By 1911, the British Empire had a Muslim population of 94 million, larger than the empire's 58 million Christian population.[1] By the 1920s, the British Empire included roughly half of the world's Muslim population.[2] More than 400,000 Muslim soldiers of the British Indian Army fought for Britain during World War I, where 62,060 were killed in action,[54] and half a million Muslim soldiers of the British Indian Army fought for Britain against the Nazis in World War II.[55] David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922, stated: "we are the greatest Mahomedan power in the world and one-fourth of the population of the British Empire is Mahomedan.