Zawji Data Report · July 2026
Muslim Marriage in the Nordics
Based on Zawji's 1,498 active members across the Nordics (as of July 2026): 73% pray all five daily prayers, 66% are men and 34% women, about one in seven (15%) is divorced and seeking remarriage, and members span more than 100 ethnicities across 47 countries — Somali (24%) and Swedish converts (5%) among the largest. Most members are aged 25–34 and based in Sweden, concentrated in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.
Reliable data on practising Muslims seeking marriage in the Nordics barely exists. So we looked at our own. The figures below are drawn from Zawji’s 1,498 active members across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and beyond, aggregated and fully anonymized. It is a first-party sample, not a census — but it is real, and it is specific.
A deeply practising base
Zawji is not a casual dating pool. Roughly seven in ten members pray all five obligatory prayers every day — the single clearest difference from mainstream apps, and the reason members describe the platform as deen-first.
The remarriage shift
About one in seven members — 15% — is divorced and looking to marry again, a group long stigmatised in cultural practice but welcomed in Islam. The Nordics are quietly becoming a home for second marriages done with dignity.
Who is looking — gender and age
Men outnumber women roughly two to one, which makes the sisters' side the scarce, decisive side of the market. Most members are between 25 and 34; more than a fifth are 35 or older.
A genuinely diaspora community
Members report more than a hundred ethnic backgrounds across 47 countries. Somalis are the largest single group at just under a quarter of the community, followed by Swedish converts, then Kurdish and Levantine backgrounds — a portrait of the modern Nordic ummah.
Where they are
Around 86% of members are in Sweden, with growing numbers across the other Nordic countries and an international tail spanning 47 countries. Within Sweden, the three big cities dominate.
Methodology
Figures are drawn from 1,498 active Zawji member profiles as of July 2026. All data is self-reported at registration, then aggregated and anonymized — no individual is identifiable, and no group smaller than five is shown. Percentages are rounded and may not sum to 100. This is a first-party sample of one platform’s members, not a population estimate for all Muslims in the region. You may cite or reference this report with attribution to Zawji.
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