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The following is a list of countries in the Middle East sorted by projected population. ... Rank Country (or dependent territory) 2020 projection [1] % of pop ...
Country GDP nominal billions of USD List of countries by GDP (per capita) Qatar 235.500: 82,887 Israel 530: 55,359 Cyprus 26.705: 53,705 UAE 536.829: 52,407 Kuwait 183.568
The term Middle East has also been criticised by journalist Louay Khraish and historian Hassan Hanafi for being a Eurocentric and colonialist term. [2] [3] [27] The Associated Press Stylebook says that Near East formerly referred to the farther west countries while Middle East referred to the eastern ones, but that now they are synonymous. It ...
Country Projected population (18 September 2024) Pct of total UN Population estimates Annual growth [a] Doubling time (years) [b] 1 July 2023 1 July 2022 Increment
Encyclopedia Britannica definition of Middle East. Encyclopedia Britannica stated in 2018 that "by the mid-20th century a common definition of the Middle East encompassed the states or territories of Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, and the various states and territories of Arabia proper (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain ...
India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million adherents. [23] The Middle East-North Africa region hosts 23% of the world's Muslims, and Islam is the dominant religion in every country in the region [24] other than Israel. [9]
Demographics of the Arab world. The Arab world consists of 23’ states. [citation needed] As of 2021, the combined population of all the Arab states was around 475 million people. [citation needed] The most populous Arab state is Egypt, the North African nation with a population of 109 million residents. Comoros, the Indian Ocean nation is the ...
The Middle East was the first to experience a Neolithic Revolution (c. the 10th millennium BCE), as well as the first to enter the Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) and Iron Age (c. 1200–500 BC). Historically human populations have tended to settle around bodies of water, which is reflected in modern population density patterns.