Demographics
Main article: Demographics of Mayotte| 1958 | 1966 | 1978 | 1985 | 1991 | 1997 | 2002 | 2007 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23,364 | 32,607 | 47,246 | 67,205 | 94,410 | 131,320 | 160,265 | 186,452 | |||||
As of the July 2007 census there were 186,452 people living in Mayotte. According to the 2002 census, 64.7% of the people living in Mayotte were born in Mayotte, 3.9% were born in the rest of the French Republic (either metropolitan France or overseas France except Mayotte), 28.1% were immigrants from the Comoros, 2.8% were immigrants from Madagascar, and the remaining 0.5% came from other countries.
The main religion in Mayotte is Islam, with 97% of the population Muslim and 3% Christian. 85,000 of the total 90,000 inhabitants of the island are Comorians. The Comorians are a blend of settlers from many areas: Iranian traders, mainland Africans, Arabs and Malagasy. Comorian communities can also be found in other parts of the Comoros chain as well as in Madagascar.
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