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"According to a Labour Force Survey estimate, the total number of Muslims in Great Britain in 2008 was 2,422,000, around 4 per cent of the total population.[123] Between 2004 and 2008, the Muslim population grew by more than 500,000.[123] In 2010, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life estimated 2,869,000 Muslims in Great Britain.[124] The largest age-bracket within the British Muslim population were those under the age of 4, at 301,000 in September 2008.[123] The Muslim Council of Britain and the Islamic Forum of Europe are the umbrellas organisations for many local, regional and specialist Islamic organisations in the United Kingdom, although it is disputed how representative this organisation is of British Muslims as a whole.
Muslims are by far the poorest religious community in the UK. For comparison, the median net wealth for Jews stands at £422 000, Sikhs at £229 000, Christians at £223 000 and Hindus at £206 000 while for Muslims the figure stands at £42 000.[125]
Muslims also happen to be the most disproportionately represented religious group facing arrest, trial and imprisonment, with 13.1% of prisoners being Muslims while the community represents only 4% of those aged 15 years or older within the general population.[126]"
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