The Harvest · updated Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:52 GMT
Nobody counts apostasy, and in most of the Muslim world admitting it is a crime, so no honest site can show a live number of Muslims leaving Islam. This page shows what can be measured: the published surveys, the reach of the channels taking the gospel to Muslims, and the people who say in their own words, under those channels' videos, that they have left Islam or found Christ. "The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few" (Matthew 9:37).
How the count works: we began counting on 31 October 2026. Each build reads the newest comments under the latest videos of the channels below and counts the writers who say, in the first person, that they have left Islam ("I left Islam", "I'm an ex-Muslim") or come to Christ ("I accepted Jesus", "I was baptized"). Questions, reports about other people and denials are not counted. Each person is counted once, by an anonymous code; no names or comments are stored. It is a floor, not a total: most who leave never say so anywhere.
An anonymous online survey of about 50,000 Iranians found 1.5% calling themselves Christian, 22% with no religion and 9% atheist. Only a third still identified as Shia Muslims, in a country whose government reports 99% Muslim.
GAMAAN, Iranians' Attitudes Toward Religion · June 2020
Where leaving costs nothing, about a quarter leave. Pew also finds converts into Islam roughly balance the losses in the United States.
Pew Research Center · March 2025
Across ten Arab countries the share rose in six years, to about a third in Tunisia, with the sharpest change among the under-30s.
Arab Barometer, reported by the BBC · June 2019
Open Doors ranks the Iranian church among the fastest-growing in the world, meeting in homes, fed by satellite television, Farsi Bibles and, in testimony after testimony, dreams of Jesus.
Open Doors · 2026
Islam is still the fastest-growing religion in numbers because Muslim families are young and large; Pew finds Muslims among the groups least likely to change religion where it can be measured, which is to say outside the countries where it is a crime.
Pew Research Center, How the Global Religious Landscape Changed · June 2025
In December 2000 the Libyan cleric Ahmad al-Qataani told Al Jazeera that six million African Muslims were becoming Christians every year. Nobody has substantiated the figure; it is quoted here as his alarm, not as a count.
Al Jazeera interview, widely reported · December 2000
Google's own record of how often people search for "ex muslim": worldwide over five years, and where the searches come from. A rising line in a Muslim country is the exodus asking its first question.
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