Healthcare Access
Abortion in Muslim Countries 2026
% Muslim via Pew
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Country | % Muslim via Pew 2020↓ | Muslim Population | Cases in which Abortion is Permitted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Morocco | 100% | 36.4M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Afghanistan | 99.7% | 37M | To save mother's life |
 | Somalia | 99.7% | 11M | To save mother's life |
 | Iran | 99.5% | 85.7M | To save mother's life | When fetus is impaired |
 | Tunisia | 99.5% | 10.2M | Upon request |
 | Western Sahara | 99.4% | 599.6K | |
 | Iraq | 99.1% | 39M | To save mother's life |
 | Yemen | 99.1% | 26.8M | To save mother's life |
 | Mauritania | 99.1% | 4.2M | To save mother's life |
 | Mayotte | 98.6% | 253.4K | |
 | Maldives | 98.4% | 374.8K | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Niger | 98.3% | 21.1M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health | When fetus is impaired |
 | Comoros | 98.3% | 807.2K | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Turkey | 98% | 81.2M | Upon request |
 | Algeria | 97.9% | 43.7M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s mental health | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Palestine | 97.9% | 4.3M | |
 | Azerbaijan | 97.3% | 10.1M | Upon request |
 | Uzbekistan | 97.1% | 29.9M | Upon request |
 | Jordan | 97.1% | 10.2M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Djibouti | 96.9% | 1M | To save mother's life |
 | Senegal | 96.6% | 17.4M | To save mother's life |
 | Libya | 96.6% | 6.6M | To save mother's life |
 | Pakistan | 96.5% | 233M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Tajikistan | 96.4% | 9.3M | Upon request |
 | Egypt | 95.3% | 87.5M | To save mother's life |
 | Gambia | 95.3% | 2.3M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s mental health | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Mali | 94.6% | 20.5M | To save mother's life | In cases of incest or rape |
 | Turkmenistan | 93% | 5.6M | Upon request |
 | Syria | 92.8% | 15M | To save mother's life |
 | Saudi Arabia | 92.7% | 31.5M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Bangladesh | 90.8% | 150.8M | To save mother's life |
 | Sudan | 90.7% | 38.6M | To save mother's life |
 | Kyrgyzstan | 89.4% | 5.5M | Upon request |
 | Indonesia | 87% | 249.8M | To save mother's life |
 | Oman | 85.9% | 2.4M | To save mother's life |
 | Guinea | 84.6% | 10.6M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health | In cases of incest or rape | When fetus is impaired |
 | Albania | 82.1% | 1.2M | Upon request |
 | Sierra Leone | 78.5% | 6.1M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s mental health | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Brunei | 75.1% | 379.9K | To save mother's life |
 | Kazakhstan | 72% | 13.2M | Upon request |
 | Kuwait | 70.7% | 2.2M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health | When fetus is impaired |
 | Bahrain | 69.7% | 1.1M | Upon request |
 | Malaysia | 66.1% | 20.1M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s mental health | To preserve the mother’s physical health |
 | Qatar | 65.2% | 1.6M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health | When fetus is impaired |
 | Burkina Faso | 62.7% | 13.5M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health | In cases of incest or rape | When fetus is impaired |
 | Lebanon | 61.2% | 3.6M | To save mother's life |
 | Chad | 55.1% | 10.5M | To save mother's life | To preserve the mother’s physical health | When fetus is impaired |
 | Nigeria | 51.1% | 96M | To save mother's life |
 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 46.5% | 2M | |
 | India | 200M | ||
 | China | 28.1M | ||
 | United States | 3.5M | ||
 | Brazil | 767.6K | ||
 | Russia | 15M | ||
 | Ethiopia | 34.7M | ||
 | Mexico | 5.5K | ||
 | Japan | 185K | ||
 | Philippines | 5.5M | ||
 | DR Congo | 1.9M | ||
 | Vietnam | 70.9K | ||
 | Germany | 5.6M | ||
 | Tanzania | 19.4M | ||
 | Thailand | 3.6M | ||
 | United Kingdom | 4M | ||
 | France | 6.9M | ||
 | South Africa | 1.1M | ||
 | Italy | 3M | ||
 | Kenya | 5.5M | ||
 | Myanmar | 2.4M | ||
 | Colombia | 96.3K | ||
 | Uganda | 5.4M | ||
 | South Korea | 75K | ||
 | Spain | 2.5M | ||
 | Argentina | 400K | ||
 | Canada | 1.8M | ||
 | Angola | 90K | ||
 | Ukraine | 400K | ||
 | Poland | 6.8K | ||
 | Mozambique | 5.8M | ||
 | Ghana | 6.4M | ||
 | Peru | 1K | ||
 | Madagascar | 2.6M | ||
 | Ivory Coast | 11.3M | ||
 | Cameroon | 9.5M | ||
 | Nepal | 1.3M | ||
 | Venezuela | 125.2K | ||
 | Australia | 813.4K | ||
 | North Korea | 3K | ||
 | Sri Lanka | 2.1M | ||
 | Taiwan | 60K | ||
 | Malawi | 4M | ||
 | Zambia | 168.9K | ||
 | Chile | 4K | ||
 | Guatemala | 1.2K | ||
 | Romania | 136.5K | ||
 | Netherlands | 387K | ||
 | Ecuador | 1K | ||
 | Cambodia | 311K | ||
 | Zimbabwe | 100K | ||
 | Benin | 3.1M | ||
 | Rwanda | 576.1K | ||
 | Burundi | 1.2M | ||
 | Bolivia | 2K | ||
 | South Sudan | 2.5M | ||
 | Haiti | 5K | ||
 | Belgium | 879.4K | ||
 | Dominican Republic | 2K | ||
 | United Arab Emirates | 6.3M | To save mother's life | |
 | Honduras | 30K | ||
 | Papua New Guinea | 2K | ||
 | Cuba | 11.1K | ||
 | Sweden | 700K | ||
 | Czechia | 15K | ||
 | Portugal | 36.5K | ||
 | Togo | 1.6M | ||
 | Greece | 313.4K | ||
 | Israel | 1.5M | ||
 | Hungary | 50K | ||
 | Austria | 745.6K | ||
 | Switzerland | 440K | ||
 | Belarus | 72.5K | ||
 | Laos | 1K | ||
 | Hong Kong | 295.7K | ||
 | Nicaragua | 1K | ||
 | Paraguay | 1K | ||
 | Bulgaria | 861K | ||
 | Serbia | 278.2K | ||
 | Republic of the Congo | 108K | ||
 | El Salvador | 18K | ||
 | Denmark | 313.7K | ||
 | Singapore | 915.1K | ||
 | Liberia | 962K | ||
 | Central African Republic | 861.8K | ||
 | Norway | 175.5K | ||
 | Finland | 140K | ||
 | Slovakia | 10.9K | ||
 | Ireland | 71K | ||
 | New Zealand | 75.1K | ||
 | Costa Rica | 1.5K | ||
 | Panama | 25K | ||
 | Croatia | 51K | ||
 | Georgia | 398.7K | ||
 | Eritrea | 2.6M | ||
 | Mongolia | 150K | ||
 | Uruguay | 1.1K | ||
 | Puerto Rico | 1K | ||
 | Namibia | 9.7K | ||
 | Moldova | 15K | ||
 | Armenia | 1K | ||
 | Jamaica | 5.6K | ||
 | Lithuania | 3K | ||
 | Gabon | 211.9K | ||
 | Botswana | 9K | ||
 | Lesotho | 3K | ||
 | Guinea-Bissau | 911K | ||
 | Slovenia | 73.6K | ||
 | Equatorial Guinea | 71.8K | ||
 | Latvia | 2K | ||
 | North Macedonia | 590.9K | ||
 | Trinidad and Tobago | 65.7K | ||
 | Timor-Leste | 26K | ||
 | Cyprus | 275K | ||
 | Estonia | 1.5K | ||
 | Eswatini | 6K | ||
 | Mauritius | 236K | ||
 | Fiji | 58.4K | ||
 | Solomon Islands | 1.1K | ||
 | Guyana | 55K | ||
 | Bhutan | 2K | ||
 | Macau | 1K | ||
 | Luxembourg | 15K | ||
 | Suriname | 85.8K | ||
 | Montenegro | 122.8K | ||
 | Malta | 11.7K | ||
 | Cape Verde | 11.4K | ||
 | Belize | 484 | ||
 | Bahamas | 1K | ||
 | Iceland | 1K | ||
 | Guadeloupe | 2K | ||
 | Vanuatu | 1K | ||
 | Martinique | 1K | ||
 | French Guiana | 2.4K | ||
 | New Caledonia | 7K | ||
 | French Polynesia | 1K | ||
 | Barbados | 4.4K | ||
 | Samoa | 52 | ||
 | Saint Lucia | 292 | ||
 | Guam | 1K | ||
 | Kiribati | 1K | ||
 | Seychelles | 1K | ||
 | Grenada | 1K | ||
 | Micronesia | 1K | ||
 | Aruba | 1K | ||
 | Tonga | 60 | ||
 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2K | ||
 | Antigua and Barbuda | 208 | ||
 | Isle of Man | 393 | ||
 | Andorra | 2.2K | ||
 | Cayman Islands | 1K | ||
 | Dominica | 1K | ||
 | Bermuda | 1K | ||
 | Faroe Islands | 23 | ||
 | Greenland | 1K | ||
 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 1K | ||
 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1K | ||
 | American Samoa | 1K | ||
 | Northern Mariana Islands | 1K | ||
 | Gibraltar | 1.2K | ||
 | Liechtenstein | 2K | ||
 | British Virgin Islands | 1K | ||
 | Monaco | 1K | ||
 | Marshall Islands | 1K | ||
 | San Marino | 1K | ||
 | Palau | 500 | ||
 | Anguilla | 1K | ||
 | Cook Islands | 1K | ||
 | Nauru | 1K | ||
 | Wallis and Futuna | 1K | ||
 | Tuvalu | 1K | ||
 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1K | ||
 | Montserrat | 1K | ||
 | Falkland Islands | 1K | ||
 | Tokelau | 10 | ||
 | Niue | 1K | ||
| Total | 1.9B |
- Abortion laws may change at any time. Data shown should not be considered legally authoritative.
Abortion Legal Grounds Specific conditions under which abortion is legally permitted, such as saving the mother’s life, preserving health, or upon request.
Countries Where Abortion Is Allowed Upon Request
Some Muslim-majority countries permit abortion without requiring a specific medical or legal justification, typically within defined gestational limits.
These countries include Tunisia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Albania, Kazakhstan, and Bahrain.
Countries Where Abortion Is Allowed to Save the Mother’s Life
In most Muslim-majority countries, abortion is permitted only when the mother’s life is at risk, making it the most common legal standard.
These countries are Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Mauritania, Djibouti, Senegal, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan, Indonesia, Oman, Brunei, Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates.
Countries With Additional Legal Grounds for Abortion
Some Muslim-majority countries allow abortion under broader conditions, such as preserving the mother’s physical or mental health, in cases of rape or incest, or when the fetus has a serious impairment.
Such countries include Morocco, Iran, Algeria, Jordan, Maldives, Niger, Comoros, Pakistan, Gambia, Mali, Saudi Arabia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Kuwait, Qatar, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Malaysia.
