kosovo and Syria see Wikipedia , List of Countries by Income Inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality (2) UN Statistical Division, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023. Special Edition, 10 July 2023 https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/ (Accessed September 30, 2023); Afghanistan Unemployment Rate https://www.statista.com/statistics/808214/unemployment-rate-in-afghanistan/ (Accessed October 4, 2023) and Palestinian Territory Unemployment Report, CEIC March 2023 https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/palestinian-territory-occupied/unemployment-rate (Accessed October 4, 2023) (3) Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2022 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022 (Accessed October 4, 2023) (4) World Population Review 2023 https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/ecological-footprint-by-country (Accessed October 4, 2023 (5) ICD-Refinitiv, Islamic Finance Development Report 2022: Embracing Change, pp. 12-13. https://www.refinitiv.com/en/resources/special-report/islamic-finance-development-report-2022 (Accessed October 4, 2023 Note: N/A = Data unavailable.