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Modern Education in Islam
In general, minority religious groups often have more education than a country’s majority religious group, even more so when a large part of that minority are immigrants. This trend applies to Islam: Muslims in North America and Europe have more formal years of formal education than Christians. Furthermore, Christians have more formal years of education in many majority Muslim countries, such as in sub-Saharan Africa. However, global averages of education are far lower for Muslims than Jews, Chirstians, Buddhists and people unaffiliated with a religion. However, younger Muslims have made much larger gains in education than any of these other groups.

There is a perception of a large gender gap in majority Islam countries, but this is not always the case. In fact, the quality of female education is more closely related to economic factors than religious factors. And, although the gender gap in education is real, it has been continuing to shrink in recent years. Women in all religious groups have made much larger educational gains in recent generations than men.